[Sussex] Two operating systems & one camera...

[John D.]

On Friday 14 July 2006 08:43, Desmond Armstrong wrote:
> My experiences are the same, the use of digital cameras on Linux is much
> better than on Windows.
> We have flphoto, the gimp, kuickshow and many other user friendly
> programs available to us.
> Recently I encountered a very cheap camera which would not work under
> Linux, but that is the exception, all decent ones do work very well.
> Now that win98 can no longer be updated we must move on and Linux is the
> ONLY way forward.
Well, I have to say that I was quite surprised when I connected my partners 
camera (fujifilm F810) last year.

I'd done a bit of reading and expected to have to mess about, but the Mandriva 
that I was using then just saw it no problem. It is a little weird though as 
it see's the device and gives it an icon but it does insist on calling the 
memory card something like /dev/dcim or similar. As opposed to just seeing it 
as a removable media device (though in truth, thats just how it might 
actually be seeing it - I haven't bothered to find out).

So what with the recent news of W98 final demise, I've already said to Clare 
about putting linux on her laptop. I just need to find out how to get 
her "Creative Zen Touch" to work with Gnomad - and whether it will support 
Ogg-Vorbis or not.

She was a little resistant to Open Office initially, but she will now do most 
of what she was doing with MSO 2K before, I just have to work out how to do 
the other bits and pieces (like making background watermarks etc). Otherwise 
it's not really an issue.

Granted, we are enjoying the benefits of the latest Kubuntu release, which 
has, for me, a few annoying anomalies (how the hell do I get rid or sudo, or 
at least relegate it to the background so I can use the system in the 
traditional "root/user" method ???). She seems to be starting to realise that 
it's got "bog all" to do with the OS, and more to do with the application(s).

Anyhow, after that "ramble", as self proclaimed "LUG nugget" I concur, very 
much, with Gavin.

regards

John D.