[$] Fedora contemplates the driverless printing future

Back in a distant time - longer ago than he cares to admit - your editormanaged a system-administration group. At that time, most of the day-to-daypain reliably came from two types of devices: modems and printers. Modemsare more plentiful than ever now, but they have disappeared into interfacecontrollers and (usually) manage to behave themselves. Printers, instead,are still entirely capable of creating problems and forcing areconsideration of one's life choices.Behind the scenes, though, the situation has been getting better but, as arecent conversation within the Fedora project made clear, taking advantageof those improvements will require some changes and a bit of a leap of faith.