Getting scanners to work with Linux

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Author: editingwhiz

editingwhiz writes “More than a few Linux users have become upset because they have trouble making scanners work properly with their systems. Most of the time, however, “the fault doesn’t lie with Linux,” writes DesktopLinux.com columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols.

Instead, “it’s the eternal problem of hardware vendors neither supplying drivers nor the information developers need to write drivers,” he continues.

Read the entire article here, and then share your own Linux scanning nightmares — and solutions — using the article’s talkback thread.”