Till Kamppeter<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@itsfoss" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>itsfoss</span></a></span> 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 <a href="https://ubuntu.social/tags/CUPS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CUPS</span></a> and so Mandrake was the first distro with CUPS and easy printing.</p><p>So whatever Mandrake version was released in fall of 2000 was the first ever Linux distro on the world which used CUPS.</p><p>And that was the foundation of <a href="https://ubuntu.social/tags/OpenPrinting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenPrinting</span></a> !</p><p><a href="https://openprinting.github.io/history/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">openprinting.github.io/history/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>