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From: Franz Fellner <alpine.art.de@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Purchase and setup of monitor calibration device
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 16:27:41
Message-Id: 5516d69cb895e_1f098b304b1@TP_L520.notmuch
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Purchase and setup of monitor calibration device by Rich Freeman
1 You forgot one important point:
2 It's a completely open product!
3 ColorHug is OpenHardware. The software is OpenSource (hosted at github).
4
5 Concerning setting up your computer with the generated profile:
6 I think that should be possible with colord.
7
8 Rich Freeman wrote:
9 > On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 7:48 AM, Franz Fellner <alpine.art.de@×××××.com> wrote:
10 > >
11 > > You maybe want to have a look at ColorHug:
12 > > http://www.hughski.com/
13 > > I don't own one, but it should work just fine.
14 > >
15 >
16 > I'm still not sure if I feel the need greatly enough to invest in one,
17 > but this looks like a very nice solution. They offer a LiveCD which
18 > you can use to just create an icc file which you can save to media or
19 > they have a free pastebin-like site that you can post them to for a
20 > week to retrieve after you reboot into your main OS. That means you
21 > can trivially use this solution on numerous computers without
22 > installing drivers/etc or worrying about compatibility. I'm sure
23 > getting it working natively on Gentoo wouldn't be a big deal either.
24 >
25 > For $100 it doesn't seem like a bad deal. It does look like you have
26 > to take care of the import side yourself (I've never actually done
27 > that which is ironic since I've spent the last two years working on a
28 > system for automating corporate import declarations - I imagine the
29 > courier will handle it for a fee - I doubt the duties are much). I
30 > guess they don't just do what all the cheap Amazon vendors do and
31 > stamp "gift" on the outside of the package.
32 >
33 > --
34 > Rich
35 >