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Re: A Call To Arms!!

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From: Leon Brooks
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 00:00
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Nick Andrew wrote:
> >Although this is a noble pursuit, I think concentrating on support for
> >devices such as scanners, digital cameras and the like will prove more
> >useful in the eventual Linux revolution.

> See the S.A.N.E. project for scanner support.

> Linux supports my digital camera (Kodak DC20), although I don't have the
> source for the program which converts the image output from proprietary
> format (CMT) to open (TGA).

Linux also supports my (borrowed) digital camera, an ePhoto307, using
the PhotoPC program (and I'm writing a little TCL/Tk frontend for it)
but unfortunately the camera sucks. I only get non-blurry JPEGs out of
it on every second Thursday, if I hold my tongue the right way.

-- 
"At Fluke we spend about five times as much per Microsoft seat as for
Unix seat
 in support costs. ... While I don't ever use NT, I see notices at least
once a
 week warning of system down time. Our Unix systems and our bootleg
Linux systems
 rarely go down - running for months without a single glitch." -- Steven
Swift
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From: Leon Brooks <leon@brooks.smileys.net>
Subject: Re: A Call To Arms!!
Date: 1998/10/26
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