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Lone Programmer Writes 352 Webcam Drivers For Linux

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the twelve-cases-of-ballz-later dept.

mrneutron2004 writes "A French physician and ardent Linux supporter is the one man you can all thank for adding support for 352 webcams in Linux. The Open Source OS world may still be a bit of a mess when competing with the ease of Windows, but efforts like this make you wonder. One man with drive, tenacity, and no funding does what no one else can do. And none of the major Linux distributions back this guy's efforts, even the big players dipping into the corporate world's coffers."

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  1. Hey Scuttlemonkey by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    What kind of a geek misspells Bawls? And an editor at Slashdot no less. For SHAME!

  2. Amazing by SirJorgelOfBorgel · · Score: 5, Funny

    An amazing feat, this man should be recognized. Linux will never be on the desktop if your teenage daughter cant videochat with predators 2000 miles away! I for one welcome this new voyeur overlord.

    1. Re:Amazing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      > "One man with drive, tenacity, and no funding does what no one else can do."

      s/can/wants to/g

      There. Fixed that for you. :)

  3. Summary Title by jeffy210 · · Score: 5, Funny

    And even the summary title wants to short him for 99 cameras to his credit!

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    1. Re:Summary Title by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      It gets worse...

      Slashdot Title? 253
      Article text/Slashdot summary? 352
      Article photo caption? 235

    2. Re:Summary Title by Meadowhog · · Score: 3, Funny

      Slashdot uncertainty principle: If you know the speed with which he programmed the drivers, it's impossible to know just how many he wrote. Or something like that.. I'm sure I learned this in physics.
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    3. Re:Summary Title by Reverend528 · · Score: 5, Funny

      He wrote those 99 drivers in the time it took for the article to be posted.

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  4. Ballz? by 6Yankee · · Score: 3, Funny

    from the twelve-cases-of-ballz-later department

    Just don't ask how a physician gets twelve cases of balls... *crosses legs*

  5. Re:253 or 352? by Frequency+Domain · · Score: 4, Funny

    You know how Europeans always write their dates the reverse of the USA? This is like that, only different.

  6. Re:how many? by treeves · · Score: 4, Funny

    Should have just said "300, give or take 50."

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  7. Re:Let the market speaks by solafide · · Score: 4, Funny

    He has 352 daughters?

  8. Behind every great inventor by Demona · · Score: 3, Funny

    So where is the heroic bureaucrat who can get this hellhole running so efficiently, that all the labour can be done by a single Australian man?

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  9. Re:In other news... by IdleTime · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe, but according to the article, he has had sex at least two times more than you have.

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  10. For once by einhverfr · · Score: 5, Funny

    one can argue that this was not entirely the fault of Slashdot editors. Maybe the real number was 532?

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  11. Re:WOW!!!! by errxn · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anybody else glad that they are not one of this guy's patients?

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  12. Re:Damn.. by matt+me · · Score: 4, Funny

    Too bad all the stupid chicks that show their tits, don't use linux. Too bad for you all the stupid chicks who use linux don't show their tits. :p
  13. Re:Let the market speaks by xtracto · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, 253...

    well, that was before after editors wrote the title and before their wrote the summary.
    He might not have a TV

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  14. Yes, a machine. by Palmyst · · Score: 5, Funny

    What we need, obviously, is a Beowulf cluster of French Physicists.

    1. Re:Yes, a machine. by Palmyst · · Score: 3, Funny

      That's physician not physicist. Even better, a Beowulf cluster where the nodes can heal themselves.
    2. Re:Yes, a machine. by xappax · · Score: 5, Funny

      Would a werewolf cluster work in the interim?

      No way! The last thing we need is an American werewolf cluster in Paris.

  15. That's because he doesn't any more by cicho · · Score: 3, Funny

    Saddam is no longer in a position to write drivers. That's why Vista users are SOL.

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  16. The French help America once again! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    And again France helps America win it's freedom!!!

  17. Coming soon to a distro near you by dogwelder99 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anyone else start to hear the movie trailer guy's voice reading the summary?

    In a world of drivers gone mad... one man with drive, tenacity, and no funding does what no one else can do...

  18. Re:First frenchman in history by MrNaz · · Score: 4, Funny

    A smart post. But he said he's American. But it's actually insightful. But he's an American. Gargh! My mind can't handle the upheaval of reality!

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  19. Re:WOW!!!! by StikyPad · · Score: 4, Funny

    Lonely Programmer Writes 352 Webcam Drivers For Linux

    There. Fixed that.

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