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[Nils Kassube]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> _I_ may be 
> willing to go through all that, but the next user might not. And even
> if he is willing to learn, there might not be a Thomas around to hold
> his hand and teach him. Is this operating system intended for devs, or
> for users? Only users with a certain minimum threshold of knowledge?

As far as I understood this thread, the gspca module was delivered with 
your Ubuntu version - it was just too old for your hardware. There will 
always be this problem of brand new hardware for which the distribution 
has no driver. I don't think that is a fault of the operatuing system and 
it is independant from the knowledge level of the intended user. IMHO the 
driver should be delivered by the hardware manufacturer together with the 
device, but unfortunately there are only very few manufacturers who do 
this.


Nils