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A look at Slackware 10.0A look at Slackware 10.0Posted Jun 28, 2004 20:34 UTC (Mon) by JoeF (subscriber, #4486)Parent article: A look at Slackware 10.0 lackware also still includes lprng and LILO, which have been replaced by CUPS and GRUB in most distributions I hope it continues to support lprng. Given the problems with configuring CUPS as outlined by Eric Raymond, I prefer the easy configuration of lprng...
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A look at Slackware 10.0 Posted Jun 29, 2004 5:57 UTC (Tue) by evgeny (subscriber, #774) [Link] > Given the problems with configuring CUPS as outlined by Eric Raymond, I prefer the easy configuration of lprng...Come on, you can't be serious. Putting aside the question of validity of Eric's rants in general and in this specific case, do you really say that setting up a typical (not ~$1k laser w/ postscript) printer is easier with lpr** than cups?!
A look at Slackware 10.0 Posted Jun 29, 2004 6:43 UTC (Tue) by dlang (subscriber, #313) [Link] iseing apsfilter, yes I wouldway back when (~10 years ago under SLS) when I needed to get a printer setup the printing howto suggested apsfilter and I tried it ant it 'just worked', since then I have dealt with a LOT of different printer types and with the exception of winprinters I have had no problems, I graduated from single user/single printer systems to larger setups and each step was a straightforward one (including connecting to the >10k printer/copier/fax machines in the office) I haven't put _that_ much time into trying to get CUPS working, but I have put in more time then my origional lpr setup took and when I got stuck with no clue as to what was wrong I just punted and went back to lpr
A look at Slackware 10.0 Posted Jun 29, 2004 7:06 UTC (Tue) by evgeny (subscriber, #774) [Link] > way back when (~10 years ago under SLS) when I needed to get a printer setup the printing howto suggested apsfilter and I tried it ant it 'just worked',Well, our experiences are similar - I, too, started with SLS but before coming accross apsfilter I setup a couple of lpd filters by hand. And I do remember it took not one and not two hours of reading the printing howto and tinkering with the scripts/permissions/... until it worked as expected. And believe me, if you spend an hour with cups docs you'll be able to do much more than with lpr...
A look at Slackware 10.0 Posted Jul 8, 2004 21:38 UTC (Thu) by dunne (guest, #22552) [Link] > I haven't put _that_ much time into trying to get CUPS working,> but I have put in more time then my origional lpr setup took and > when I got stuck with no clue as to what was wrong I just punted > and went back to lpr Amen to that. Would it be that difficult for CUPS to provide
A look at Slackware 10.0 Posted Jul 8, 2004 13:02 UTC (Thu) by Wol (guest, #4433) [Link] When I first tried to use cups it did all sorts of nasty things to my setup. Including scanning for network printers when I said "No you do NOT have permission to scan the network"!!!And it wouldn't let you do manual configuration until *after* it had run this automatic scan. It got ditched damn fast! Cheers,
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