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LinuxMedNews: Review: Linux vs. Windows 98 Scanning

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 24, 2001

[ Thanks to Saint
for this link. ]

“I finally broke down and shelled out some dollars for
a scanner, an Epson Perfection 1240U Photo in order to add a few
pics to LinuxMedNews.com. Having plunked down my money I thought I
might as well do a side by side test of the scanner on Linux and
Windows. I was prepared to be disappointed in Linux due to previous
experience with sound card and video configuration. Read on to see
what happened.

The Epson Perfection 1240U Photo I bought was $217 from
Computers4Sure. It is a USB device which includes a transparency
adapter for scanning negatives and other films. The scans were done
on the same machine dual-booted to Windows 98SE and RedHat Linux
7.1 using the defaults for all software.”

Complete
Story

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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