On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 15:15 +0800, Ronald Wiplinger wrote:
I have an AMD 64 processor and many programs are not working with the x.64 editions, like scanners, correct printers, cameras, ...
I want therefore move also my desktop over to Linux (SuSE 10), since all my servers are running SuSE anyway.
I list below programs I am using right now on Windows and hope you can help me to complete the list with Linux programs:
Photoscanner (basically it is a camera, which can make pictures and put them together into one pdf files, whereby it even turns the page and merge the pages into. You scan in 1,3,5,7, ... and flip the book, scan 8,6,4,2 and finish it to one pdf file) ?
xsane can now do multipage scans and save to one pdf file. I use the feature all the time to save copies of my multipage bills.
Maybe I can use also Wine for the missing parts? There is another program (not free) to overcome this.
I have three partition and now only used one for Windows. I can install on the second partition Linux and try, ... but if successful, I would like to shrink the old Windows partition ...
Any thoughts? Experience?
-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998