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CUPS 2.0
- 0x0 12y agoI'm guessing this isn't a coincidence, with osx yosemite out as a release candidate?
- atmosx 12y agoI didn't thought about it, but you're probably spot on.
- jfindley 12y agoIt does seem to be somewhat OSX focussed - although dropping OpenSSL in favour of GNUTLS is going to be interesting, as currently I don't believe there's any sanctioned OSX build of GNUTLS.
- ClashTheBunny 12y agoI'm on Beta 4, which I think is equal to RC, and I have 2.0.0 when I run: cupsctl WebInterface=yes and go to http://localhost:631 http://localhost:631
- Aloha 12y agoI find it interesting they dropped support for HP-UX, and AIX, and that there was support to drop for OSF/1
- jychang 12y agoTo be fair the number of HP-UX and AIX machines that need to be connected to printers can probably be counted on one hand.
- alexhawdon 12y agoI had more than a handful of AIX machines serving literally thousands of printers to deal with at a previous job. AIX was hosting a POS/ERP system which was heavily dependent on printing to trade (b2b/'trade' retail business) - it was an entirely business-critical function. I never want to see another OKI ML520 again.
- jbverschoor 12y agoYup.. http://localhost:631/ http://localhost:631/ CUPS 2.0.0 CUPS is the standards-based, open source printing system developed by Apple Inc. for OS X® and other UNIX®-like operating systems.
- regularfry 12y agoBought by Apple Inc. for OS X. It predates OS X by a few years.
- sbuk 12y agoCUPS 2.0.0 doesn't though.
- kristianp 12y agoNice link! Works on my debian box (of course).
- rcarmo 12y ago"Dropped "dark wake" support on OS X, which was preventing portables from going to sleep when there was a stuck job. We now use a variation of the CUPS 1.4 sleep support to do a cleaner sleep (<rdar://problem/14323704>)" At last.
- dangayle 12y agoI have no comment about CUPS, but I will say that I find this site to be pleasant on the eyes, even if it is just bootstrap. I feel like half the reason people don't want to use Debian or GNU stuff or other free software is because the sites themselves are fugly remnants of the mid-nineties and leave much to be desired from a usability standpoint. How hard would it be to simply wrap their boring html and drop it into a bog standard bootstrap? Like, a day?
- S4M 12y agoWhy don't you volunteer to improve the design of the webpages of the OSS projects that you think would need it?
- nnnnni 12y ago"Submit a patch."
- mschuster91 12y agoBy far not every project does it like php and host their website sourcecode on a github repo.
- dangayle 12y agoHow do you know I haven't?
- pbhjpbhj 12y agoFunnily enough that page design is actually bugged on my WinXP/FF31.0. - the floating menubar part covers the top line of content. Looks like a screen-size problem (I'm on a 1024px laptop) that fixes with either smaller font-size or added padding to .breadcrumb. My point I guess is that web design is often harder than it looks. OSS projects with limited resources are better using Github or Sourceforge or similar, IMO, rather than trying to keep on top of web page design decisions to cater for ever changing UAs.
- tomkwok 12y ago* TL;DR from http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTgwMjE http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTgwMjE * >> CUPS 2.0 has greater security around its scheduler, various OS X specific improvements, systemd support, support for TLS certificate validation and policy enforcement, updates to all Linux man pages, dropped OpenSSL in favor of GNU TLS, dropped support for AIX / HP-UX / OSF/1 architectures, and various other changes.
- jzzskijj 12y agoI wish printing was harder. I have piles of slides filling my desk. Slides on paper, printed by someone else, pages that have been barely read once, their information is already outdated and the contents could have been collectively read from a white screen in the meetings. Using Linux since 1995 forced me into paperless thinking, because printing used to be hard. And these days, with all those smartphone, tablet, laptop, ereader etc. screen it should be virtually unnecessary in office environments. But still people just keep on printing everything. I hope there is some terrible fault in CUPS that makes people to think, that trying to print this is not worth the trouble</semisarcasm>
- thejosh 12y agoTechnically you could take a photo of it, process it then chuck it into a recycling bin :).
- m_mueller 12y agoDoesn't solve the waste though.
- nnnnni 12y agoI know exactly what you're talking about. I have to deal with a lot of the "I have to print email to read it!" mentality at work. We started to track the printing and discovered that a building of approximately 1300 users was printing 100000 pages a month. The worst part is that every user has at least two devices (computer and phone, sometimes tablet) and access to the full Google Apps.
- ClashTheBunny 12y agoIt's interesting that this is a problem. I would guess that it's mostly to do with the problem of interaction and eye strain associated with on-screen information. I can interact with most things on a monitor, but math is one of the things that I still need paper or a whiteboard for. I have friends that can't stare at a screen for 16 hours a day like I can, and I assume that's the other problem. Either way, I hate it when somebody comes by and has my email to them printed out and ready to "discuss" and the discussion is just yes or no.
- cbsmith 12y agoWe're going to miss you when you're gone.
- sandGorgon 12y agoI wish that the CUPS filter language would be made out of something like lua or javascript rather than binary (C) right now. But I have less than zero hope of that ever happening - both OSX and Linux use CUPS as their printing framework. There is no way, Apple (which basically owns CUPS) will allow Linux to get easy leverage on the superb printer driver ecosystem of the Mac. Before anybody else comments - printers do work on Linux. But not all features work.
- rkangel 12y agoIt's been a while, but I thought that CUPS filters were just executables with an input stream and an output stream, so you could write them in whatever you wanted?
- sandGorgon 12y agocorrect - but they are non portable. Which means that all the nice features that Mac drivers have are not available on Linux (or the printing is screwed up, etc.). I wish there was some way to make portable/obfuscated filter drivers, so that vendors could ship them and be usable on all CUPS platforms.
- turrini 12y agoCUPS work very well for the company I work for. In just one linux print server, we've got exactly 1110 printers installed (HP, Brother, Ricoh, Argox, Epson, Samsung and LexMark), all working without hassles. We're a warehouse/retailing company.
- naner 12y agoI wonder why there doesn't seem to be any implementation for AirPrint/ePrint in Linux. Seems like a good lightweight alternative to CUPS for wireless systems/devices. Also, I am curious: is CUPS still used in OSX?
- TkTech 12y agoCertainly, go to http://127.0.0.1:631/ http://127.0.0.1:631/ in your browser. CUPS is still actively developed by Apple.
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- julie1 12y agoprinter are bloatware. Old men recipe: new corporate printer tends to have a lpd daemon running accepting postscript (60%). Use rlpr and send your file directly bypassing the spooler. nmap on ldp port my help.