Is LPRng Project Still Alive?

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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Re:noooaaa

[printman]

Actually, you *can* configure things statically with CUPS - all local printers work this way, and you can add remote printers (lpadmin -p remotename -E -v ipp://remoteserver/printers/remotename) the same way. It is just that *normally* you can let CUPS figure out what printers and servers are on your network for you...