On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, John Gilmore wrote: > Note that much of the demand for printing comes from G1G1 users, who > won't have a School Server (and are unlikely to have another Linux > machine handy). > > I think the answer is probably to run the CUPS daemon when we need it, > and kill it off when we don't (a la inetd). > > As with everything else, I think we should strongly hew to what > already works and what's already had tens of thousands of manhours > invested in it, rather than reinventing the wheel and the GUI. CUPS > is administered through a browser, we have a browser, are we almost > done yet? :-)
if we have the ability to send to a IPP server on a remote system, that 'remote system' can be a $49 ethernet to parallel/USB device (with the driver in the laptop). I also suspect that many of the G1G1 users will have a Linux machine available. David Lang _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
