Subj : Re: MX Linux
To   : Gerrit Kuehn
From : Dan Clough
Date : Sat Jul 24 2021 09:40:00

-=> Gerrit Kuehn wrote to Dan Clough <=-

 GK> The repository management allows to use standard Debian packages
 GK> as well as MX-provided things and flatpaks. I didn't really use the
 GK> latter before, but it had stuff like discord and zoom available, so I
 GK> didn't have to download and install these manually.

 GK> As a follow-up: We have several HP printers here, so installing
 GK> hplip is the way to go. We have one old MFP among these that
 GK> requires the additional hplip binary plugin to allow scanning
 GK> over network (which is a very nice feature we rely on heavily).
 GK> This plugin didn't install properly, but that's probably more
 GK> HP's fault (hp-setup needs to install it). Actually, I have never
 GK> been able to get it installed without any manual interaction on
 GK> any system I tried (be it FreeBSD, Gentoo, Sabayon, MX or
 GK> whatever). On the bright side, the "usual" tricks worked here,
 GK> too, so I could just use the commandline to get everything going.
 GK> Now I have both xsane and HP's simple scanner tool using the MFP
 GK> scanner over the network.

Sweet.  I also use an HP MFP over the network for scanning, but just do 
it through the printer's "webscan" function via a browser.  Works fine 
for the simple scanning I do occasionally.

Sounds like another "+" in the MX column.  ;-)



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