Date: Tue, 5 May 2020 13:04:51 +0200 From: Jacques Foucry <jacques+freebsd@foucry.net> To: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Brother HL-L2340D printer and lpd? Message-ID: <20200505110451.GA81209@mithril.foucry.net> In-Reply-To: <20200505112501.cd4d6226a1edd5b4290e2b11@sohara.org> References: <20200503171259.GA48627@admin.sibptus.ru> <20200503192444.2d700440.freebsd@edvax.de> <ec10816a-15d1-e947-e032-9ad024c044d6@pinyon.org> <20200503185521.GB52059@admin.sibptus.ru> <20200504085053.9bcf8d9d.freebsd@edvax.de> <9992c5ca-fdac-7a62-b0e4-d33afaeb042d@panix.com> <20200505095657.b436931b.freebsd@edvax.de> <20200505054729.00000035@seibercom.net> <20200505112501.cd4d6226a1edd5b4290e2b11@sohara.org>
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Le mardi 05 mai 2020 à 11:25:01 (+0100), Steve O'Hara-Smith à écrit: > On Tue, 5 May 2020 05:47:29 -0400 > Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net> wrote: > > > In any case, this will only assist you with printing. All of the other > > functions that are readily available on a Windows machine are usually > > cloaked away from FreeBSD operators. Brother does supply some utilities > > for Linux and Debian, but not FreeBSD. > > Right here you describe the crux of the problem - Windows does not > support a million printers and scanners perfectly, manufacturers go to great > lengths to support Windows, some lengths to support IOS and Android, lesser > lengths to support Linux desktops and generally no effort whatsoever to > support anything else. > > This is of course a perfectly valid commercial standpoint. > > The sad truth is that if you use something that the printer > manufacturers are not willing to go to great lengths to support then you > are best looking to more expensive equipment that supports documented > standards and using it, or doing what I do to support a Brother inkjet and > run a CUPS server under Linux (well actually a jail with a Linux userland) > and CUPS clients on the FreeBSD boxes. > > Yes it is a pain - but suggesting that the FOSS community has put > insufficient effort into achieving the impossible is not reasonable. If the > market is too small to be worthwhile for the manufacturers to support and > they are unwilling to release detailed documentation then nobody can do > anything about it. In fact the "Linux community" reproduice de same errors as the "windwos commutiy" does. We (the FreeBSD users) are, as you saird a very small part of unix user. And many, many people knows "Linux" but does not إave a single idea about "Unix". Worst, some knows "debian" and that all, they cannot use another distro so let imagine using another Unix like system (*BSD, Solaris, AІX, HP-UX or even OSX). That the same for manufæcturer, they are mainћtream, Microsoft's products first, then Apple's products, may be Linux product… and that all. > > The seamless environment for printing, scanning, faxing and email > integration can be achieved but it is not effortless. -- Jacques Foucry
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