Re: [Dorset] Ubuntu 11.04 / 11.10
and even longer to figure out how to use, but I would say that, all in all, it has made my little Acer Aspire One much easier to use. I could not agree more Martin, I see no problem with Unity (Acer One Netbook used more than 11.10 on my PC) except I would say it took longer to get used to my mobile phone than this OS. There can be corner-cases, e.g. people with some screen configurations, e.g. people who need some compiz-accessibility-plugins, ... I note, interestingly:- *apparently* Linux Mint, has its' own gnome-2-spinoff, included in upcoming 12.04... (not seen it, etc.) Lubuntu has a nice lightweight environment and now works well in 11.10. May both be worth trying, if unity for-whatever-reason doesn't work, in my opinion... Just my opinion =). --Simon -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-12-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Linux Limitations
Alternatively there is almost certainly a more compatible, better spec'ed free scanner lurking unloved and unused somewhere in a loft of garage. Sean Briefly, my experience is that a lot of the older SCSI scanners work well, but the nasty-cheap-scsi-adapters they came with were a hit-and-miss-affair. I have a nice HP and Epson SCSI, that work beautifully with sane, and hence with all the different tools gscan2pdf / simple-scan / xsane / etc... I happened to get a very cheap adaptec SCSI card that works well. Whereas, the Windows drivers for such nicely-made SCSI-scanners, are often no longer supported etc etc. The only snag is that you may need to add something to set the right permissions on the /dev/sg? device as that permission-setting doesn't seem to be well-maintained anymore. --Simon (a lurker, not from Dorset ;-) ) -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-09-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
