Lexmark supporting Linux?!

[David Gerard]

On 3 April 2010 18:52, David Sanders <dsuzukisanders at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3 April 2010 18:46, David Sanders <dsuzukisanders at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Does anyone know if this is actually an OSS driver? From the review
>> all I can glean is that they now provide DEB and RPM packages off the
>> bat, but that's no guarantee of source at all.

> To respond to myself here. This is NOT an free-software driver, it's
> just a horrid binary package (for 32-bit only unless you want to mess
> about).
> Just because they've stuck Tux on the box it's no reason to celebrate
> such a total failure of open support. I'll stick with HP (and their
> real *Open Source* driver) thanks.


Is the Mac support via CUPS or something closed-source just to be difficult?


- d.