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Re: Which distributions of Linx still support lpr/lprng printing by default?

ph...@privacy.invalid (philo) — Sun, 08 nov 2009 06:13:13 UT

<snipped for brevity>
LOL
I have a whole hell of a lot of obsolete machines I fool with from time
to time...even a Kaypro.
As to Minux I did not do much more than simply install it and have a look...
but with Plan 9 I got as far as putting it on-line and fooling with Abaco
Well I refused for a long time to jump on the upgrade bandwagon...

Re: Which distributions of Linx still support lpr/lprng printing by default?

newsninespam-s...@woa.com.au (terryc) — Sun, 08 nov 2009 02:24:49 UT

Tried Opensolaris yesterday, but default is gnome on the livecd, ack!
(grind up). Need to work out how to just get a basic terminal system and
add a lighter WM like icewm.
will keep BSd in mind.
thanks

Re: Which distributions of Linx still support lpr/lprng printing by default?

newsninespam-s...@woa.com.au (terryc) — Sun, 08 nov 2009 02:20:12 UT

What did you do with it?
I should call you a bastard because the last thing I need is another
excuse not to cull all those old systems (~20) I still have in the garage
and when I saw "distributed", aaaaaargh.

Ok, I at least had the latest slack on torrent (blown away
unfortunately). Will need to see if I burnt an iso copy.

Re: Which distributions of Linx still support lpr/lprng printing by default?

boobooililili...@roadrunner.com (Van Chocstraw) — Sat, 07 nov 2009 23:32:48 UT

Try FreeBSD or Opensolaris.

Re: Which distributions of Linx still support lpr/lprng printing by default?

news2...@derith.de (Burkhard Ott) — Sat, 07 nov 2009 21:33:42 UT

Am Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:53:05 -0600 schrieb philo:
I just thought more about [link] but it's in german
language available olnly
cheers

Re: Log console boot messages

ivanma...@yahoo.com (Ivan Marsh) — Sat, 07 nov 2009 20:07:20 UT

P1 wrote:
Errors in services starting up should be logged in /var/log/messages

Re: Which distributions of Linx still support lpr/lprng printing by default?

ph...@privacy.invalid (philo) — Sat, 07 nov 2009 13:53:05 UT

<snip>
here is the link to Brain 1
looks scary
[link]

Re: Linux Mint - terminal configuring

tuuttuutt...@home.nl (tuuttuuttuut@home.nl) — Sat, 07 nov 2009 13:29:05 UT

$ ls -l /usr/bin/mint-f*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 357 2009-07-27 16:20 mint-fortune

Re: Which distributions of Linx still support lpr/lprng printing by default?

ph...@privacy.invalid (philo) — Sat, 07 nov 2009 13:27:36 UT

Hey...cool
I've fooled with Minix and Plan 9
Though Minix was really designed more as a "classroom" in which to teach
the fundamentals of operating systems...I think that Plan 9 is really
great for serious "techies" .
To the OP...I think you'd enjoy Plan 9
but to get right to the heart of your question...

Re: Which distributions of Linx still support lpr/lprng printing by default?

newsninespam-s...@woa.com.au (terryc) — Sat, 07 nov 2009 12:45:44 UT

Naah, there are plenty of unix applications that work well. It is just a
question of the platform to run them.
The generic problem infesting Linux is this myopic race to be just like
windows and to this end they are just loading the OS with so many
background processes, that it is just going to become as holey and

Re: Which distributions of Linx still support lpr/lprng printing by default?

"atec ...@hotmail.com (atec 7 7) — Sat, 07 nov 2009 09:13:41 UT

Perhaps you might look at minix ?
old style as or maybe plan 9

Re: Which distributions of Linx still support lpr/lprng printing by default?

newsninespam-s...@woa.com.au (terryc) — Sat, 07 nov 2009 05:24:29 UT

That is as useful as the rest of your post your moronic idiot. The
package is there, I have it installed but the application no longer
interact with the intelligence of the whole lpr/lprng system, so you are
left to enter a complicated string each time you want to print something.
Yep, typical egos that now infest linux and are slavishly sucking up to

Re: Which distributions of Linx still support lpr/lprng printing by default?

news2...@derith.de (Burkhard Ott) — Sat, 07 nov 2009 02:51:36 UT

Am Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:22:03 +0000 schrieb terryc:
apt-cache search lprng
Yes, do that.

Brain 1.0, awesome distro you don't need patches, updates etc.
cheers

Which distributions of Linx still support lpr/lprng printing by default?

newsninespam-s...@woa.com.au (terryc) — Fri, 06 nov 2009 00:22:03 UT

I have just found out that the arseholes behind debian decided to drop
support for lpr/lprng printing. The result is that firefox/iceweael, open
office, etc can no longer print directly to the lpr/lprng printing system.
There is a bodgy entry you can make to gtkrc that allows you to enter a
lpr command, but this totally ignores all the configuration(papersize,

Re: Log console boot messages

p...@fhri.org (P1) — Thu, 05 nov 2009 23:08:31 UT

P1 wrote:
I guess I should have stated my OS is CentOS 5.3.
There is a tool called bootlogd in Debian, which does exactly this, but
not in rhel afaik.