Fedora 10 Live CD services (all necessary?)

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Thu Oct 9 20:21:22 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 22:17 +0200, Till Maas wrote:
> On Thu October 9 2008, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > CUPS can autodetect network printers, which desktop users would no doubt
> > find useful, even though there may be no local printing hardware.
> 
> Cups printer autodetection seems to work fast enough, that it could be enabled 
> on demand, e.g. when kprinter is opened. I have cups always deactivated and 
> when I need to print something, I start it and the kprinter instance I start 
> directly after this, shows the network printers, that are found via cups 
> browsing. But I guess there is no infrastructure there yet, to get cups 
> started on demand.

There's some support in cups for it, but it's all tied to launchd for
OS/X.  It would definitely be nice to have someone work on making this
work for other environments

Jeremy




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