I'm currently using an older Epson Perfection with a reasonable degree of
success. HP is probably going to be your best bet for any kind of stable
use and long term support, though. It'll function correctly on about
anything until the unit dies from mechanical failure.
You can get away with most playback using the FFMPEG package and VLC Media
Player, FFMPEG is generally available on ATRPMS, ELREPO, and RPMFORGE. VLC
Media player has a native .RPM for Enterprise Linuxes on videolan.org.
Those two seem to bug the least and work the best across platforms for me
for
http://chrome.richardlloyd.org.uk/ i've had good luck with this guy's shell
script on a CentOS6 system for getting glibc.so.6 extracted and squirreled
into the right folder without breaking the rest of the system. It's the fix
for Chrome, but I don't see why it couldn't be applied to opera or any
it shouldn't be horribly difficult to edit grub or use unetbootin to set up
an initial setup/install and add partitions/installs/ISOs to grub as
needed, just put them on different partitions and add a menu choice. if you
have a win box handy http://hddguru.com/software/HDD-Raw-Copy-Tool/ this
