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1. Project: Presto: Automatic Printing Configuration
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OpenSolaris Project: Presto: Automatic Printing Configuration

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Introduction

Presto aims to improve Solaris printing approachability by automatically (or as automatically as possible) discovering and configuring access to directly attached, network attached, and remotely served printers. Key goals include:

• Provide users with a more hands off/automatic mechanism for using printers that they plug into their host or local network.
• Provide a mechanism for automatically recognizing and configuring access to existing print queues as they move across networks.
• Use SMF for managing network queue discovery/advertising services
• Tighter desktop integration.

Status

We are working on all aspects of this project right now. We have fleshed out some of the basics of the project, but still have a lot of work to be done on design. As we are working on this, we are prototyping various components to figure out what works and what doesn't. This also gives us a means of exchanging ideas in a more concrete manner. Access to the schedule, documents, prototype, and and code are linked below.

Prototype

An evolving prototype of Presto related functionality is available for download and installation from http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/presto/Prototype/. Follow this link for information about download, installation, and usage.

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Schedule

Key milestones will be maintained on this page, with a more detailed schedule linked here.

Milestone	Projected Completion	Actual Completion	Notes
TBD

Documents

You can find Presto related documents here.

Code Access

Source code for elements of Presto will be available from Subversion on OpenSolaris.org shortly.

Blogs

gheet - GUADEC - Istanbul

Jul 3, 10:08 PM

I will be flying out to Istanbul on Sunday mid-day with the whole bunch of Sun people from Dublin. Should arrive late Sunday night. Stay in one of the recommended hotel, but do not have the details ...

gheet - 13th Anniversary

Jun 28, 10:16 AM

That is 4745 days plus 4 days of the leap years (1996, 2000, 2004, 2008), Kathy and I married! We missed the previous 2 anniversaries because we arrived late in Hong Kong on the 28th June 2007 and my ...

gheet - EEE PC at last

Jun 27, 8:34 AM

Since the launch EEE PC in late 2007, I have always wanted to get one. Somehow just didn't get down to buy it for various reason, the price I felt was too steep (300+ Euro) for EEEPC 700. So when the ...

jacobs - CUPS available in snv_87 and later

May 19, 3:38 PM

About a month ago, I integrated CUPS 1.3.7 into Solaris. It shows up in snv_87 and later. For some, this is bound to cause some pain and suffering. For others, it is a welcome addition. For me, it's ...

jacobs - Time flies when you are punchin' in.

May 15, 5:08 PM

I work from home and have been doing so for about 12 years now. I have used a number of different methods of connecting to work to get my work done. They range from a Wyse terminal and moden, tip(1) ...