Re: CUPS alternative?

2003-09-05 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 10:15:24PM -0500, Shyamal Prasad wrote: Slackware, I switched to Debian somewhere in 2000). It worked great for me, and I'm not sure CUPS is any better (yet). I still wonder why the hell samba depends on CUPS. - -- .''`.

Re: CUPS alternative?

2003-09-05 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 10:53:24PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: Are there any workable alternatives to CUPS? Any alternatives that folks actually RECOMMEND using? It would be great to run a somewhat leaner print system... Switch to lpr and

Re: CUPS alternative?

2003-09-05 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-09-05T02:53:24Z, Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But I only have 96 megs of ram, and cups seems unnecessarily lrge, given that I don't want to act assa printserver or anything. How large does it seem to be? Does it appear to be filling your memory, or does it just feel like it's

Re: CUPS alternative?

2003-09-05 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 12:56:44AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: | On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 10:15:24PM -0500, Shyamal Prasad wrote: | Slackware, I switched to Debian somewhere in 2000). It worked great | for me, and I'm not sure CUPS is any better (yet). | | I still wonder why the hell samba

CUPS alternative?

2003-09-04 Thread Matt Price
Hello, after minor difficulties I've gotten cups to work on my decrepit laptop, using a brother hl-1440 laserprinter (the printer interprets PostScript on its own, though I think it doesn't use the Adobe interpreters). Right now it seems to be working well (though for a while it was printing

Re: CUPS alternative?

2003-09-04 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Matt == Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Matt Are there any workable alternatives to CUPS? Any Matt alternatives that folks actually RECOMMEND using? It would Matt be great to run a somewhat leaner print system... lpd? Between somewhere in 1994 until about a year ago I

Re: CUPS alternative?

2003-09-04 Thread Christoph Simon
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 22:53:24 -0400 Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any workable alternatives to CUPS? Any alternatives that folks actually RECOMMEND using? It would be great to run a somewhat leaner print system... lpd or lprng are still the best solutions. They are modular,

Re: CUPS alternative?

2003-09-04 Thread Russell Shaw
Christoph Simon wrote: On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 22:53:24 -0400 Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any workable alternatives to CUPS? Any alternatives that folks actually RECOMMEND using? It would be great to run a somewhat leaner print system... lpd or lprng are still the best solutions.