Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 13:16:46 +0400 From: "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com> To: Eric Pretorious <epretorious@hotmail.com> Cc: mailinglists@bsdcertification.com, lofi@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CUPS, Foomatic, and HPIJS? Message-ID: <cb5206420510010216u2017d979k666bc45be25fd651@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <BAY107-F356D847D3C7D05B6161799A48F0@phx.gbl> References: <433321D7.6060900@bsdcertification.com> <BAY107-F356D847D3C7D05B6161799A48F0@phx.gbl>
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On 10/1/05, Eric Pretorious <epretorious@hotmail.com> wrote: > >From: Jared Barneck <mailinglists@bsdcertification.com> > >Subject: Re: CUPS, Foomatic, and HPIJS? > >Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:27:51 -0600 > > > >Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > > >>On Thursday, 22. September 2005 20:42, Eric Pretorious wrote: > >> > >>>Thanks, Mike. I didn't have a chance to try it out: I decided to switc= h > >>>ack to Gentoo because of the steep learning curve that comes along wit= h > >>>FreeBSD's ports & packages. > >>> > >>> > >Can I just say that moving back to Gentoo because of a "steep learning > >curve" is no just ironic, but down right funny. :-) > > Installing CUPS/HPIJS was as easy as... > > %> emerge cups ghostscript hpijs > > Portage automatically retrieves, compiles, and installs CUPS, GhostScript= , > the complete Foomatic configurator, HPIJS, etc., etc. and > _integrates_them_all_. i.e., All of the HPIJS drivers/filters and Foomati= c > drivers/filters are *already* present in the web-based CUPS interface. > > Now *that* is what I call a relatively-flat learning curve!!! > Hey, I'm glad that you find gentoo a more convenient environment, but here's my story. I've been with FreeBSD since 4.9 and use it on my desktop at home, but I also have some experience with Linux (starting with Red Hat 6.x and ksi-linux, and up to now - I use RHEL and FC3/4 on some servers, and Debian on my desktop at work). So one day a couple of weeks ago I decided to try the so much praised Gentoo on an athlon64 box at home. First I tried to make it through without any prior reading. But I was surprised at the fact that one of the most popular distro doesn't have a visually guided installation. Ok, I downloaded and printed your handbook (or what was it called) - and read it from the top to the bottom. That took me a while, all right. Now, with some distro-specific knowledge, I tried my luck again - only to find that at one point the installation fails to start X.org in order to continue :-) I won't dive into all the detail, but I somehow got all I needed to know about Gentoo in one night, and I hope that my humble being will never stumble upon this OS once again :-) Cheerz, Andrew P.
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