Re: CUPS printing & LPD

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
Unruh wrote:
john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

Secondly, I am aware you can use http://localhost:631 to bring up the
CUPS printing system, but how do you do this from a networked PC
connected to the LINUX server rather than the main console itself?

Open a web browser and do
http://name.of.the.machine:631
IF you have set up cups to allow remote administration of the cups,
then away you go.

I'm sorry, but that interface is really, really bad. The
redhat-config-printer or system-config-printer tool in more recent RedHat
releases are vastly, vastly superior to the CUPS configuration tool. Eric
Raymond wrote a famous rant about it, years ago, at:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cups-horror.html

Thank you! That was a treat. I especially liked this comment in the
follow-up article:

[...] I mean, these [Unix] people worshiped at the sendmail.cf altar,
which is NOT cool in 2004. What I realized is that Linux is not a
code base. Or a distro. Or a kernel. It's an attitude. And it's
not about Open Source. It's about a bunch of people who still think
vi is a good config UI.

That last sentence sums up all Linux's problems in a nutshell.

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