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Common Unix Printing System (CUPS)

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CUPS provides a portable printing layer for Unix(r)-based operating systems. It has been developed to promote a standard printing solution for all Unix vendors and users. CUPS provides the System V and Berkeley command line interfaces, and uses the Internet Printing Protocol ("IPP") as the basis for managing print jobs and queues. The Line Printer Daemon (LPD) Server Message Block (SMB), and AppSocket (a.k.a. JetDirect) protocols are also supported with reduced functionality. CUPS adds network printer browsing and PostScript Printer Description ("PPD") based printing options to support real world printing under UNIX. It includes an image file RIP that supports printing of image files to non-PostScript printers. A customized version of GNU Ghostscript 7.05 for CUPS called ESP Ghostscript is

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server linux setup print osx printer hardware printing networking documentation desktop_environment unix printers installation gui sysadmin

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In a Nutshell, Common Unix Printing System (CUPS)...

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has had 5,461 commits made by 9 contributors
representing 558,847 lines of code
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is mostly written in C
with a well-commented source code
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by by one developer
with stable Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 148 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in May, 2000
ending with its most recent commit about 1 month ago

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C	42%
C++	18%
HTML	13%
12 Other	27%

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30 Day Summary Mar 23 2013 — Apr 22 2013

26 Commits
1 Contributor

12 Month Summary Apr 22 2012 — Apr 22 2013

411 Commits Down -95 (18%) from previous 12 months
1 Contributors Down 0 (0%) from previous 12 months

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