Linux + GNU = Humans Enabled

I was at Walmart yesterday - cruising the technology aisle, as I do often. I always make it a point to checkout different retailers to see what, if any, GNU/Linux compatible products they have for sale. This time I was looking through the USB webcams for one that said "GNU/Linux" under the system requirements. So I didn't find any boxes marked "Works with Linux", but then I saw this webcam (the Logitech E1000) for only $16.88. So then I though to myself, I could buy this webcam, take it home and test it with GNU/Linux, and if it doesn't work, I'll just bring it back and exchange it for another one to try until I find one that works. This is the beauty of shopping at Walmart, lol, they guarantee your satisfaction - even if it means you will swap out one product for another a few times. Well so I bought the Logitech E1000 USB webcam, I took it home, plugged it in to my Dell Inspiron 530n running Ubuntu 8.10, installed cheese (sudo apt-get install cheese), ...

One such example of a USB webcam that works with GNU/Linux is the Creative VF-0500 I tested this device on Ubuntu 8.10 GNU/Linux, - (2.6.27-11-generic) lsusb | grep Creative output: Bus 003 Device 002: ID 041e:4036 Creative Technology, Ltd Webcam Live!/Live! Pro Here are the programs that worked for me: Skype 2.0.0.72 - must use this command to make it work: LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype per http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-997807.html Cheese 2.24.2 (simple webcam program) ekiga 2.0.12 (VOIP client) Camera Monitor 0.2 (Simple Program to Show if the Webcam is on) gqcam 0.9.1 - I used this command to make it work: LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so gqcam -v /dev/video0 camorama 0.19 - I used this command to make it work: LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so camorama Here's a site that offers a USB Webcam that "Works with Linux" (unverified by me): http://www.keenzo.com/showproduct.asp?M=LOGITECH&ID=3278315&ref=GB Also checkout t...