Re: [Sheflug] Re: Printing

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Richard wrote:

> twelve months Microsoft and other companies related to them have gone
> out of their way to make sure that only MS drivers will work with some
> printers.  Both Red Hat and SuSE are unable to provide a replacement
> for lpd which is basically a pile of doggies wotsits.

Mandrake (and some other distros AFAIK) use CUPS. It's an lpd replacement
and is pretty good by all accounts.


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