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How to install Ghent University's printers on Ubuntu

Ghent University uses Ricoh Streamline NX for secure printing. The current official guide to add the printers to Ubuntu is quite outdated. It guides you to an old LPD protocol that doesn’t seem to work anymore, and it uses an old settings tool that is gone in modern versions of GNOME.

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UGent VPN from Ubuntu with open source software

Ghent University uses Cisco AnyConnect VPN and recommends the proprietary “Cisco Secure Client”. While I’m happy there is an actual supported option for Linux users, I’d rather not have more proprietary software on my machine, so I looked for alternative ways to connect.

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