Norm Jacobs wrote: >> >> >>> 3. Should we use the CUPS or the LP print service >>> on Solaris? >>> (sounds like CUPS is going to be the preferred >>> print service). >>> >>> >> We have heard, although not investigated, that CUPS on Solaris fixes the >> printing Issues that we are having ... I am sure that it would handle more >> file type conversion (especially with GhostScript) than you could do >> manually with standard LP >> >> > As I am no longer with Sun, I can't say definitively, but the intention > has been to move Solaris Nevada and OpenSolaris to CUPS. It is a BIG miss for Norm not to be working inside Sun. while I can't say whether the intention changes or not from Sun's business perspective. It is nevertheless we recognize that CUPS is crucial/significant in the Open Source world, going against it is to create more works for ourselves in the longer term. > I integrated > CUPS in build 87, along with the bits necessary to switch between CUPS > and LP. LP is the default right now. CUPS was to be the default in the > future, after a few things were addressed. > There are a couple of piece of the CUPS for OpenSolaris was supposed to come in very soon, namely, a Print Manager for CUPS and auto-detection for USB printers through HAL integrated with CUPS. The former is coming in 107, but the latter is now straw with Norm is able working on it. May be I can take over some other internal processes like ARC, OSR, what do you think Norm? or may be that can go into the /contrib repository if not going through Sun.
-Ghee
