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Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 5:56 pm
by Husse
Scanners seem to be a problem area in Linux....
Anyway I think you could try the solution in the last post in this thread
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=432130
(install scanbuttond)
Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 6:18 am
by Husse
The lack of hardware support is a concern - or maybe rather the lack of willingness by the manufacturers to at least not hinder Linux
For printing it's rapidly getting better
http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting
I can tell you that my scanner is not working (yet) I ran into some problems with USB
I agree that Ubuntu did not do a good job in some respects with the upgrade to Feisty - quite a few things were broken.
However Ubuntu is probably the best base for Mint as has been extensively discussed in the community section of the forum