Friday, April 25. 2008

Peripheral Compatibility - Another reason I prefer Fedora to Vista

My 6-year-old son has this digital camera that we got him when he was 5. He wasn't that into it, but recently has shown interest. It's a disney Pix "toy" camera that comes with specialized software from digitalblue that you need to install if you want to get the pictures off. When I first got the camera, I just plugged the camera's USB cable into my XP machine to see if it would come up in the file system. No luck, I had to install the software, then it worked.



After "upgrading" to vista, it no longer worked even after uninstalling/reinstalling the drivers. This morning, he asked me to get pictures off the camera. I told him it wasn't likely because of the new computer. I was shocked when I plugged the USB cable into my Lenovo Y410 fedora 8 machine and a dialog box popped up asking me if I wanted to import pictures!

Freaking awesome! Cheers to the Fedora community!

Posted by thaddeus in Redhat Linux, Vista at 12:15 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

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I just came across this blog post and I am glad you had a good experience with Fedora. Keep writing
#1 Rahul Sundaram on 2008-04-25 16:58 (Reply)

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