Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1473 mails)

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 17:09 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
> Anton Aylward wrote:
> > > Is hylafax too much "footprint" for you?  I mean, set it up once and
> > > use it as often or not as you like.
> > What you're saying is that I need one of those nifty new laptops with
> > 4G of memory an 320G of disk.   Oh, drool!  And here was I being told
> > that Linux runs well on old equipment that can't handle Vista.  
> Well, my hylafax+asterisk setup runs on a 1GHz desktop PC with some
> 600Mb RAM and an 80Gb harddrive. 

Ditto.  My Hylafax box, used by ~300 people, is on equivalent
hardware.  

HylaFAX is not this user's issue I suspect, it is that he wants to scan
documents.  Faxing isn't the problem, but aquiring an image of a
physical page can be a pain (and required special-purpose hardware - a
scanner).

>  If you've got a laptop that'll run
> e.g. openSUSE 10.3 or thereabouts, I think you'll be fine. 


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