Linux in Italian schools - five months later [LWN.net]

Linux in Italian schools - five months later

Posted Feb 3, 2006 4:11 UTC (Fri) by stock (guest, #5849)
Parent article: Linux in Italian schools - five months later

debian and cups? forget it.
cups and RedHat, SuSE, CentOS, Mandrake, Mandriva? a solid working
combination. period.
CUPS is the best thing which happened to UNIX printing ever. I would not
be surprised if M$ was trying to breakup cups in one or the other
mysterious method. Same holds for the C++ 'standard' so it seems :

"Visual C++ 8.0 Hijacks the C++ Standard"
http://www.informit.com/guides/content.asp?g=cplusplus&...

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060130092823950
"Microsoft's C++/CLI Language Specification is an ECMA Standard
(ECMA-372) and they are trying to fast track this document to be an
ISO standard. The problem is that the language specified is very
different from C++ and so is likely to create a great deal of
confusion. Details can be found in the UK objections, which suggest
that a name distinct from C++ be used for the proposed language."

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Linux in Italian schools - five months later

Posted Feb 3, 2006 8:20 UTC (Fri) by grouch (guest, #27289) [Link]

" debian and cups? forget it. "

Bull. I use nothing but Debian and CUPS. Samsung ML1710 -- works perfectly. Samsung ML1740 -- works perfectly. HP Photosmart 7350 -- works perfectly (from letters to glossy photos). Star NX2420 (yeah, it's a relic, but nothing beats a dot matrix for mule work) -- works perfectly. Epson Perfection 600 -- works perfectly.

I've had to set up a couple of small local businesses (sole proprietors) with Debian systems. In each case the pointy-haired boss ran out and bought one of those cheap little HP all-in-one inkjets. All I had to do was use the 'drivers' recommended by http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net (which amounted to apt-get install hpijs but you can use synaptic if you have to have something to click) and use the CUPS web admin tool (http://localhost:631/admin), choose the interface (each was USB) and a name. No problems. Surprisingly, Xsane noticed the scanner side of each right away, too.

The only problem I ever had with CUPS was trying to get a dinky Lexmark inkjet to work. I failed, but even Lexmark can't figure out how to get those things to work; they are nothing but Win-junk.