Interesting .....

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 7/24/07, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/24/07, Jerry McBride <mcbrides9 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Just to emphasize Collins' viewpoint:
>
> 1. CUPS, when it's working, is great.
> 2. I haven't used LPRNG in years.
> 3. Lonni has been extremely lucky if he never encountered problems.

Or more likely, you're just unlucky.

> 4. Over the past few years (Gentoo, miscellaneous, and now
> Debian/Ubuntu), at least once per year, CUPS has been broken over
> several dot releases. Eventually they get it right, and all is
> goodness again.

Perhaps your problem is using a distro that just can't get CUPS working right?

> 5. IMO, CUPS has the poorest internal testing of any open source
> product I've encountered. They release unimaginable schlock. Even
> plain vanilla HP Laserjets stop working.

Not for me.  See above.

> 6. The latest version on Ubuntu Gutsy is surprisingly error free. For
> the very first time, I was able to add my Epson CX4200 via gui with no
> problems. Maybe they've turned over a new leaf.

You mean Ubuntu fixed their bug?

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