(Linux user? Linux only user, even? I haven't seen this information posted elsewhere, and it might be useful to others.)
1. You can do a firmware upgrade on an EOS DSLR with Linux. This assumes you have a USB card reader (highly recommended anyway). Download the Windows version of the firmware from Canon. This is actually a self-extracting Zip file, which you can unpack on Linux using the 'unzip' command. (This command is from Info-ZIP, and is probably already included in your Linux distribution.) Example:
unzip eos60d-v109.exe
2. You can configure settings in the camera using the "gphoto2" command. This is included in some distributions, and should be available for others, or check www.gphoto2.org
. Connect camera to Linux PC using the USB cable and type "gphoto2 --list-config" to see the available settings. Change settings using "gphoto2 --set-config name=value". For example, to set the copyright text in the camera, which goes into pictures as EXIF data:gphoto2 --set-config /main/settings/copyright="Copyright (C) Your Name Here"
