Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/13

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Absolutely, totally off-topic
From: Spencer Cheng <spencer@aotera.org>
Date: 13 Mar 2002 15:10:39 -0500
References: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0203130843490.16621-100000@neo.binaryfaith.com> <m3d6y8l77o.fsf@cher.devel.redhat.com> <200203131259437.SM00286@there>

Scanners are pretty well supported under Linux. My SCSI Canoscan FS2710
works fine under SANE (RH 7.2). Can't speak for any other scanners of
course.

Regards
Spencer

On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 12:57, Derek Zeanah wrote:
 
> But is this *actually* true?  I'm considering buying an LS4000 scanner and 
> I'm loathe to create a new partition on my box just for Windows.
> 
> But that seems to be the only way to run the scanner.  That, or buy a mac.  
> That's Linux's main failing right now -- software support from vendors. I 
> seriously doubt that Nikon gave any thought to Linux/*BSD support because the 
> user base is so small.

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