On Sunday, November 9, 2003, at 11:24 AM, Karl-Heinz Herrmann wrote:
On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 02:11:43 -0500 Glenn Schunemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Karl,
I got your first post and appreciate the info. However, when I saw "compile" and "it may not work with USB" I ran away screaming.... ;0)
Well ... I myself usually run Linux and am occasionally listening in
here as I might get a Mac sometime soon and picking up infos for a
friend with a G3 (HD data corruption with Rev 1 and larger new drives...
got resolved with new card).
Neither me nor my Mac-owning friend have seen an OS X yet, so I'm not sure what exactly comes along.
Then beware dispensing advice on an OS you've never seen. We used to have a sign above our server racks back when we were running 4 different Unix systems (Irix, HP-UX 9, Ultrix and an early version of Linux...this was a while ago):
"You are in a twisty maze of Unices, all slightly different."
OSX is different, in many ways. When you do move over you should check out O'Reilly's book "Mac OSX for Unix Geeks".
Since it's supposed to be a derivate of FreeBSD and it has a *nix like layer underneath most programs I'm familiar with in Linux should be available.
Oboy, where to start. Yeah..it's a derivative of BSD, but that's about where the similarity ends. I've seen people running into more problems switching from Linux to OSX than from Windows to OSX.
Many many libs are different. System administration is *entirely* netinfo db -based, (and is moving to a different, LDAP-based system starting with 10.3) so no conf files to edit. Libraries are in different places, etc, etc. The biggest is that Aqua is *not* just 'another window manager'; it is deeply intertwined with the OS.
Lots of configure scripts do take OSX into account nowadays, but porting Linux apps is hardly the simplest thing.
Fink works, but fink introduces all of it's *own* problems: you end up with a fink branch of many many libs, and it causes serious breakage to occur.
I don't know if gcc is installed by default. You could check if it is by running the command shell or whatever SteveJ called it and type "gcc" -- if it says somethnig about "no such file or directory" you don't have it.
For gcc you need to install the Developer tools packages which come on a separate disk with the OSX install.
That leaves getting an X11-server for the graphical frontends. There
*is* an Xfree86 for Mac OSX out there, how easy it is to install I don't
know.
Yes, Apple's X11, available on their web site. That's an excellent and well-integrated X11 server. This has all the problems of non-native drivers, though...they don't work from within Photoshop, for example. And the programs are non-native. Someone running a X-11 program sees the file system entirely differently than someone running a native OSX program.
A LOT of the unix file system is hidden in Aqua.
Basically, in my opinion, if the company doesn't support it on OSX, and VueScan doesn't support it, sell the scanner and buy a newer one that is supported. VueScan is a very good driver program, and I've seen compatible USB scanners on sale for as little as $20 on sale, after rebates.
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