Subject: Re: Re: Alpha NT´er gone linux!
From: Larry Snyder (larrys@lexis-nexis.com)
Date: Thu Aug 26 1999 - 20:12:25 PDT
Welcome!
SB should run just fine. AFA scanners go, www.mostang.com will give
you the link to the SANE page (Scanner Access Now Easy).
You'll want to check out the docs at www.alphalinux.org, and expect the list
to help as needed. You won't regret it!
-ls-
"Peter Lizon \(home\)" <peter@lizon.com> wrote:
> Ok,
>
> let the beginner questions begin: The RedHat site says there is no SoundCard
> and scanner support on AlphaLinux. Is this true? To what extent?I mostly
> have plain SB-16s in my Alphas an I also have a few HP-ScanJet 4c scanners
> that were the only scanners that ran on AlphaNT since day one . .
>
> Thanks
>
> Peter Lizon
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dan Morrill <morrildl@nycap.rr.com>
> To: <axp-list@redhat.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 9:44 PM
> Subject: Re: Alpha NT´er gone linux!
>
>
> > On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Peter Lizon wrote:
> >
> > > Anyway, you'll see a flood of Linux beginners here soon, so please be
> > > patient . .
> >
> > Heh... they're certainly welcome. Maybe this will push the Alpha up past
> > PowerPC to the second most popular architecture for Linux. ;)
> >
> >
> > Speaking of which, that always struck me as rather odd (that PowerPC Linux
> > users outnumber Alpha Linux users) since the Alpha is older, faster, and
> more
> > in line with the tinkerer's nature of Linux users. (Though the PowerPC is
> > also in line with the woefully underfinanced nature of Linux users. Maybe
> > that wins out.)
> >
> > Does anyone know of anything approaching a census or distribution of Linux
> > usage on the various architectures? It's hard enough just to count Intel
> > Linux users, so I doubt it, but I thought I'd ask.
> >
> > Just out of curiosity...
> >
> >
> > Dan Morrill
> > Computer Scientist, Physicist
> >
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