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A look at Slackware 10.0

A look at Slackware 10.0

Posted Jun 29, 2004 7:06 UTC (Tue) by evgeny (guest, #774)
In reply to: A look at Slackware 10.0 by dlang
Parent article: A look at Slackware 10.0

> 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...


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