Re: Another side effect that crept in with SL 5.5

2010-08-12 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:08, Larry Linder larry.lin...@micro-controls.com wrote: I hate to say this but Linux has been around a long time and refuses to grow up.   The kids at Fedora scare me to death, due to lack to testing and maturity.   How does some thing that has worked for a long long

Re: Another side effect that crept in with SL 5.5

2010-08-12 Thread Jon Peatfield
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: snip [This does not excuse Cups dropping known behaviour in the middle of a release... I could pass the buck to Apple, but that never works.] Well the text to ps converter that Apple provide isn't the one that Fedora/RH/sl use so may not be

Re: Another side effect that crept in with SL 5.5

2010-08-11 Thread Pablo Cavero
Dear Larry, Welcome to the Real World. This is a simple Bug and you need make an downgrade of the lpr command, or may be wait for a patch. 15 years ago, I was Use XFS from the SGI, in a Red Hat 6.2, and then go up to the 7.2 Enigma Red Hat Version, nothing compare to the old school. Now, the SL

Re: Another side effect that crept in with SL 5.5

2010-08-11 Thread Mark Stodola
Larry, Although my problem might be different, it may be relevant. I've not used 5.5 (still hanging on 5.2). I've run into problems like this as well with printing in a similar fashion. I've found that the community adopted the use of texttopaps, which is horribly bugging, borderline

Re: Another side effect that crept in with SL 5.5

2010-08-11 Thread Larry Linder
I hate to say this but Linux has been around a long time and refuses to grow up. The kids at Fedora scare me to death, due to lack to testing and maturity. How does some thing that has worked for a long long time suddenly quit. We build a lot of code for embedded processors and have