CUPS provides a portable printing layer for UNIX®-based operating systems. It was developed by Easy Software Products and is now owned and maintained by Apple Inc. to promote a standard printing solution. It is the standard printing system in Mac OS® X and most Linux® distributions.
This is a guide to running Linux with the Dell XPS M1710 notebook. The XPS M1710 is a very high end notebook with a big screen and fast components. It is also very heavy. Linux support is top notch.
Some of the AVM (Fritz!) devices are only supported by binary drivers coming from AVM. But these are no longer distributed on the install media.
Background: For different reasons some hardware that was supported out-of-the-box by 10.0 and previous is no longer supported by 10.1. Mostly this is because it has been decided not to ship binary only (closed source) kernel modules - in compliance with the GPL and the wishes of the kernel developers. A new system (KMP, Kernel Module Packages) has been developed to adress this issue - but as of yet not many binary only KMPs are available.