Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd troll

2014-03-05 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Tue, 4 Mar 2014, Bret Busby wrote: The parrot is dead. It is not resting - it is not sleeping, it is not doing yoga, and it is not meditating. It is dead. HOWEVER, if it is a Norwegian Blue, very rare in these parts, it clearly might be PINING FOR THE FJORDS. I'm just saying let's all

Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd troll

2014-03-04 Thread Bret Busby
On Mon, 3 Mar 2014, Scott Ferguson wrote: As a single example, I have a multifunction printer, of which, the multifunctionality worked with Debian 5. Now, it is only a laser printer, running with Debian 6 - to use it to scan, I have to scan to a USB drive, and then copy the files to the

Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd troll

2014-03-04 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 3/4/14, Bret Busby b...@busby.net wrote: On Mon, 3 Mar 2014, Scott Ferguson wrote: As a single example, I have a multifunction printer, of which, the multifunctionality worked with Debian 5. Now, it is only a laser printer, running with Debian 6 - to use it to scan, I have to scan to a USB

Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd troll

2014-03-04 Thread Tom Furie
On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 04:29:52PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: The device had available, a software suite, named the Samsung Unified Print Driver. That worked with Debian Linux 5. It apparently does not work with Debian Linux 6. Something changed from Debian Linux 5, to Debian Linux 6,

Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd troll

2014-03-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 04 March 2014 09:09:56 Zenaan Harkness wrote: So you are insisting on using that particular piece of software. Which works well on Wheezy. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd troll

2014-03-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 04 March 2014 08:29:52 Bret Busby wrote: Can you show that the Samsung Unified Printer Driver, with all of its functionality, and, its encapsulated device drivers, that worked on Debian Linux 5, works on Debian Linux 6? Yes, and on 7. I have used it with great success. But you

Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd troll

2014-03-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 03/03/14 16:56, Bret Busby wrote: On Sun, 2 Mar 2014, y...@marupa.net wrote: Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 03:05:20 From: y...@marupa.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith and other such complete fabrications likely

Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd troll

2014-03-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
I agree with Scott completely (if this is not obvious from my own post), but I'd like to add: On Lu, 03 mar 14, 19:03:44, Scott Ferguson wrote: When you install you are asked if you want to include the non-free and contrib repositories. non-free is what it says it, and contrib is packages

Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd troll

2014-03-03 Thread Bret Busby
On Mon, 3 Mar 2014, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 03/03/14 16:56, Bret Busby wrote: On Sun, 2 Mar 2014, y...@marupa.net wrote: Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 03:05:20 From: y...@marupa.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith and

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2014-03-03 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/03/14 16:56, Bret Busby wrote: [...] As a single example, I have a multifunction printer, of which, the multifunctionality worked with Debian 5. Now, it is only a laser printer, running with