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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 - Desktop Summit - Here I come!

Jul 1, 2:44 PM

Desktop Summit which is made up of GUADEC and AKademy will be held this year in the Gran Canaria from 3rd-11th July. This is by far the biggest events on its nature, FOSS and totally Desktop ...

gheet - A Webcast for SourceJuicer - Web based automated build system for OpenSolaris

Jun 2, 3:10 AM

To make life simpler for folks who wants to contribute OSS code to OpenSolaris, SourceJuicer is a web based through where spec files (format derived from RPM) can be submitted and automatically build ...

gheet - My first git commit

May 1, 6:45 AM

I did my first git push yesterday (30/04/2009() since GNOME has moved from svn(1)to git(1). First of all, I really do appreciate those who worked on getting git(1) into OpenSolaris; save me having to ...

halton - quadruple-boot for WinXP/Ubuntu/Fedora/OpenSolaris

Apr 20, 3:36 AM

I'm trying to install a quadruple-boot for WinXP/Fedora/Ubuntu/OpenSolaris on my Ultra 20 box. Since WinXP, Fedora and OpenSolaris need to install on a primary partition, so my partiontion table is ...

halton - On going issues for multi-display work

Mar 30, 11:05 PM

After several weeks work, I work out a workable multi-seat and multi-display support patch for ConsoleKit and NewGDM . I already commit it to SFE repository. * ConsoleKit-04-ck-dynamic.diff * ...