With Push for OS X Focus, CUPS Printing May Suffer On Other Platforms 267
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."
Printer? (Score:4, Funny)
No! (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.
Job Security (Score:5, 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.
OK, whatever. (Score:3, Funny)
Breaking compatibility for market advantage is so noble of them, clearly we all must approve.
Obligatory xkcd (Score:4, Funny)
https://www.xkcd.com/927/ [xkcd.com]
I'm not sure, but it seems relevant here.
Re:Job Security (Score:3, 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...
Re:OK, whatever. (Score:4, 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.