[nmglug] Bullseye;

[Ted Pomeroy]

NMGLUGers and Leroy, Right. Printing. The release notes indicate progress
on printing without the need for proprietary firmware for particular
printers. I have long preferred HP printers as HP was much more forthcoming
with firmware. The section (for AMD64 architecture) on printing is Here.
<https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#driverless-operation>
The goal of driverless printing and better interoperability seems to have
been reached. This is covered in the "What's New" section and I believe is
similar across all architectures. I don't print too often and I do not have
any problematic printers or scanners, so I cannot give any firsthand report
on this. Still, the progress is good news and I hope somebody will be able
to give us a report sometime this year.
Anyway I remain very happy with the upgrade and first steps with Bullseye.
Thank you, Ted P

On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 11:10 AM Ted Pomeroy <ted.pome at gmail.com> wrote:

> NMGLUGers,  in answering Leroy:
>  I am just now reading the release notes thoroughly. In the main my Xfce
> desktop is the same, with new artwork, an empty "Favorites" section of the
> app menu that I am adding to, and some settings set to the new defaults
> that I am re-tweaking. I have purged 'quodlibet' and 'exfalso' and
> installed 'audacious' and 'streamtuner2': this to get music streams from
> the Internet.
> Importantly there is a syntax change in the Debian security line in
> /etc/apt/sources.list. This is explained in the release notes on the Debian
> wiki website
> <https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/armel/release-notes/ch-information.en.html>,
> and is due to apt syntax symbols.
> As I have only had two days to explore and use the 32 bit laptop I cannot
> give a wider view just yet. I did find that there are some special versions
> of the installer and some unofficial versions include some firmware blobs
> for hardware not covered by free drivers. I had decided to give up on
> 32-bit computing, but as Debian supports it, I will do some more exploring
> on this. However, I have an even older laptop running Buster and since
> there is about a year of support I will let it be and discard it or pass it
> on at the end of a year if not sooner. The slowness of these machines and
> lack ability to play streaming video makes them subpar for even an average
> user.
> Still it is fun to explore and I am happy with the upgrade so far. Thank
> you, Ted P
>
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 9:44 AM Leroy Lints <dr.leroybrown at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hey Ted,
>>
>> What are the changes to printing that you found? I am curious.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Leroy
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 2021-08-16 at 10:53 -0600, Ted Pomeroy wrote:
>> > NMGLUGers, Bullseye is Debian 11. It was released last week and I
>> > have already had a chance to upgrade a 32 bit machine and it runs
>> > well. The laptop is circa 2010 with an Atom processor. Of course it
>> > is a bit slow, but that is not surprising. Kernel 5.10 is working
>> > well with this older laptop.
>> > I have begun to read the release notes and will study them some more.
>> > There are changes to printing which sound interesting, and some
>> > comments about the systemd logs and journals.  I will have some more
>> > time before our virtual meeting this Thursday to test the new
>> > software and make some changes in my selection of applications for
>> > various tasks.
>> > Thank you, Ted P
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