to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > So. Now I'll bite off my tongue and take my ball with me. I'm off > this thread. I can't bear the overall animosity and poking of > fun at those who try to put some effort into avoiding binary > blobs. It reminds me of the poking at vegetarians "now are snails > vegetables or not?". I thought I left that behind in my teens.
And I left time wasting in my teens. It is not clear why OP would not install the vendor deb files. If s/he wants to gain security, he could do it in a different way and still use the printer. Example old Raspberry costs ~30-40$ and voila you have your dedicated printer with no network. Never mind - I wish him/her luck and perhaps s/he will update us later on the progress and findings. IMO it is not likely that one adds a spy software on such low cost device - what for? If you want to print confidentail information - there are other types of printers and setups you could do so. Doing some more usable things, could be more beneficial to him/her. Anyway this is a personal choice, but the effort seems silly, so we (I think I am not the only one) have spoken and warned him/her. regards