-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John Summerfield wrote: > Patrick Spinler wrote: > >> >> Another example is managing a shared, platform heterogeneous >> distributed printer database. Linux LPRng software from the >> distributors works out of the box, simply by copying a common printcap >> around. We have to compile and support LPRng for AIX ourselves, and >> disable the native qconfig. We could copy qconfig files between AIX >> boxes, but certainly not to any non-AIX platform like solaris, hp-ux, >> or linux. > > I use cups. Printers come and go on my Linux laptop, according to where > I go. CUPS servers can be configured to chat to each other, and my Linux > (and OS X) laptop runs CUPS. > > Printing on Linux works as well as wireless on OS X. >
CUPS is a great workstation printing solution. I use it on all my personal workstations. Unfortunately, in my testing, it isn't so good an enterprise printing solution. In particular, when I tested it with our database of 10K printers, printing from enterprise class hosts on about 20 subnets to central print servers on different subnets, it simply broke. It never finished distributing the printer database, and the central print servers went CPU bound and were unable to process jobs. This was two years ago, and two years is a long time in the open source world, but none of the updates I've seen from CUPS over this time have addressed these scalability issues. - -- Pat -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHHBjbNObCqA8uBswRAqGHAJ9wdmj93o2uRq4xVYtgHXqqlQGRFwCfWdTu x27YsrfarHea3fbLDh3zr20= =AOBI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
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