Is LPRng Project Still Alive?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday January 10, 2006 @01:42PM 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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noooaaa by shaitand · 2006-01-10 13:47 · 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.
FreeBSD is maturing! by Just+Some+Guy · 2006-01-11 02:14 · Score: 3, Funny

Sorry, had to say it...

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Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?