From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 1 09:16:48 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A70D16A41F for ; Sat, 1 Oct 2005 09:16:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44CC743D53 for ; Sat, 1 Oct 2005 09:16:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id z31so57585nzd for ; Sat, 01 Oct 2005 02:16:46 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=nZkNG777nqDmZWmLJR06ZX9zsgaAnfYfzi3IFB7Mgu0mLRVEiwrWiyLzuO1kMmFd2SbT7D7lsL+iIJ5RmX8PgnU4m41X0TGR63PhS04XxROUuAEPnnvkw8pckt9IOopcTY0zruuEN4m1O5Io1qmsgKIhIaUPEkgi5WCYA/8u/cE= Received: by 10.36.75.12 with SMTP id x12mr6423397nza; Sat, 01 Oct 2005 02:16:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.37.20.34 with HTTP; Sat, 1 Oct 2005 02:16:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 13:16:46 +0400 From: "Andrew P." To: Eric Pretorious In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <433321D7.6060900@bsdcertification.com> Cc: mailinglists@bsdcertification.com, lofi@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CUPS, Foomatic, and HPIJS? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Andrew P." List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 09:16:48 -0000 On 10/1/05, Eric Pretorious wrote: > >From: Jared Barneck > >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.