Till KamppeterMar 3, 2024
#OpenPrinting News February: #CUPS #Snap on #UbuntuTouch, #UBPorts, #FOSDEM , #FOSDEM2024, OpenPrinting Summit/#PWG online, #GUADEC, #GUADEC2024, #OSS & #LinuxPlumbers #LPC in Vienna, #GSoC #GSoC2024, Updates of #PrinterApplications: https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-February-2024/
OpenPrinting News - February 2024

CUPS Snap on Ubuntu Touch, FOSDEM 2024, OpenPrinting Summit/PWG online, GUADEC 2024, OSS & Plumbers in Vienna, GSoC 2024, Updates of Printer Applications

OpenPrinting
Till KamppeterAug 24, 2023

Sorry, I was too quick with the switchover of #Ubuntu 23.10 to the #Snap of #CUPS. We have decided to revert to the #Debian packages of the printing stack:

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/cups-snap-call-for-testing/21266/59?u=till-kamppeter

With the CUPS Snap as immutable printing stack I will now concentrate on #UbuntuCoreDesktop and when it is nicely working there, reconsider it on classic Ubuntu ...

But do not stop testing the CUPS Snap and the #PrinterApplications. Stay tuned for further calls for testing in the #OpenPrinting News!

CUPS Snap - Call for Testing

@fthx OK, I was very busy, thanks for reminding me. We have decided to revert to DEB-package based printing and move the switchover out to Ubuntu 24.10. We are now already long after Feature Freeze and shortly before User Interface Freeze and the desktop integration has taken longer than expected. Especially also the needs of printer setup tools for the flavors need some additional time. Also GNOME Control Center is undergoing a major UI modernization and we need to merge with it. And for prov...

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Till KamppeterMay 22, 2023
Small news article in the German c´t #ct computer magazine about #LAS2023 #LinuxAppSummit mentioning #GNOME mobile on #OnePlus One with #postmarketOS, #KDE with #UnifiedPush on #Plasma Mobile, #OpenPrinting with #CUPS 3.x and #PrinterApplications porting all free printer drivers, #Firefox #Snap performance improvement with #LZO compression, #Ubuntu 23.04 #Fedora 38 #cups-filters 2.x release party (Thanks, Keywan Tonekaboni @ktn): https://www.heise.de/news/Linux-Desktops-gemeinsam-auf-neuen-Wegen-8983436.html
App Summit 2023: Linux-Desktops gemeinsam auf neuen Wegen

Auf dem Linux App Summit 2023 stellten Entwickler unterschiedlicher Linux-Plattformen ihre Arbeit vor und diskutierten über neue Ansätze.

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