Comments on: #2: Granny’s new camera

By: hardware » Blog Archive » Granny’s new camera: Shuttleworth calls for wider hardware support

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:05:45 +0000

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By: 451 CAOS Theory » 451 CAOS Links - 2007.01.10

451 CAOS Theory » 451 CAOS Links - 2007.01.10 — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:40:58 +0000

[...] Granny’s new camera, here be dragons, Mark Shuttleworth (Blog) [...]

By: Hardly Any Hardware Works on Ubuntu Linux! | Ubuntu Linux Help

Hardly Any Hardware Works on Ubuntu Linux! | Ubuntu Linux Help — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:28:10 +0000

[...] “…it’s all about critical mass. Once 5-10% of the people who buy these gadgets are running Linux (actually, a single brand of Linux), only then will the gadget manufacturers themselves start to care about it as a consumer platform for which their stuff should work. That goes for everything from cell phones, PDA’s, and smart phones to some of the more weird and wonderful things that people like to drive from a PC, like laser cutters and 3D printing machines. It’s partly just a matter of time, but then it’s also partly a question of how we communicate the state of Linux today…” You can read his full post here: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/76 [...]

By: Mighty Linuxz » Granny’s new camera: Shuttleworth calls for wider hardware support

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:38:18 +0000

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By: nasrullah chinnarassen

nasrullah chinnarassen — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:47:16 +0000

i want to know if printer f380 Hp is compatible with ubuntu

By: Brad Whittington

Brad Whittington — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 09:18:47 +0000

I was thinking about grannies camera, and spec’d up this feature for launchpad: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/launchpad/+spec/hardware-compatibility

I would appreciate some thoughts and insights?

By: Chin Wong

Chin Wong — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 02:57:08 +0000

Hi Mark,

I’ve enjoyed your posts on the challenges we need to overcome so much I wrote about it in an article called “Almost famous” for one of the national dailies here in the Philippines. I’ve also posted the story on my blog:

http://www.chinwong.com/index.php/site/comments/almost_famous/

Ubuntu has come a long way in a really short time, but you are right when you say we need to 1) make it even easier to use, even for Granny, and 2) spread the word, not only about its benefits but also about how many people are really using it–as a way to encourage more hardware manufacturers to support Linux.

By: stefan.waidele.info » Blog Archive » Shuttleworth: Challenges for Free Software

Sun, 21 Jan 2007 19:29:25 +0000

[...] #2: Granny’s new camera - Vendor-support for the latest, cool gadgets. [...]

By: Fern Rimbaud-Molini

Fern Rimbaud-Molini — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:59:23 +0000

Mark: Agreed, we need to continue to put pressure on the manufacturers to support platforms that are important to their customer base.

That said, it is an uphill fight similar to the one we have with browser support and other technologies. Most of us don’t use IE or Office and we need to be very vocal about what we as consumers need whether it is the OS, the web interface or an open file format in which to save documents.

By: Lesley Clayton

Lesley Clayton — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 06:00:50 +0000

Yip it would be great to see more linux for the gadget world