Sorry for kind of being not all there today. I don't have to sell a  
kidney for a webcam and a microphone. I just need to sell blood plasma  
a couple times.

But speaking of which, I am looking at lots of webcam models and I  
notice all of them require not-Linux. Further research revealed that  
setting up video conferencing hardware and software with Linux is  
REALLY. FREAKING. HARD.

I have a two part question: First of all, has anybody ever done it  
before? And second of all, how do I tell which webcam models will make  
the insanely hard process as easy as it possibly can be?

If it helps,  
http://www.google.com/products?hl=en&q=webcam&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wf&ei=--DjSejQENfunQesktCtCQ&oi=property_suggestions&resnum=0&ct=property-revision&cd=3

Thank you,
Robin