[wellylug] Fax Servers and Why I choose WinFax

[Phillip Hutchings]

On 11/08/2004, at 10:00 PM, Michael Dittmer wrote:

> Hi All...
>
> After banging my head against the brick wall that is HylaFax and also
> SambaFax plus a few others I won't mention, I gave up on trying to get 
> a
> Linux based fax server running.
> And nobody tell me to RTFM, I did that, not that it helped.
>
> My solution was to buy WinFax 10.0 Pro from Symantec.

Good. Hope it works will for you.

> If Linux is ever going to get accepted by the masses, it needs to have
> proper GUI tools for doing admin jobs and setting up programs / 
> services.

And who will make these? Unfortunately most Linux developers are quite 
good at CLI stuff, so there's not much chance of them doing it. I 
occasionally make web interfaces to things, but not much.

> Yes, I know that purests will tell me to learn the CLI, but I don't 
> have the
> time or energy and they can go put that idea where the sun don't shine.

Then pay for the service, which is what you did.

> As an example, Apple MacOS 10.3 Server has full GUI tools for DNS, 
> Apache,
> SysAdmin and quite a few other things. Everything can be done point and
> click. Linux needs to take a few ideas from Mac on ease of use.

My Mac cost $3000 plus two ~$240 OS upgrades. It has built in fax 
send/receive stuff, and it uses OSS fax software with a GUI. You pay 
for it. A new eMac costs ~$1500. My linux server cost me $800. See the 
difference? I expect to get more when I buy a Mac because of the price, 
and I do.

> Now if Apple would fully port MacOS X to x86, I would buy it, and so 
> would
> quite a few other people I know.

And that won't happen - Apple make hardware, not software.

Bottom line, this is a list for linux users, not a wishlist. We'll help 
you with current linux problems, but complaining to us will just get 
annoyed people, not results.

--
Phillip Hutchings
sitharus at sitharus.com
http://www.sitharus.com/
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