[Wylug-help] Advice

[Roger]

On 22/10/2010 13:50, Pighills Alison wrote:
> I wonder if you could possibly give me some advice –I have just bought
> my daughter a Dell Mini 10 netbook which runs on the Linux operating
> system and I would like to buy a USB connecting DVD/CD drive for it –do
> I need to buy something specific to ensure that it will be detected?

I don't know the answer myself, but I'm optimistic.

If no-one comes forward with a definitive answer, I suggest you look at 
http://www.linux-drivers.org/ which may help.

Otherwise, I 'd suggest simply trying it - Linux supports an amazingly 
large variety of hardware and USB drives seem to follow well defined 
standards so I'll bet you a pint that your daughter's USB DVD/CD drive 
'just works'.

As a related test, my wife recently bought a Kindle ebook reader, which 
uses a USB connection.  I've just plugged that into my Linux (CentOS) 
server and a moment later a file browser window opened showing its 
contents.  I was confident it would and it did.

I've no specific knowledge of the Dell Mini 10 netbook, or which version 
of Linux it runs, which could be significant, but I bet you any recent 
version of Linux will do what you want without needing any technical tweaks.

My advice is just to 'go for it'.  Come back if you have problems, but 
expect it to just work!

Roger

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