* Anthony Campbell <a...@acampbell.org.uk> [120203 11:21]: > Interesting: I didn't know about the purchase by Apple. I always > preferred lprng to cups but for some reason one of my laptops no longer > gave me /dev/lp0 so I was forced to use cups on that machine. I had some > problems with cups last summer (had to take the USB lead out and put it > back after each printing) but at present things seem to be more or less > all right. I still have lprng on my other machines and don't intend to > change unless I have to.
I came to Linux as a result of a disaster caused by one of the few genuine Y2K bugs, which caused M$ Word for M$-DO$ to write garbage to the data files. That event taught me the potential cost of running a proprietary system, and, in particular, a system in which data is stored in anything other than plain text. At that relatively-early date in the history of Linux (my first system was "Potato"), I was very glad to have lprng. I never recall having difficulty with lprng, and I was apprehensive about the switch to cups. Indeed, upon the acquisition of cups by Apple, and in view of my personal experience with several Macinto$h systems, I gave thought to returning to lprng. But as lprng loses popularity, maintenance becomes an issue. At this point, I think that if Apple ruins cups, the best approach to recovery would be to branch cups from the pre-Apple release, rather than to return to lprng. RLH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120203115638.GB4076@cromwell.tmiaf