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, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
