Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 10:01:42 -0500 From: Sam Drinkard <sam@wa4phy.net> To: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printing Question Message-ID: <3C347256.3990CC69@vortex.wa4phy.net> References: <3C339CDA.C74F940A@vortex.wa4phy.net> <20020103111011.A1591@tisys.org>
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Hi Nils,
Well, it just seems kind of like beating around the bush to have to
go thru all the print gyrations to get a pcl output. I realize
apsfilter works, and works quite well, as I use it, but if you happen to
have a printer not supported by apsfilter, then what does one do? The
whole thougt was geared towards the direction that *BSD and Linux are
headed, at least IMHO, and that is to be a "desktop appliance". I
remember when I started out with Interactive Unix, it was small, simple,
and for many things broken, but if you look at the big picture, FreeBSD
is nowhere near what it was a few years ago. So much cruft added that
people want.. like a splash screen, various other sundry utilities, and
so forth. Look at all the window managers.. tons of garbage on top of
tons of garbage, applets, etc.. sorta like windoze. However, this is
what people want, I suppose, otherwise the folks writing the code
wouldn't put it in. Not to mention all the different kinds of human
devices. Not meant to be degrading to the OS whatsoever.. just some
thoughts that I felt needed to be questioned.
Sam
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