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OpenOffice.org 2.2 released

Posted Apr 11, 2007 0:33 UTC (Wed) by jschrod (subscriber, #1646)
In reply to: OpenOffice.org 2.2 released by muwlgr
Parent article: OpenOffice.org 2.2 released

In the past, I configured BSD lpr, System V lp, AIX's lp variant, and lpr-ng.

CUPS is easy to configure, compared to the old systems. It has much better command-line tools than any of these other systems; it's configuration files are easier to read and to change, and that "textual interface" is not hidden at all; it's well documented.

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Posted Apr 17, 2007 18:33 UTC (Tue) by muwlgr (guest, #35359) [Link]

Then why CUPS introduction starts from "open http://localhost:631 in your browser" ? Why RedHat-derived distros still offer "system-config-printer" tool ? Both these interfaces are worse than unusable (except for simplest and most straightforward cases). CUPS docs should start from CLI-tools overview and always give CLI equivalent for every action done in "convenient" WEB/GUI. Else there would be no end of Eric Raymond-likes with their articles of you know what content.