On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 03:37:23 +0100, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>____/ AZ Nomad on Sunday 24 June 2007 03:14 : \____
>> On 24 Jun 2007 01:15:52 GMT, Bilge <dubious@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> ...
>>>writing your own rules in sendmail.cf: harder than DNS, but trivial cf CUPS
>>>Climbing the Eiger backwards: An avalanche _might_ give CUPS an edge
>>
>>> I mean, how can anyone take something as simple as lpd and /etc/printcap
>>>and turn it into somthing more obtuse than a sendmail configuration file?
>>>Did a group of people get together and make bets on who could come up
>>>with the most bizarre way to accomplish an already existing, simple task?
>>>At least Eric Allman had a good excuse and sendmail actually works.
>>>GTK and OpenOffice were only the first step toward making linux a free
>>>version of windows. CUPS has gotten linux close enough to make me remember
>>>why I ditched microsoft 12 years ago. Adios.
>>
>> I dunno. I've never configured CUPS via editing configuration files. I just
>> use the likes of KDE's printer configurator. Took me about five minutes to
>> set up three printers. I sure don't miss having to download 200 megabyte
>> windows "drivers" for HP printers.
>This comes from <dubious@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> . Very dubious. Indeed, front ends to
>CUPS handle everything just fine and DDK will improve things further.
Even if you don't use a heavyweight desktop like kde or gnome, cups has it's
own web based configurator. Webmin will also do the job. It's an amazingly
powerful and easy to use system.
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