Eyal Ben-David wrote: > On Wednesday 11 September 2002 02:19, Till Kamppeter wrote: > >>LPRng is removed because CUPS contains all functionality to communicate >>with LPD/LPRng. To access a printer on a remote LPD/LPRng server choose >>"Remote LPD" in printerdrake. You need to know the server's host name or >>IP and the name of the print queue on the server. To make the local CUPS >>queues available for remote LPD/LPRng clients, activate the cups-lpd >>mini daemon by "chkconfig --add cups-lpd; service xinetd restart" or by >>using the "Services" section in the Mandrake Control Center. For the LPD >>clients your local CUPS queues have the same names under LPD as under >>CUPS. The clients can send PostScript jobs which get filtered by the >>CUPS server. >> >> Till >> > > > Hello Till, > > First let me thank you for the wonderful work at www.linuxprinting.org and > Mandrake printing software! > > Technically you are right. CUPS can do do whatever LPRng does. > but I think this is not a technical issue at all. Mandrake Linux has several > Window managers that do similar things, two versions of X11 (4.x and 3.x), > many kernels, many media players, office suites, graphic viewers etc etc. > > The point is choice and ML is doing right with all the packages mentioned > above. I think that the same argument must be applied to printing software. > You can say that only CUPS and PDQ are supported but you should give (IMO) > other people the option to select another package.
Exactly! We have chosen not to use CUPS because it's far different from standard unix printing systems. We have a team of SA's and it's nice to not have too have a "CUPS guy" when stuff doesn't work. lpd and LPRng may not have an integrated webserver and magic integration with some very cool but mostly unused internet printing standard. But LPRng is a very nightweight printing system, it's secure, not undergoing tons of changes like CUPS is, and it just plain works. It's not that big of a deal, but it still is annoying. We have how many text editors? Too many to bother counting? Printing systems? Two. I feel like a vi user that just had vi removed... after all... can't emacs do all the same stuff? -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
