At 2:07 PM -0700 12/8/07, Predrag Punosevac wrote:
I would like to ask people who use LPRng spooling system on FreeBSD to clarify something for me.
I have never used LPRng in production, although I know the guys in our (RPI) CS department used to use it for their printing world.
I also noticed that PDQ project is completely abandoned by its creator. Also LPRng was abandoned by its creator in 2005 and then picked by somebody else.
Hmm. I haven't used LPRng in awhile, but I used to pay attention to the mailing list. The web site: http://www.lprng.com/ seems relevant, and talks about Patrick Powell as the author, and according to that web page the most recent update is 12 Sep 2007 (for LPRng-3.8.32). I'm pretty sure that Patrick has always been the driving force behind LPRng. Perhaps it is the FreeBSD port for building LPRng which has seen someone new pick it up? Patrick wouldn't be responsible for our OS-specific port.
Is FreeBSD printing essentially reduced to LPD+apsfilter for small to medium print networks and CUPS for very complex printing networks or LPRng is alive and well.
Heh. Well, I run a pretty complicated printing environment here at RPI, based on FreeBSD's lpr and a bunch of custom changes to CAP. Works well for us, but it probably wouldn't work well for most people. Hopefully I'll get back to merging some of RPI changes back into FreeBSD's lpr.
I tried to get into LPRng mailing lists but they seems are not active any more.
I'm not sure what happened to those. I used to be on them, but every once-in-awhile the mailing list software would complain that our (RPI) mail hub was rejecting mail, and would drop me from the mailing list. After the fourth or fifth time this happened, I stopped adding myself back onto the list. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Programmer or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
