[$] Fedora contemplates the driverless printing future
Back in a distant time — longer ago than he cares to admit — your editor
managed a system-administration group. At that time, most of the day-to-day
pain reliably came from two types of devices: modems and printers. Modems
are more
plentiful than ever now, but they have disappeared into interface
controllers and (usually) manage to behave themselves. Printers, instead,
are still entirely capable of creating problems and forcing a
reconsideration of one's life choices.
Behind the scenes, though, the situation has been getting better but, as a
recent conversation within the Fedora project made clear, taking advantage
of those improvements will require some changes and a bit of a leap of faith.