From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Oct 30 15:26:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from gargoyle.apana.org.au (gargoyle-xl0.apana.org.au [210.215.3.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6187F37B4CF for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 15:26:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by gargoyle.apana.org.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA68522; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 09:26:09 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from dougy.apana.org.au(203.3.126.131), claiming to be "dougy" via SMTP by gargoyle.apana.org.au, id smtpdh68520; Tue Oct 31 09:26:03 2000 Message-ID: <089901c042c9$d01c7700$837e03cb@dougy> From: "Doug Young" To: "ML Duke" , "SILVER, MICHAEL A" Cc: , "'Keith Davey'" , "'David Johnson'" References: Subject: Re: Newbie packages Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 09:33:27 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org My 0.2cents worth ...... for those who may be interested in "real world" use of FreeBSD, some info on straightforward setup of printing to "common or garden variety" inkjet printers would be very useful. There is a brilliant commercial application (ESP Print Pro) available for the likes of Solaris / D-ux / HP-ux but to date the only vaguely similar thing I've seen specifically for FreeBSD is quite poxy by comparison. Maybe someone has managed to port ESP Print Pro to FreeBSD, although I couldn't find anything on the subject in the mailing list archives. I'm aware of the "cups" stuff but its quite limited in comparison with the ESP thingy. FWIW, I'd like to see the VNC application included as a standard package in FreeBSD .... its infinitely more usable than commercial Windows equivalents like pcAnywhere / Terminal Services / etc & has the advantage of being usable in virtually all operating systems. ----- Original Message ----- From: "ML Duke" To: "SILVER, MICHAEL A" Cc: ; "'Keith Davey'" ; "'David Johnson'" Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 7:08 AM Subject: RE: Newbie packages > > and what is worthwhile. I am still amazed that I never knew of the vnc > > port! > > This is a good example, and I bet I'm not alone: > What's vnc? > > I know, I can do a locate and read the description, > but it was some time down the road before I knew that. > > ML Duke > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message