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HP was recently made aware of a vulnerability in certain inkjet printers by a third-party researcher. HP has updates available for download to address the vulnerability. HP has updates available for download to address the vulnerability.

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LinuxWorld.com – IBM may spend over $1 billion on Linux in the next few years -- including Big Blue's current ad campaign -- but Hewlett-Packard is quietly making statements of its own to the Linux community. Applied Linear Statistical Models Michael H Kutner Pdf Printer there. Within the past two weeks, HP has made a couple of announcements that are of particular interest to Linux users: one about the release of new print drivers and one about a new print appliance. When Bruce Perens joined HP last year, the first question that many people from the Linux community wanted to ask him was, 'Where are the drivers?' That question has finally been answered. Printer Driver Hp Laserjet M1136 Mfp here. On March 20 HP released source code to drivers that provide at least basic print support (normal text and best photo quality) for some of its popular Deskjet printers, and full support for other models.

The source code release serves as testimony that Perens is not, as some have suggested, just another pretty face giving lip service to the values of the open source and free software communities. HP has made the drivers' source code available online (see for a link). The code, which works on printers as old as the Deskjet 600 and as current as the 990C, falls under a number of licenses; some drivers are licensed under the GPL, some under the LGPL, and some under a BSD-style license with the caveat that users may only employ the code with HP printers. Membuat Program Sms Gateway Dengan Php there. Linux print server appliance On the same day, HP announced the release of its HP Print Server Appliance 4200.

But in the blurb posted on HP's Website, a big part of the story was left untold. The 4200 -- codenamed Nautilus during its joint development by HP, Jeremy Allison, and the rest of the Samba team -- replaces the Jetdirect 4000 print appliance.

The HP press release states that, 'The HP Print Server Appliance 4200 supports Microsoft Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, Millennium and Unix clients.' It also stresses that it provides 'drop in' (point and print) addition of printers to a network. What it doesn't say is that the 4200 runs on the Linux 2.2 kernel and Samba. Allison told me recently that 'Nautilus' is proof positive that 'HP gets it.'

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