Do we need this crap on LWN?
Do we need this crap on LWN?
Posted Feb 21, 2007 21:34 UTC (Wed) by ms (subscriber, #41272)In reply to: Do we need this crap on LWN? by proski
Parent article: ESR's goodbye note
> I remember ESR issued a similar tirade against CUPS. CUPS got better as a result.
You mean there was a time when CUPS was worse? The mind boggles!
Posted Feb 21, 2007 22:33 UTC (Wed)
by drag (guest, #31333)
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It's the support in Gnome or KDE (and other such applications) that sucks.
If printing in OS X is easy and printing in Linux is hard, then it's the applications in Linux that such and not the CUPS service.
since, you know, both OSes use the same CUPS software.
Posted Feb 21, 2007 22:48 UTC (Wed)
by rfunk (subscriber, #4054)
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CUPS is fine.Do we need this crap on LWN?
Actually I've run into more problems with CUPS in OS X than in KDE. Though that's Do we need this crap on LWN?
because Mac people are more willing to install random binary "printer driver" software
from the printer CD.
And I absolutely hated CUPS until I started using it through KDE's print system.