LPRng is a printing system compatible with the Berkeley printing system

Berkeley printing system

The Berkeley printing system is one of several standard architectures for printing on the Unix platform. It originated in 4.2BSD, and is used in BSD derivatives such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and DragonFly BSD...

. It provides printer spooling

Spooling

In computer science, spool refers to the process of placing data in a temporary working area for another program to process. The most common use is in writing files on a magnetic tape or disk and entering them in the work queue for another process. Spooling is useful because devices access data at...

 and network print server

Print server

A print server, or printer server, is a device that connects printers to client computers over a network. It can accept print jobs from the computers and send the jobs to the appropriate printers....

 functionality using the Line Printer Daemon protocol

Line Printer Daemon protocol

The Line Printer Daemon protocol/Line Printer Remote protocol is a network protocol for submitting print jobs to a remote printer. The original implementation of LPD was in the Berkeley printing system in the BSD UNIX operating system; the LPRng project also supports that protocol...

.

It is an open-source project hosted on SourceForge

SourceForge

SourceForge Enterprise Edition is a collaborative revision control and software development management system. It provides a front-end to a range of software development lifecycle services and integrates with a number of free software / open source software applications .While originally itself...

 and implemented by many open-source Unix-like

Unix-like

A Unix-like operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, while not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification....

 operating systems. LPRng was abandoned by its author in early 2005, then picked back up by new developers in October 2006.http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=623973 A new release was made available in December 2006 http://sourceforge.net/projects/lprng/ (LPRng-3.8.29 RC 1).

The latest release is 3.8.35, which was made available on Nov 30, 2010.

See also

• Common Unix Printing System
  Common Unix Printing System
  CUPS is a modular printing system for Unix-like computer operating systems which allows a computer to act as a print server...
  
   (CUPS)
• System V printing system
  System V printing system
  The UNIX System V printing system is one of several standard architectures for printing on the UNIX platform, and is typical of commercial System V-based operating systems such as Solaris and SCO OpenServer...
  
  

External links

• LPRng web
• LPRng lpinfo web interface
• RFC 1179