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So why did Apple need CUPS?

So why did Apple need CUPS?

Posted Jul 31, 2007 10:29 UTC (Tue) by dr_lha (guest, #86)
In reply to: So why did Apple need CUPS? by ofeeley
Parent article: Apple buys cups

The simple answer to this is that the current Mac OS X printing subsystem is CUPS, and a fairly vanilla version at that. Apple basically have just bought the rights to the solution they already use in house.

Most of the Unix stuff in Mac OS X is the same stuff you use on Linux, it just has a pretty front end to make things easy (much like, for example, KDE implements a pretty front end to CUPS).


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