waddles.org Wad about me?

I'm still seeking a new distro that takes less work than Gentoo but sits on the cutting edge and has reasonable package management. Kubuntu is potentially my next favourite distro and I'm currently running 9.04. I hate KDE4 but that's another story. Long live KDE3!

Unfortunately, the work we did in resolving the scanning problems for the Canon MP730 (pixma driver) didn't make it into SANE before 1.0.20 was released so probably even Ubuntu Karmic won't have MP730 support until SANE tags a new release. This leaves me with a problem: How do I rebuild the SANE packages to get my scanner supported?

In 2006, I spent a bit of time helping Martin Schewe and Wittawat Yamwong to develop some working drivers for the Canon PIXMA class scanners.