On 2018-10-05 02:19:47 Felmon Davis wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Oct 2018, J Leslie Turriff wrote:
> > On 2018-10-01 14:21:14 Kate Draven wrote:
> >
> > [ ... deleted ... ]
> >
> >> As for drivers,what do you mean? I've never had to install drivers. I
> >> HAVE had to install them in Apple and MS. That's a nightmare. Perhaps
> >> I'm mistunderstood (which is likely).
> >
> > 	The only ones I know of are the video drivers (which are optional).
> >
> > Leslie
>
> not sure what counts as a 'driver' but I have had to install some
> package for Brother printers and 'firmware' for wifi (Intel).
>
> if this is just a matter of semantics then let's not fuss.
>
> the fact remains that for some it's not all "out of the box" or
> whatever to call it.
>
> f.

	Yes, you're right about the Brother "driver," but AFAIK the only component 
that's used is the PPD file which describes the printer's capabilities.  The 
only executable that's supplied (for my HL4150CDN, at least) is something 
called 'brprintconf_hl4150cdn', which I've never (knowingly) used.

Leslie