Re: [LAU] Looking for Portable Digital Recorder, on a budget

Thanks for all of the replies. I hadn't considered a Minidisc recorder, but after considering that a Minidisc has moving parts, my old engineering background decided a mechanical failure would occur sometime in the future and I'd have to research this problem again. Next I saw this review of the Zoom H2 recorder: http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2007/09/13/review-zoom-h2-surround-recorder… That was an impressive review outlining a very intelligently designed recorder. I went to the Zoom website to see if I could download the user's manual. http://www.zoom.co.jp/english/products/h2/ I could. Any company that will provide the user manual online always has my referral, and most often my purchase. The H2 user manual states the supported Operating Systems are Windows XP, Windows Vista, and MacOSX 10.2 or later. As stated above, I'm running openSUSE 10.2 with a 2.6.x kernel. Is there any chance I'd be able to run the H2 through a USB port into my kernel and have all the functionality mentioned in the user manual?