Hi, On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 12:19:42 -0700 Bruce Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "You are in a twisty maze of Unices, all slightly > different." Well... > OSX is different, in many ways. When you do move over you should check > out O'Reilly's book "Mac OSX for Unix Geeks". Certainly something I would look into once I've got an OSX at my hands. I've not realized the differences are so big. As I've picked up here and there that people got *nix software installed succesfully. I also find more and more often OSX in the list of supportes OS's in Linux programs. > Lots of configure scripts do take OSX into account nowadays, but > porting Linux apps is hardly the simplest thing. I didn't suggest porting sane -- It *is* ported as I learned of their webpage. OTOH I of course don't know how trivial/complicated it actually is to get it up and running. What I *can* say is sane supports the scanner in question and it might be a viable solution on OSX too. > 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've heard of fink occasionally now. Is this some kind of Linux (*nix) compatibility lib-collection? Something like cygwin for WinXX? > 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. Hmmm.... having a *nix like OS and putting something on top which camouflages the whole thing so much that there is not much similarity any more sounds strange to me -- Why the hell are then people out there who *love* the *nix aspect of OSX? > 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. That's of course a good option. At least the aspect of beeing rather careful in which hardware to buy is shared between Linux and OSX then ;-) K.-H. -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
