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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Any progress on this, or is the 14 year old github repo I've been seeing the best thing?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Read on the Mint forums a thread a while back, like from 2012 I think... someone had the same scanner as me and wrote to Hamrick about it, see if it's supported. Unfortunatelly, no, it's not... though this was a while back and maybe it's supported now, who knows, will have to try I guess to know for sure.

In any case, VueScan has some generic drivers in it, but it's far from that it supports every device out there. In general, it needs drivers for it to work, no different than any other scanning application.