I have worked for 6 years (2000-2006) at MandrakeSoft/Mandriva in Paris, and my very first task was switching from LPD (Line Printer Daemon, line printers are kind of high-speed electric typewriters) to #CUPS and so Mandrake was the first distro with CUPS and easy printing.

So whatever Mandrake version was released in fall of 2000 was the first ever Linux distro on the world which used CUPS.

And that was the foundation of #OpenPrinting !

openprinting.github.io/history…

And here is @Sweetshark ś reaction to this (he was leading The Document Foundation/#LibreOffice that time): extensions.libreoffice.org/en/…

#Ubuntu #OpenPrinting

Monthly blogging is really a great way to make one's organization's activity visible.

I do it since end-2019, for near 5 years now, for #OpenPrinting:

openprinting.github.io/news/

And since end-2022 when I joined Mastodon I am announcing each issue here.

Caused a lot of attention ...