To any returning reader, I greatly apologise for my lack of blogs over the past month or so. Unfortunately, real life takes over now and then and what I want to do becomes a lower priority. However, those events (work-related) are over now, and I think I've organised a better position to manitain this blog. In this way this will be a weekly blog only now, but it will maintain focus on Open Source and Linux software. I haven't decided yet but Mondays seem to be a good writing day as if I have managed to do anything on the weekend, I can write about it.

Now, for the the purpose of this blog. As probably mentioned before, I'm considering setting up my Linux machine and my XP machine on a KVM switch. I now have the KVM, thanks to a good buy on eBay. I also plan to peer-to-peer network the two machines and I now know that I need Samba and either LinNeighbourhood or Samba's own version of it. Ubuntu probably has this capability, but I know Mandriva has it. Therefore I now have copies of Mandriva/MandrakeLinux 10.1 and I was in that frame of mind I also have Fedora Core 4 and Knoppix 4.0 (Live). That's as far as I ahve got on my project.

As for news, well OpenOffice.org 2.0 is released. It's on both my work and home machines. More US governmental and educational institutions are seeing Lilnux as a good thing. Case in point, Bryant University in Rhode Island
Look Here. Without going much further, as this blog is big enough now, things are starting to move on FOSS and Linux, so keep an eye out.