I have noticed there has been progress with these other products as to Linux functionality. (Again, I have it written down somewhere.) Software for the 1640, 600 & 2000 all reference other USB products that I believe use the same family of Atmel MCUs found in the US1800, so there appears to be a common library involved. Apparently the drivers now available and internal firmware are product of a software house in Germany. Parts of the command set TEAC lists as proprietary, i.e., nonstandard. The OTHER Tascam USB driver, usbusx2y, expects to see vendor ID the US1640/1800/2000/200/600 doesn't send - newer units send vendor ID for TEAC, not Tascam (or the other way around, I have it all written down somewhere). I had a client that bought one of these, and I found out a few things: