I have not had a chance to play with it a lot yet, and can already crash it, but im sure these will get nailed. Linux - no driver Or how to avoid the download phase. Even with the development of gphoto downloading is slow. Getting sick of having to find the PC every 12 shots in order to change films , I bought a 16Mb Compact Flash card. 16Mb of image data takes quite a while to download.
Access is also many times faster than the serial link.
The main issues here are not camera related at all, but all to do with getting Linux onto the laptop in the first place. RedHat linux didnt have a suitable driver for the card. I belive that the Smart Media flash cards used by other brands of digital cameras pretend to be some sort of floppy device. The BSD and Linux devloper community have a lot in common and a lot of overlap. However I havent worked out how to properly use The GIMP yet, so I boot up Windows and use photoshop on my desktop PC to work on the images.