Has Ubuntu Replaced Windows on Your Box?

[José Paulo Matafome Oleiro]

Ter, 2006-08-08 às 20:36 +0200, Eberhard Roloff escreveu:

> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 18:40:59 +0100
> vdal <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> 
> > Everything looked really promising, until I tried to do some
> > serious work: getting two USB scanners working either directly
> > in Ubuntu, or in a vm, because I do quite a lot of really
> > heavy-duty OCR in several languages, including
> > Russian/Ukrainian. No way, José! Ubuntu doesn't support my
> > scanners. That really matters to me.
> > 
> > So under Linux I have a nice desktop that doesn't allow me to
> > do everything I want to, while under Windows I have a nice
> > desktop on which I can do everything, including running
> > (K)Ubuntu under VMware!
> > 
> > So, personally, thanks but no replacement for me. However, I
> > would not hesitate to recommend (K)Ubuntu to anyone who balks
> > at the price of Windows but wants to get into computing with
> > all the essentials for office/internet work and play - and,
> > while I'm not making the move, my (K)Ubuntu dual-boot and vm
> > are certainly here to stay.
> > 
> > And I shall keep watching, because come the day I can scan and
> > OCR in Ubuntu, I could really be tempted to jump the fence.
> > Keep up the good work!
> > 
> 
> Thanks much for your great report about all the advantages and
> disadvantages of Ubuntu and Linux for your pattern of usage.
> Btw:
> If you want to have a more definitive statement about scanner
> support in Linux, you should have a look at this:
> http://www.sane-project.org/sane-supported-devices.html
> 

You can look into this guide https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ScanningHowTo at
the wiki it's about scanning in Ubuntu.

--
Sincerely
José Oleiro aka Matafome (#computers at irc.ptnet.org Blog do Matafome )
Running Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper with XGL on Fujitsu-Siemens Model Amilo M
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