linux hero's!

Good day crossfire!

Yesterday I have bought myself a netbook (Asus eeepc 900) with linux pre-installed on it. Everything works perfect, so I have no intentions switching to xp or win7, but I have no clue about hardware support for linux. Now I am looking for a all-in-one printer but I dont really know what I should pick! Could someone recommend me a printer wich preferably is able to scan a paper at two sides at once?

The thing I plan to do with the scanner is making my schoolbooks digital so I can type instead of using my horrible writing and I dont have to save huge ammounts of paperwork once I am done. Does anyone have experience with this and knows free/cheap software wich automatically tags the pages that are scanned? (e.g. [randombookname page 1,2,3 etc.]

And a final question!

This netbook has kOrganizer pre-installed on it and while exploring the program I thought it was quite useful, when looking up the developer I came across this site http://userbase.kde.org/. Is anyone familiar with it and does it contain software that you thought was useful? If so, wich program did you use and what did you use it for?

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e: Any useful things I should know as a linux user?
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which distribution?
Quotee: Any useful things I should know as a linux user?


Google is your best pal.
That pretty much sums everything up there is to say about Linux!
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Are you using the Xandros distro?
well your pretty much out of luck.. if you want to scan something use windows. It's somewhat tricky to get most of the scanners to work well on linux and even more harder in a closed system such as Xandros EEE distro which has many packages blocked and uninstallable. Just scan the pages in windows environment to a pdf form in which you simply just get the page numbers..
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and as a filler to that i might point out that the Xandros distro is horrific. When (note that i didn't use "if" ;) ) you are thinking of changing it either go with http://eeebuntu.org/ or windows XP they work great on 900 series.
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As everyone has been saying, what distro, there are some differences between them all that could matter
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