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On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 11:57:06AM -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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> In my puny laptop, CUPS takes 1 min to compile, the source code is 4.4 |
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> Mb and the installed binaries are 9.3 Mb. It seems to be updated at |
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> the rate of once a month, roughly. |
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> I have never configured CUPS, *ever*, and it always just works when I |
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> connect to a new network. The printers just appear in the print |
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> dialog, and it always works. It always remembers my last selected |
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> options. |
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> To me it seems a rather sane default to always require the most used |
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> printing system in an office suite. |
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Is that right? How about it being saner to conform to standardised |
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interfaces, protocols and formats? At one time, Sendmail was the most |
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used mail server. Does anybody still use it? For that matter why |
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shouldn't we all be required to use the most used operating system? |
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Seems we have a case of "embrace and extend" working here. |
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No, the sane alternative is to use the `lpr' command, possibly augmented |
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by special arguments for particular spoolers, but always having a |
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fallback to standard `lpr'. That way, everybody's happy. Even me. ;-) |
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Do you know a decent office suite which runs under G/L? Looks like I'll |
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be needing one soon. |
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> Regards. |
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> -- |
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> Canek Peláez Valdés |
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> Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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> Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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