[ale] RE: New Apple chip

[Thomas Holmquist]

use SANE for scanner drivers

(HP already offers drivers for their printers)

(They are afterall a big supporter of OSS)

miguel wrote:

>On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 10:09, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
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>>On Tuesday 24 June 2003 09:17 am, Christopher Fowler wrote:
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>>>Rebuttle:
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>>>http://www.haxial.com/spls-soapbox/apple-powermac-G5/
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>>The article referenced above rebuts Apple's claims to
>>a gain in chip/bus speed over Intel and other PC chip
>>makers.
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>>Processor speed is certainly _one_ benchmark of a computer
>>system. But I would argue that when we are talking about
>>desktop systems, speed today is almost irrelevant.
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>>Speaking as a PC user who finds the "cute" factor of Macs
>>distasteful at best, the Apple products do have some things
>>going for them way ahead of what is available to me with
>>Linux.
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>>The new Apple G5, according to Jobs, will have built in fax
>>capabilities. Also built in will be the new Firewire standard,
>>gigabit Ethernet, USB 2.0, and other more Apple-centric goodies.
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>>Are most of these features available to me. Yes, I suppose they
>>are; but not without a _lot_ of hassle. By way of example, I have
>>yet to get a memory card reader to work correctly on this box --
>>RH 9.0 -- and it will take me hours of frustration to get the
>>scanner working again. No such frustration with the Mac.
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>>On the down side, although OSX is apparently based on BSD and
>>has a terminal program, it is _not_ trivial to become root on
>>this operating system and actually change some of the niddling
>>aggravations. Also not trivial is Apple's continued insistence
>>on a one-button mouse.
>>When, not if, Linux surpasses Apple in the number of installed
>>desktops, manufacturers will begin developing Linux drivers
>>for their products and adding them to the boxed package. With
>>any luck that point will be reached in the next 24-36 months.
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>>If HP were to offer a scanner with included Linux drivers today,
>>I'd buy it tomorrow. Regardless of price. Same goes for a memory
>>card reader.
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>>Sean
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>hmmm. HP does have linux drivers for scanners, but not included...what
>diff. does it make? just download it. i will check if the driver page is
>external.
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