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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