Interesting .....

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 7/24/07, Jerry McBride <mcbrides9 at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 July 2007 05:45:14 pm Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > On 7/24/07, Jerry McBride <mcbrides9 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 24 July 2007 08:41:35 am Ben Duncan wrote:
> > > > Was reviewing some printing issues, when I came across a little tidbit
> > > > of information.
> > > >
> > > > Seems APPLE bought out the CUPS (Yup, the printing software vendor)
> > > > back in February.
> > > >
> > > > How interesting ...
> > >
> > > Not to burst your bubble... but this is old news. For what it's worth,
> > > cups sucks... Where ever possible I use lprng. I've had so many odd
> > > problems with cups that it's a pain to maintain and so lprng gets
> > > installed.
> >
> > For a second there , i though you were Collins.  I'm not sure what
> > problems you've had with CUPS (since you were rather vague), but I've
> > never had a single issue.  I've used it on many systems, and its
> > always just plain worked.  I don't' think i've touched lprNG in at
> > least 4 years.  Which distro is still shipping lprNG?
>
> They try to stick it in Gentoo... but since it's a "have it your own way"
> distribution, it's one of the first changes I make. As for other
> distributions, I just wine like hell till I get my own way.
>
>
> As for "never had a single issue" with cups, you're either luck or know what
> you are doing. Over here, cups will just drop out of sight and require
> physical attention to get it back... Here of late, I've no time for that
> madness and so lprng is doing the workload.

All i do is point my web browser to the CUPs interface, and within a
minute or 2 everything is working, and never stops working.

>
> I gotta' ask... what was wrong with lprng that cups fixed? Answer, nothing.
> The lprng server/client just works and that is what linux is all about.

For starters, LPRng has been unmaintained for nearly 3 years.  That's
3 years of printers that have zero support.

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