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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. Re:your sig by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Effect" is also a verb, and "affect" is also a noun, dumbass.

  2. Re:your sig by mabinogi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Being concerned about good use of language does not make one a troll, and correcting someone who is giving incorrect advice is absolutely not a troll. (though I'll concede that calling someone a dumbass in the process probably is).
    So your project to trap all the "grammar trolls" is rather misconceived - if you find spelling or grammar corrections distract you that much, then use your mod points when you have them to mod those posts off topic. Otherwise, don't be childish.

    Your .sig is such that it is likely to get responses from pretty much anyone that sees it, even those that would not normally bother correcting word misuse.

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