On 11/11/2015 03:54 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:

Am 11.11.2015 um 21:20 schrieb Fred New:

On the other hand, my >10 year-old 32-bit system (Fedora 22) is the only
place my LaserJet 4L printer works. My 64-bit systems drop control
sequences (like they don't flush the output buffer), leaving the last
page of every job sitting in printer memory. I reported the bug a few
years ago, but it got closed as WONTFIX and now I can't find it in bugzilla

we talk about a *bleeding edge distribution*

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_LaserJet_4#4L_and_4P
"The LaserJet 4 series was discontinued in the 1990s"

why in the world does somebody install a operating system released in 2015 to drive harwdare realeased 10-15 years ago and *why in the world* should recent hardware feautures ignored forever because of users with such hardware?

This should not be a big problem---the printer used to work, so we have a regression. From Fred's description, it looks like a simple issue, actually.

I agree with you that the ball is in Fred's court, though: he's the one that wants to keep his stuff running so at least he should help to diagnose and report the problem (which he did), and follow up by tracking it to some satisfactory resolution (which he didn't). It seems to me that Fred should find, reopen and pursue his bugzilla report.

On the other hand, Harald, I have to say that in this case my irony detector bent the needle. You often voice your displeasure in this forum that some setup you used for years was broken by new stuff, and yet you say

you CAN NOT HAVE both - leading edge software and legacy support forever

I just see this quoted back at you in the future :)