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Ter, 2006-08-08 às 20:36 +0200, Eberhard Roloff escreveu:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Hi,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 18:40:59 +0100</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">vdal <<A HREF="mailto:ulist@gs1.ubuntuforums.org">ulist@gs1.ubuntuforums.org</A>> wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Everything looked really promising, until I tried to do some</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> serious work: getting two USB scanners working either directly</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> in Ubuntu, or in a vm, because I do quite a lot of really</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> heavy-duty OCR in several languages, including</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Russian/Ukrainian. No way, José! Ubuntu doesn't support my</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> scanners. That really matters to me.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> So under Linux I have a nice desktop that doesn't allow me to</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> do everything I want to, while under Windows I have a nice</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> desktop on which I can do everything, including running</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> (K)Ubuntu under VMware!</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> So, personally, thanks but no replacement for me. However, I</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> would not hesitate to recommend (K)Ubuntu to anyone who balks</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> at the price of Windows but wants to get into computing with</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> all the essentials for office/internet work and play - and,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> while I'm not making the move, my (K)Ubuntu dual-boot and vm</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> are certainly here to stay.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> And I shall keep watching, because come the day I can scan and</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> OCR in Ubuntu, I could really be tempted to jump the fence.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Keep up the good work!</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Thanks much for your great report about all the advantages and</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">disadvantages of Ubuntu and Linux for your pattern of usage.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Btw:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">If you want to have a more definitive statement about scanner</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">support in Linux, you should have a look at this:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><A HREF="http://www.sane-project.org/sane-supported-devices.html">http://www.sane-project.org/sane-supported-devices.html</A></FONT>
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You can look into this guide <A HREF="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ScanningHowTo">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ScanningHowTo</A> at the wiki it's about scanning in Ubuntu.<BR>
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Sincerely<BR>
José Oleiro aka Matafome (#computers at irc.ptnet.org <A HREF="http://blogmatafome.blogspot.com">Blog do Matafome</A> )<BR>
Running Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper with XGL on Fujitsu-Siemens Model Amilo M 1420
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