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By Arun, 4 months and 1 day ago

Acer to install Linux on it's laptops and netbooks

Acer is planning to push Linux aggressively on it's laptop and Netbooks. Netbooks are smaller version of the laptop, similar to ULPC. Acer has already started selling Linux on Media PC business and netbooks and they are planning to add laptops to the Linux lineup.

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By Arun, 7 months and 10 days ago

Howto: Setting up Acer 320U scanner in Ubuntu

I bought Acer 320U scanner long time back. I didn't use it for sometime. I thought I would start using it since my Dell All-in-one A962 printer/scanner didn't work with Ubuntu. Ubuntu got XSane image scanner program installed by default under Applications -> Graphics. I thought once I connect my scanner, I should be able to start working with it immediately. I was wrong. XSane did detect my scanner as show below in the picture.

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