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Sunday, February 13, 2005 |
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Since the Mac was tied up (see below) I spent more time on the Linux machine, and managed to fix a few things, I think. Sound doesn't work until you open the sound board module in Yast2, but at least it works. kdetv works on the admin account, but not on my account. I also got the Canon scanner running - there was an easy UI in SuSE 9.2 which listed my scanner, but ultimately it wasn't pretty - and I did have this scanner working after a week-long hack a couple revs of the OS ago. It is great to finally be able to scan straight into GIMP (a first - last time, only VueScan worked), even if I've been doing this in Photoshop on a Mac since the early 90s, but, it's progress.
It's like all the pieces are there in Linux, there's just no one working to put them all together. Getting that same scanner to work on a Mac took 10 minutes: getting it to go on Linux took 2 afternoons, if you don't count the years waiting for first USB and then support for the chipset in my scanner. It really is all there, and when I have time to pursue the first 20 screens of pages that Google returns, I can often cobble together a recipe for what flavor of a prefs file (typed perfectly into an unusual, never-seen-before syntax) and find the right versions of the right packages that resolve dependencies so that I can custom hack another prefs file before compiling an app (or worse) a driver into my kernel that will work, at least with certain apps.
So, I know, Red Hat and Novell do this for the server biz. And Linspire and Knoppix endeavor to do this for a desktop audience. It still seems to me that there has to be a way to hack open source so that this will come together organically. The Linux desktop is stable and full featured - and frustrating, IMHO. I've said this before, and am hardly the only observer to say this... |
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Creating a monster: spouse Linda found a mini IPod under the tree this past Christmas, and we finally found time to give her an iTunes tutorial. She started at noon, and, some 1104 ripped and downloaded tunes later, she now has more music in her iTunes than will fit on the 4GB iPod mini. Been hard getting her off the Mac today... Comments 8:00:57 PM 
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