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With Push for OS X Focus, CUPS Printing May Suffer On Other Platforms

Posted by timothy on from the long-predicted-effect dept.

CUPS is the popular open-source printing system that many projects have used successfully as a core, for desktop printing and as the basis of dedicated print servers. Reader donadony writes with word that Apple "has chosen to abandon certain Linux exclusive features, [while] continuing with popular Mac OS X features. The changeover is being attempted by Apple to set new printing standards that will not require 'drivers' in the future." However, as this message from Tim Waugh at Red Hat points out, all is not lost: "Where they are of use for the Linux environment, those orphaned features will continue to be maintained at OpenPrinting as a separate project."

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  1. Printer? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is that what those big things full of paper next to the computer were? Haven't used one in years...

  2. No! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    We must maintain, at all costs, beloved technological anachronisms like printer incompatibilities and X11. Shame on Apple! Shame on them for trying to rid computing of all its cruft.

  3. Job Security by SJHillman · · Score: 4, Funny

    If print drivers were to be eliminated across the board, half of our IT staff would no longer be needed. Fix the issues with stuck sensors, paper jams, etc and we'd be down to three people.

    1. Re:Job Security by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 2, Funny

      We will still have people useing CD drives as cup holders.

      I still remember when (IIRC) Coca-Cola sent out a Christmas e-card that announced they were providing everyone with a cup holder for Christmas - and when you clicked the button to accept, your CD tray slid out.

      Ah, the 1990s...

      --
      #DeleteChrome
  4. OK, whatever. by Medievalist · · Score: 2, Funny

    Breaking compatibility for market advantage is so noble of them, clearly we all must approve.

    1. Re:OK, whatever. by Yvan256 · · Score: 3, Funny

      “Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

      Perfected that for you.

  5. Obligatory xkcd by MurukeshM · · Score: 3, Funny

    https://www.xkcd.com/927/

    I'm not sure, but it seems relevant here.