Blogging Ottinger (tim)Linux printing standards groups unite
A large number of people have worked very hard to make printing in Linux a tolerable situation. It’s a pretty complex system under the covers, with conversions to and from various formats, battles with vendors to stupidly and stubbornly refuse to help with linux-compatible drivers or at least specifications for linux programmers.
Print setup in linux can be a pain, but thankfully the CUPS people have done a great job of making it easier. The web based CUPS configuration utility has been a great thing for me.
Now we find that the standards groups for Linux printing are uniting and joining the Linux Standard Base. That makes 2006 a more exciting year for Linux.
Now we need some more good news from the Debian world, and some kind of good news about wireless networking drivers and configuration, especially about auto-detection and installation.
CUPS to me and many others (notably, Eric Raymond) is one of the more difficult things to set up in Linux. Hopefully this will help.
Comment by Marc — 2006-July-21 @ 10:57
I just found Ubersoft/helpdesk cartoon that seems to be relevant.
Comment by Tim — 2006-July-24 @ 09:03