Cups DOWN-grading?

[ginganz]

Hi Michael,

Thanks a lot for Your explications what hit the problems. But
may You please remove my EMAIL-Adress from Your PUBLIC-posting?

thanks a lot in advance

gg

> gg,
>
> On Feb 15, 2012, at 12:11 PM, ginganz  wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > is ist true, what heise.de writes at
> > http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/CUPS-1-6-unterstuetzt-Linux-schlechter-1435234.html
> >
> > and especially at
> >
> > http://www.heise.de/open/artikel/Kernel-Log-Apple-verschlankt-Cups-1435037.html
> >
> > That cups is downgrading its features for LINUX???
>
>
> Well, if I could actually read German I might be able to comment more specifically, however there are two key changes in CUPS 1.6 that these articles *might* be talking about:
>
> 1. Linux-only print backends/filters have moved out of the core CUPS distribution and are now being maintained and developed by the Open Printing project (Linux Foundation) - Linux users won't see a difference.
>
> 2. CUPS Browsing (UDP broadcasts over port 631) is no longer supported in CUPS 1.6, replaced by Bonjour (DNS-SD, ZeroConf, and mDNS).  This has been coming for a long time - it only ever worked well for small networks with well-known hostnames for the "server" systems, and UDP broadcasts over Wi-Fi have a serious performance impact on the performance/bandwidth that is available, not to mention wasted power for portable devices...  This mainly affects people that use BrowsePoll and/or implicit classes for load balancing - regular printer sharing will continue to work, just using a different protocol for finding and using the printers.
>
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