What a Productive Day
As expected, today was very productive. I've scratched almost half of
the week's agenda from the list, and even formed a long term work plan.
Most importantly, it was a fun time doing all this. This is the third
version of Xandros I'm working on, and the second that is fully under my
control until such a time it's considered alpha software. It's always
fun to see what can and cannot be done with an operating system when one
has full reign, until QA gets their hands on it and bugs have to be
fought in a formal manner.
The scanner purchased for a dollar started working too, when the creator of the Viceo SANE Linux scanner driver sent a patch that works with kernel 2.6.x, using libusb instead of the previous kernel patch. With this patch, the scanner can only work at half-resolution (600dpi), but seems to have decent overall image quality. It's a shame that Viceo won't allow a GPL-licensed driver. Either way, the scanner remains a well-spent dollar.