Hi

I am a student at University of Oslo and a happy and proud user of a Livescribe pen. At the university we are trained to use Linux. Which distro we choose does not matter, so we are free to use Ubuntu which provide us a great community where Ubuntu users can get fantastic support and much more. Ubuntu also comes with a good software package handlers called “Software Center” or “Synaptic”. I have Windows installed side by side with Ubuntu on my computers, but the only reason for booting into Windows for me now is to synchronize my livescribe pen or watch and hear recorded lectures. The fact that there is no Linux version of LD is starting to get more and more time consuming, because I always do my exercises in Ubuntu. I will urge you to make a port for Linux, and if you do, Debian/Ubuntu would be a good place to start. Because Linux is very common on universities around the world I think this extra expenses porting LD to linux will pay off because Livescribe will (I believe) reach a much broader range of your target group. I hope you will take this into consideration and create a Linux version of LD. I do not have the programming skills to make a port myself, but if I could I would have done it for free. So my solicitation to Livescribe is to contact the community at e.g. Ubuntu (www.ubuntuforums.com) and ask if anybody is interested in cooperate with Livescribe to create a Linux port.

I will post this message on different forums to see if I can get some response from the community, and if I do I will let you know. In the mean time I would love to hear Livescribes plans on this subject.

Thank you!

Thomas Gabrielsen