mark adrian bell <[email protected]> writes:
>> I'm going to get a new desktop at work and was wondering whether it's worth
>> moving to 64-bit.
>
> I confess that I still dual boot 32-bit for one legacy application:
> Vuescan. But with enough tinkering with ia32-lib or VirtualBox, I bet I
> could get it to work. It used to work on 64-bit Intrepid. Other than that,
> I've been running a 64-bit desktop happily for years.
Out of curiosity, what convinces you to keep using Vuescan rather than getting
SANE to talk to your scanner, providing an open source derived set of drivers?
(...or is it a lack of open drivers for the hardware?)
Daniel
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