Enabling CUPS
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For Developers
Peter Krenesky, from the Open Source Lab at Oregon State University, has verified that cups is installable and works on the XO over a traditional wireless network with the following steps from the Terminal activity:
1. Install CUPS:
su - yum install cups.i386
2. Configure your printer by editing:
/etc/cups/printers.conf
3. Restart CUPS:
/etc/init.d/cups restart
4. Print using the lpr command:
lpr -P fooprinter foodoc.ps
(In the above example, the printer name is "fooprinter" and the document being printed is "foodoc.ps".)
The long-term plan is a Sugar integration, but in a pinch this should get you started. Of course, the option remains to copy your files to a USB stick and print from another machines.