[rescue] printing alternatives?

[Robert Darlington]

Yep.  I indicated on the list a few days ago that I'm running
Strongbolt.  $70 USD.

On 7/11/07, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at verizon.net> wrote:
> >From: Ronald Gilchrist <unixrescue at gmail.com>
> >Date: 2007/07/10 Tue PM 11:46:06 CDT
> >To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> >Subject: Re: [rescue] printing alternatives?
>
> >James Hartley wrote:
> >> I'm wrestling with making an old Cobalt Qube 2 into a print server (using
> >> NetBSD...).  I'm looking into printing alternatives, such as lpr, CUPS,
> >> lprNG, or Ghostscript.  Any & all comments as to configuration issues,
> >which
> >> may be better or more extensible, most actively maintained, etc. would be
> >> greatly appreciated.
> >
> >NuOnce/Bluequartz seems to be combined with CentOS into commercial product:
>
> NuOnce/Blue Quartz is a freely-available product, downloadable from the following address, and is fully usable (I've thrown it on older PIII/933 systems with 512 Meg RAM and it ran quite nicely):
>
> http://www.nuonce.net/bq-cd.php
>
> >http://www.osoffice.co.uk/strongbolt_server_appliances.html
> >
> >#35.00
>
> This offering (strongbolt) seems to be geared towards installation on an original Sun/Cobalt server and to exploit it's unique hardware (LCD, buttons, etc.) and is a commercial product.
>
> NuOnce apparently supports "replacement" hardware, like some small Tyan 1U server chassis that include their own LCD, buttons for installation/configuration like this Tyan chassis:
>
> http://tyan.com/product_barebones_detail.aspx?pid=295
>
> And offers commercial support and add-ons for their free software:
>
> http://www.nuonce.net/catalog/1122824138.html
>
> Lionel
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