Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:00:39 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS Message-ID: <20111027190039.1c2e1ef0.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <4EA989C2.6060909@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <15996.1319704110@tristatelogic.com> <1319712142.89939.YahooMailNeo@web36507.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20111027172944.75a96733.freebsd@edvax.de> <4EA989C2.6060909@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:41:38 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 27/10/2011 16:29, Polytropon wrote: > > In my opinion, CUPS is the "Windows" way of doing things, > > not the UNIX way. Hate me for having that opinion, but I > > feel to say it. > > Actually you can't blame Bill for this one. CUPS is an Apple / MacOS X > thing. I must say, it works really smoothly on my MacBook -- I just > plug in the USB cable from my printer and hit print -- but I never got > it to work properly under FreeBSD. (Mostly that was because I had the > system lpr working just fine on my old FBSD machine connected to the > printer using a parallel port. Newer hardware doesn't even have a > parallel port now.) If I remember correctly, CUPS started as a Linux project and was then incorporated into Mac OS X. Yes, no problems there, I've seen it work smoothly as intended, but not on FreeBSD so far. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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