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

["Darren Nickerson" <darren.nickerson@xxxxxxxx>]

"Jim Moseby" <JMoseby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Regardless of Mr. Nickerson's claims, any reasonably computer literate 
> soul
> will have excellent results in setting up HylaFAX on their first Linux
> installation, especially with the help of this list's contributors.  What
> have you got to lose, give it a try!  I did, and I haven't looked back.

I think you misrepresent my claims Mr. Moseby ;-) I'll be the last one to 
discourage ANYONE from using HylaFAX! I was just saying that even though a 
box might be shipped 'turnkey' and preconfigured, it's still Linux and as 
such might not be as 'easy' as one might hope.

My first introduction to *NIX was in fact through my use of  HylaFAX (then 
FlexFAX)... on an old Sun Sparc IPC running SunOS before the days of 
Solaris. I had a classic newbie moment -  one day I decided to move a little 
file called ld.so for a minute, ... it looked small and unimportant enough 
... then *BOOM*. Thus began my lesson in static vs. dynamically linked 
binaries.

I'm all for people learning to use Linux and HylaFAX from scratch, all at 
once. There's a learning curve to both technologies though, and I'm willing 
to bet there's a lot of people who won't find it as easy as you did. But by 
all means please do go out, download a distro and slap a HylaFAX package on 
it or, better yet, compile it yourself! It's all there for you. You'll be 
amazed at what you can do - just expect a few scraped knees along the way 
;-)

-Darren

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Darren Nickerson
Senior Sales & Support Engineer
iFAX Solutions, Inc. www.ifax.com
darren.nickerson@xxxxxxxx
+1.215.438.4638 x8106
+1.215.243.8335 (fax) 


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