ocrxtr recognision software

[Thomas D. Ward]

Hi, I do believe I get update notifications, but not on a daily basis. As
for uptodate I believe it once was free, but they now started charging for
it. If I want an update I manually get the packages and do a rpm freshen
install on them.
There is also a way to get monthly updates on cd sent to you with all the
updates applied. I would think being notified of updates, and getting the
latest security fixes would be a good thing. Slackware doesn't update as
regularly,
and they have long periods before stable versions. This is both good, and
has a bad side. Good because you are probably going to get the most stable
version they can provide, but bad because they are slow to release updated
patches.
Your comment about Red Hat releasing unstable software is misleading. I
believe they do release stable versions, but they discover security, and
other issues throughout the course of the stable version cycle. Every distro
discovers this or that after the release.
Take sendmail for example. It is not a product of Red Hat, but it has a
stream of security adviseries about security issues. Well, do you think the
security issues in sendmail effects only Red Hat or do you think it would
effect all distros including the Grand and invincible slackware?
Oh, and because of various problems in sendmail I use postfix instead. Which
by the way comes with Red Hat and not Slackware. Postfix is a hell of alot
easier to configure, hell of allot more secure than sendmail, and over all
hell of allot better product than sendmail.
As for OCR Shop it has library dependancies,and I was told by Vivadata that
they didn't recommend using other distros.
You want to try and get it working on Slackware, Debian, etc go ahead and
ttry the demo. At least you will know if it can be used with your distro.


 ----- Original Message -----
From: Adam Myrow <amyrow at midsouth.rr.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 9:06 PM
Subject: Re: ocrxtr recognision software


> On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Thomas D. Ward wrote:
>
> > The best OCR solution I've found was OCR Shop. However, you require a
scsi
> > scanner which OCR Shop supports, and you really do need a Red Hat
compatible
> > distro to use OCR Shop. Which is one of the reasons I reject other
distros.
>
> That is the reason I reject Redhat.  Their so-called standard involves a
> hacked kernel source, mostly beta software, and what isn't beta is highly
> modified.  On top of that, anybody notice how they release updates every
> day or two?  I know if I was running a server, that isn't the type of
> software I'd want on it.  Speaking of up2date, did you know that unless
> you pay for the service, it is only good for a limited time?  I didn't
> until a few months ago.  Despite my missgivings with Redhat, I had
> installed Redhat 8 on another partition.  I was hoping to play with
> Gnopernicus.  At the time, Redhat 8 was the first distribution to ship
> with Gnome 2.  Well, a few months after I installed Redhat 8, I got an
> email from Redhat stating that my demo account for up2date was about to
> expire and that if I'd just take this little survey, I could get another
> 60 days before it expired.  Since I hadn't gotten around to trying
> Gnopernicus out after all, and it still wasn't anywhere near production, I
> deleted Redhat and haven't looked back.  Now, I don't mind that they want
> to charge for the update service.  You can still download updates
> manually, and can install new versions from the Internet.  what bugs me is
> that they never tell you that this is a demo account nor do they tell you
> how long it is good for.  On top of that, I am still getting alerts in my
> email every day about the latest security fixes.  If my account isn't
> valid, why are they continuing to bombard my mailbox?  Why can't they
> release a stable version in the first place?  Slackware seldom needs to
> update between distributions.
>
> Oh, I forgot that this was supposed to be about OCR software.  So, what
> makes OCR Shop Redhat specific?  Is it an RPM?  Is OCRXTRA Redhat
> specific?
>
>
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