CD-RW

[Michael]

I thank you for all your useful suggestions thus far in distributions to 
get and all.  In this eandevor what I am trying to accomplish is getting 
an os that I ca work on that has a somewhat similar look and feel as OS 
X, but based on a linux kernel instead of Darwin based on the Unix kernel.
For the desktop I am probably going to use gnome, since I have some 
experience with it as I worked on the gnome 2.10 fink port  somewhat.  
one of the only developers who still used the 10.2-gcc3.3 tree, so 
actually that project for that tree was all me.
The other differences are in the things that 10.2 left out, such as the 
wide character supprt, which I guess is more complete in panther.  And 
glibc can't  be compiled in OS X.2,  or I just lack the experience in 
doing it.   Trying to get help after I compiled gcc-3.4.3 was like  
pulling teeth, and I, on the whole didn't like the various, and 
sometimes subtle differences that apple makes to the unix file names.  
IE glibtool instead of libtool.  And I don't like being told what I can 
and can't use.

Now to the actual question(s).  I have an external CD-RW, an internal 
Zip 250, both iomega.  A UMAX 1600U scanner, the latter 2 usb.  Are 
these kind of devices even able to be used in linux?  Do you have to 
write your own drivers for them?

--Mike
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