Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd fight
On Tuesday 04 March 2014 06:55:48 Bret Busby wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Mar 2014, Bret Busby wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 19:04:20
> > From: Bret Busby <bret@busby.net>
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd fight
> >
> > On Mon, 3 Mar 2014, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> >> Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 18:31:20
> >> From: Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>
> >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> >> Subject: Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd fight
> >> Resent-Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 10:48:12 +0000 (UTC)
> >> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> >>
> >> On Monday 03 March 2014 09:49:13 Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> >>> I strongly advise that on your next buy (not necessarily MFPs)
> >>> you also consider how well that device is supported with Linux.
> >>> Bonus if the manufacturer contributes to that support. If
> >>> enough of us are doing the same it might eventually open the
> >>> eyes of manufacturers towards the benefits of FLOSS, etc.
> >>
> >> It has transpired that the AIO in question is a Samsung.
> >> Samsung are *very* good at supporting Linux. I recently had a
> >> lot of help because the suppiled driver for a Samsung AIO would
> >> not run correctly in Debian 7. As the chap who was helping
> >> said, there are a lot of version of a lot of distros. They
> >> cannot guarantee that a single driver will run with all. What
> >> they did do, was help and supply an alternative driver, and stay
> >> with me until it was running correctly on two machines.
> >>
> >> Lisi
> >
> > The responses that I got from Samsung, were that their printers
> > are not compatible with Debian Linux, after Debian Linux 5.
> >
> > I had contacted Samsung.
> See below.
There's none so blind as those who will not see.
Lisi
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> > Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 16:24:38
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> > Subject: [ANSWER]CLX-3185FW not compatible with Linux
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> > We understand that you want to know if CLX-3175FW printer is
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> > We are sorry; this printer is not compatible with Debian 6 Linux
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