Hi there, I´m thinking of replacing my ages-old HP LaserJet 1100 (PCL4, PCL5, 16 MB RAM) with a with a very affordable yet fast Samung (model ML-1665 - product info at http://ho.io/samsunglasers ) Samsung provides propietary, binary-only drivers for Linux at this location http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/DR/201001/20100121132724343/UnifiedLinuxDriver_0.86.tar.gz However, they only mention Ubuntu, no word about Fedora. I´m not very happy to use binary-only drivers, because at some point they might choose to discontinue them, or those binary drivers might have dependencies that later cannot be fulfilled (say require an older glibc version, older version of CUPS than present in future linux version, etc etc). Anyone has more detailed info on what Page Description Language do these Samsung printers use? I´m more saddened about the lack of understanding by consumers in general over the use of OPEN STANDARDS. PCL and PostScript are open standards -there are Free Software as well as propietary implementations of each-, yet, all that normal users seems to care about is that a given device "has Linux drivers". Well, propietary Linux drivers with closed protocols and languages are not very good either. The device will become a paperweight as soon as the manufacturer decides to kill it by not issuing any more linux driver updates. So, any in-depth info about what page description language do these Samsung ML-1665 printers use?. The Samsung web page is --of course-- of no help. Here, the product description: http://ho.io/samsunglasers FC -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
