[plug] ** February Hacker Night Notice **

[Timothy White]

Bret Busby wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Cameron Patrick wrote:
>
>>
>> PLUG Hacker Night
>>
>> When:  Thursday 17 February, 7:30pm - 11:00pm
>>
>> Where: Central Chemical Consulting
>>       Unit 1, 11 Narloo Street
>>       Malaga
>>
>> Since the new Computer Angels distro (which has been worked on in
>> previous months' hacker nights) is now nearing completion, this
>> Thursday we would like to see as many PLUGgers as possible turn up
>> with hardware to test for compatibility with the CA distro.  We're
>> mainly interested in hardware that is known to work with other
>> distributions of Linux, particularly
>>
>>    - ink-jet printers (parallel and USB)
>>    - digital cameras
>>    - USB thumb drives and other storage devices
>>
>
> I am no Linux hacker, so my statements below, are as a layman.
>
> It is my understanding that any digital camera that has a USB
> interface, will (relatively) easily interface with Linux - it just
> needs mounting as a USB storage device, and a script to upload the
> images. HOWTO's exist.

Unfortunately this isn't true. /Most/ Cameras are just simple mass media
storage devices or TWAIN (Windows?) devices that can also be used under
Linux with the correct drivers. There are unfortunately a few cameras
that have some sort of wierd 'secure' driver for windows that will just
not work under Linux (Stupid Sony...)

Also the same applies for some USB storage devices but IMHO they seem to
stick to standards a lot better than Cameras.

The /main/ reason CA want to test hardware is so that the distro will
work with as much old hardware as possible as well as new peripherals
that users may purchase later on as they progress into Computer Land.

Tim

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