Description:

For whatever reason, many pieces of engineering hardware use the "plugdev" group in their udev permissions configuration. On just my own laptop I have MCU programmers, software defined radios, and a USB oscilloscope that all set their access permissions to plugdev. The group name appears to have been created at Ubuntu, but has since then been accepted as the de facto standard for data acquisition and electronic tools. Several of my packages in [community] ship udev rules that use plugdev, and in the past I've included directions for creating the group locally. However adding plugdev to the default set of groups seems much cleaner.