Re: [hylafax-users] Best platform to start on.

["Gavin Henry" <ghenry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pedro Rocadas said:
> If you choose Debian (but this advice serves well for
> any distro out there), becarefull with which libetiff
> release you work with. Check here about the problem
> http://bugs.hylafax.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=500

OK, thanks.

>
> --- Gavin Henry <ghenry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Bodo Meissner said:
>> > Am 2004.10.19 11:35 schrieb(en) Gavin Henry:
>> >
>> >> We obviously want to use Linux, but what distro
>> is easist to go with
>> >> and do we use the standard documentation as on
>> the main website?
>> >
>> > Hello Gavin,
>> >
>> > I think it's easiest if the distribution has
>> pre-built packages for
>> > hylafax and maybe add-ons you might need.
>> >
>> > I use Debian. It has packages for hylafax (4.1.1
>> in stable, 4.2.0 in
>> > testing and unstable) and capi4hylafax (01.02.03
>> in testing and
>> > unstable). All documentation I needed for my
>> purpose was included in
>> > the packages.
>> > This is the only distribution I use with hylafax,
>> so I do not say it's
>> > better than others. It's simply one of the
>> possibilities and it works
>> > for me.
>> >
>> > SuSE has pre-build packages as well, even
>> capi4hylafax, but I don't
>> > know any details. Surely there are others which
>> have such packages.
>> >
>> > If you have a preferred distribution you normally
>> use, check if it has
>> > pre-built packages and try these.
>> >
>>
>> We use Fedora, but I love Debian too, so I think I
>> will go with Sarge
>> (testing?)
>>
>> I see there are Fedora RPMs but I want a really
>> tight and small install
>> and I think Debian squeezes down better?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
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>>
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