LinLog

While setting up that Xandros box for my mother the other day, I noticed that they've issued a service pack. Service pack 2 for Xandros Desktop 3, to be more precise. That seemed a bit weird do me, because I don't remember seeing anything about service pack 1, but I guess that's not important. There were some good things in the service pack, such as an update to kcontrol. They put the component chooser back in! This is nice, but it comes a bit late to help me.

While I was installing the service pack on Sarah's system, I also installed all the "application updates" that were available. I don't know exactly how those are different from what's in the service pack, but I figured I might as well get them. For one thing, I noticed that they included an update to Xine, and I had been having some stability problems with Xine. No problems with the updated version so far, but I did notice that after I installed the update (or was it the service pack?) that the "Video Player" entry in the menu disappeared. What's up with that? The entire point of using a commercial Linux distribution is that they take care of these things for you.

In other news, Mom seems to be doing fairly well with Xandros so far. I sent the computer home with Dad when he was here this weekend, so I didn't get a chance to sit down with her and show her everything. I also didn't get as much time to work on the system as I'd have liked. See, Dad helped me put a new front door on the house on Sunday and it took literally all day (which is probably why Home Depot charges $279 for basic installation). We didn't finish until about 22:30 EDT, and I had to get up for work at 6:30. I ended up finishing the setup in a couple of hours on Monday evening.

I'll probably have to do some posts about Mom's questions for me. I got a couple of calls tonight for pretty basic questions. And by basic questions, I mean stuff that non-technical Window 98 users take for granted. Nevertheless, she seems happy with the new system. Of course, if you'd seen the old one, you'd know that anything would be an improvement. But it's getting late. More on that tomorrow.