Re: [hylafax-users] OS X user experiences wanted

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rick Dwyer wrote:

> Hello All.
>
> We are considering a HylaFax install on an OS X machine.  I would be 
> interested in knowing what others who have performed and install on OS 
> X think about it's performance.  Also, I would like to know 
> specifically the hardware they used, what type of fax modems and/or 
> boards they are using, what number of ports they have attempted to 
> run.  What was their personal experience with the install process, is 
> anyone considering putting together a nice neat install package, 
> etc.?   All this information would be extremely helpful and appreciated.


I've installed HylaFAX on OS X a number of times.  I've used the 
internal soft modems and also USB modems.  In each case I wasn't 
extremely happy with the underlying OS X driver set - the soft modem 
driver has been a problem and also the USB host driver has given me 
grief.  The problems weren't enough to make the user stop using OS X or 
HylaFAX, but to me it seemed a bit silly to want to put up with that 
just to use OS X (when PC hardware is cheap and GNU-Linux is free).  
Apple has appeared to have worked on those issues over time, too, as the 
newer releases have seem to have indicated.

OS X is a beautiful operating system.  Sadly, Apple appears to have put 
its own fax services behind the efax package (probably because it was 
more lightweight than HylaFAX).  The HylaFAX-on-OS X crowd is therefore 
a small one, unfortunately, and it seems destined to stay that way.  
That makes troubleshooting and user-group-based support more difficult 
than it would be, say, if you were using GNU-Linux.

Lee.


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