On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:21:07AM +0000, Tim Waugh wrote:
On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 18:14 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> What's the story about the PPD stuff Till is talking about there? That
> scares me the most when I read that mail. Will this be supported by a patch
> from openprinting.org? Seeing how Apple upstream is dropping features we
> need, I wonder whether the best solution wouldn't be a full-blown fork of
> CUPS, where your Avahi patches could also be merged to.
I'm not sure of the details. Here is the background:
The Printer Working Group is engaged in an effort called IPP
Everywhere¹. The goal is to have "driverless" printing by having a
small common set of imaging standards in printers, and for the printer
capabilities to be inspected using IPP.
[...]
I'm still using a very servicable HP LaserJet 5M from ca.1996.
I wonder how the glorious future will be for me?
Rich.
--
Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat
http://people.redhat.com/~rjones
virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any
software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows.
http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/