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   Nathan Nutter
   September 14th, 2009 - 00:54

   First off, glad to hear it went well. I find this somewhat ironic though. You didn’t expect something Apple created to work with something else Apple created.

   “CUPS is the standards-based, open source printing system developed by Apple Inc. for Mac OS¬Æ X and other UNIX¬Æ-like operating systems.”

   Heck, http://localhost:631/ even works on Mac OS X.

   The history is on Wikipedia but in short Apple hired the developer of CUPS and bought the source code in 2007.
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   Robert
   September 14th, 2009 - 00:55

   This is not actually new to Karmic, it works in 9.04 too. It is because apple bought CUPS, and it is used in OSX. Printer sharing from macs works the same way.
3. 

   Joe
   September 14th, 2009 - 01:02

   I seem to remember it failing in 9.04, though I could be wrong

   As for the CUPS web UI, I knew it existed on macs also, I just rarely use it, that’s why I felt the need to mention it. I guess you’re both right though, I shouldve expected it to work given the link between the 2.

   IIRC it’s actually shared as a jetdirect printer on port 9100
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   Zac
   September 14th, 2009 - 03:28

   I’m glad it worked !

   I have an Apple mac mini, used for ipod and imovie, but since Ubuntu is my main workhorse this is good to know.
5. 

   Adam York
   September 14th, 2009 - 05:02

   Sounds good. I believe the changes in Pulse Audio for Karmic also now let you stream audio to Airport Express units.
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   bash
   September 14th, 2009 - 08:01

   I don’t find it that surprising. After all, Bonjour is just Apples implementation of Zeroconf, which cups supports quite nicely through Avahi. It should be supported in Ubuntu since Hardy.
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   Jack
   September 14th, 2009 - 09:29

   Cheers Joeb, this is good to know. After you’ve had a bit more time with it, maybe you could discuss problems you’re having, if any!

   For me I’m hoping it’ll work with my P4 single core computer. Even with over a gig of ram, basic apps like Rhythmbox with Pulseaudio stuttered (This isn’t the case with WMP with WinXP). If I can’t get the perfomance I need, I may as well buy a new computer, and if I do that, I’ll have Windows 7 on by default. Sure I’ll dual boot it with Ubuntu Studio Karmic, but I’d like to be independant from Microsoft.
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   Sense Hofstede
   September 14th, 2009 - 15:56

   I’ve always found that Ubuntu works a lot better with Mac than with Windows. Printing is one thing that those two operating systems have got very right.

   Karmic has always been a very good development release since I’ve started using it in June.
   The only problems it has are shutdown issues — too often your root partition is damaged when booting up again and the shut down button doesn’t work; GDM restarts — and Flash player issues — YouTube and other websites don’t respond on clicks.
9. 

   Schmuck
   October 21st, 2009 - 11:18

   I don’t like Linux because I had always problems in installing it on my computer Windows is easy to install but hard to use – so which OS we should use?
10. 

    perspectoff
    November 15th, 2009 - 18:38

    How do you figure that Apple created it, if they just hired the guy who created it? You give Apple a lot of credit…

    OS X is a blend of BSDUnix and the Next OS. It shares a lot of things with Linux, having the same lineage.

    I think you have it backwards — Apple uses open source technology in its platform because it works well. It doesn’t very often create something and give it back to the community.
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    Bud
    December 5th, 2009 - 05:12

    Sounds good. I am trying to set up my Airport Express for the first time in a new location. I recently wiped my Windows laptop and installed Karmic. I have the Express Utility running in Wine, but it will not recognize my Airport. Any ideas/suggestions??
12. 

    Joe
    December 5th, 2009 - 09:53

    Unfortunately I’ve never tried the Airport utility in Wine, though I may give it a try later and see what happens.

    As a wild guess, I’d say it’s a setting somewhere within Wine that relates to networking, so try to have a look for anything to do with that
13. 

    Bud
    December 7th, 2009 - 01:51

    I don’t see anything relevant in Wine. I actually was able to get my Airport working with a Windows PC.
    I still can’t connect to the router/internet with my Karmic laptop, though. Pardon my ignorance, but where are the wifi settings in Karmic? I am using WiFi Radar to search for and connect to my network, but I can’t get past the ‘Aquiring IP Address’ loading window…
14. 

    elmer fittery
    April 19th, 2010 - 22:47

    Really a big help. I didn’t even know about localhost:631 and I have been using linux for about 10 years.

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