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Hello, what’s the best way to deal with the lack of the drivers for scanners on the original website? I mean specifically Canon Pixma.Thanks in advance.

cross-posted from: lemmy.ndlug.org/post/970397

The first Ubuntu 24.04 point release won’t be released this week, as initially planned.

Ubuntu developers had been aiming to release Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS on Thursday, August 19th, but has been delayed due to ‘high-impact upgrade bugs’.

As a result, Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS is now due for release on Thursday, August 29th, two weeks later than initially planned.

Official Announcement: Ubuntu 24.04.1 point-release delayed until August 29

Tracking Document: Noble Numbat (24.04.1 LTS) Point-Release Status Tracking

I was walking home yesterday and I just happened to come across an HP LaserJet p2035n sitting by the dumpster, waiting to be taken away. I’ve never owned a printer, but this thing looked like it came from an era when such devices were made to be reliable instead of forcing DRM-locked cartridges, so I picked it up and took it with me. After getting situated I started some online research and I figure this brand of printers was manufactured from about 2008-2012, and my printer has a 2012 date.

As it turns out, this tossed printer works perfectly fine. I plugged it into power and ran a test sheet, and it prints almost perfectly. I plugged it via USB-B into my PC running Fedora 41 and immediately it gets picked up and added as usable printer. I then plugged the printer into its Ethernet port and fortunately this thing is new enough to have Bonjour (i.e. mdns) services so once again my PC just immediately finds it and can print. Awesome!

My laptop is a MacBook. While it did detect the printer over the network, it couldn’t add the printer because it couldn’t find a driver to operate it. I honestly don’t understand why that’s a problem since I assume macOS also uses CUPS just like Linux. But at any rate, I found the solution:

With CUPS on Linux I can share the printer. After configuring firewall-cmd to allow the ipp service now my iPhone and my MacBook can also print to the shared printer using the generic PostScript driver. So, in conclusion, Linux helped me 1) use this printer with no additional effort of installing drivers, 2) share this printer to devices which were not plug-and-play ready, and 3) print pics of Goku and Vegeta. As always, I love Linux.

The final issue of Linux Format, the UK’s best selling monthly Linux magazine, has gone on sale. The first issue launched in May 2000.

For me, it was perhaps simple-scan, a very simple and efficient GUI to scan documents. I used it with my Brother printer / scanner and it works like a charm. Especially since I do not scan stuff often, so a program with more complex UI would have the effect that I forget how to use it until the next time.

Audacious is an open source audio player. A descendant of XMMS.

New features and improvements:

Support titlebar dimming for Winamp skins also with GTK
Allow to never show playlist tabs also in GTK interface (#1409)
Improve controls responsiveness with the Sndio output plugin
Add Qt 6 support for the Qt Multimedia output plugin
Support many more MPRIS metadata fields
Include .adx as file extension for the FFmpeg plugin (#1466)

Bugs fixed:

Include patch version in SONAMEs again (#1408)
Fix writing tags into audio files on Windows (#1421)
Make drag and drop work with GTK on Wayland (#1423)
Fix build with GCC and Meson on macOS
Handle big-endian systems correctly with Meson
Fix excessive CPU usage with the Qt Multimedia output plugin
Enable scroll buttons for playlist tabs on macOS (#1455)

Other changes:

Lower GTK 3 version requirement from 3.22 to 3.18
Offer SHA256 checksum files for our release tarballs (#1432)
Make CDDB support optional for the Audio CD plugin (#1437)
Allow minimum speed of 0.25 for the Speed and Pitch plugin (#1447)
Prefer PulseAudio plugin over PipeWire plugin for better backwards compatibility
Specify application ID and icon name for PulseAudio
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I’m admittedly yelling at cloud a bit here, but I like package managers just fine. I don’t want to have to have a plurality of software management tools. However, I also don’t want to be caught off guard in the future if applications I rely on begin releasing exclusively with flatpak.

I don’t develop distributed applications, but Im not understanding how it simplifies dependency management. Isn’t it just shifting the work into the app bundle? Stuff still has to be updated or replaced all the time, right?

Don’t maintainers have to release new bundles if they contain dependencies with vulnerabilities?

Is it because developers are often using dependencies that are ahead of release versions?

Also, how is it so much better than images for your applications on Docker Hub?

Never say never, I guess, but nothing about flatpak really appeals to my instincts. I really just want to know if it’s something I should adopt, or if I can continue to blissfully ignore.