-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2008-09-10 at 09:01 +0200, Johannes Meixner wrote:
Hello,
On Sep 9 19:58 Carlos E. R. wrote (shortened):
I think Samsung lists on the printer box that linux is supported.
Ahh - this manufacturer who did set nice setuid-root bits on various programs with his driver install stuff to make it "just work".
Did they? Nasty :-/
Again an example how bad a "Linux support" on a hardware box might be in the end for the poor average user who does not have the knowledge to find out which driver is good and which driver is bad.
I googled and investigated a bit and I found out that it is a propietary driver, so I marked it out of my shoping list.
But - see my other mail - it seems there is nothing what Linux distributors can do (except to try to inform the users) because what a manufacturer actually does is out of our control.
Obviously. But even finding out if a printer is suported in linux from "our" pages is also difficult - and more so when the manufacturer changes model names for a printer :-( It is not good for linux. A novice can easily fall into a pithole when shopping, and a bad experience like that can turn many back into Windows. Seasoned users will endure, but new ones... - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjHtIUACgkQtTMYHG2NR9USYQCdFcwnxWhsNaYhB3l2LumlQJrw lgYAn0A1RP2pRGgl0LGM/CYbWDzZ/d9f =55nb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org