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Is LPRng Project Still Alive?

Posted by Cliff on from the on-the-morphine-drip dept.

deeptrout asks: "The LPRng distribution hasn't been updated since mid-2004, the LPRng project website hasn't been updated since late 2004, and the LPRng mailing list has been dead since the April of 2005. What's going on? Is the project unofficially dead? Has anyone heard any news from Patric Powell, the author of LPRng? It'd be a shame if that is true. I really like LPRng's simple and yet robust reimplementation of the LPD model that allows to keep the configuration for an entire site with hundreds of hosts and dozens of printers in a fairly simple text file. What are we supposed to do now? Switch to CUPS? Something else?"

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  1. noooaaa by shaitand · · Score: 4, Funny

    "What are we supposed to do now? Switch to CUPS?"

    Simply because it has been the de facto standard for a decade? Of course not.

  2. Re:did you try mailing the mailing list, first? by Saeed+al-Sahaf · · Score: 2, Funny
    ...the LPRng mailing list has been dead since the April of 2005...

    What do you think?

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  3. Oh no, it's still going strong! by clambake · · Score: 2, Funny

    Turns out there is a small problem with DNF compatibility holding things up. Supposedly once that is fixed it'll be released the next day.

  4. Re:did you try mailing the mailing list, first? by EnronHaliburton2004 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Surviving members of a project generally have a better idea than the community at large.

    Yes, but all of the LPR developers were killed off Unix sysadmin who was driven into madness after configuring, troubleshooting, configuring, troubleshooting lpr onto his systme.

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  5. FreeBSD is maturing! by Just+Some+Guy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sorry, had to say it...

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