Well, I haven't had much time to do anything with Linux or Open Source this week. I've changed ISPs from Wanadoo to Toucan and have been sorting that out. Toucan is cheaper, and gives you low-cost phone calls with no term contract. If thier service stays like this, they'll be the biggest ISP in the UK shortly. Wanadoo, however was less than efficient, as normal. But enough of that.
In the news, Mozilla has released Firefox1.5 rc3, but don't be fooled into downloading it as the stable (as in not Release Candidate) version will be out in a couple of weeks. I think it's best to wait, and set-up the final version with all the plugins and extensions.
Also Kubuntu, the KDE version of Ubuntu (as opposed to the Gnome version) is test-released under version 6.04. Now 5.10 was so recent that I haven't installed it yet, but remember this is a test release and its Kubuntu, 5.10 was stable and Ubuntu. However, the Ubuntu boys are working hard and staying on schedule. This means also that they will stay on top at DistroWatch.com.
Other things I have been doing is shopping for a free forum for my still upcoming website. I think I've found a couple of good ones to investigate further. Also, to always stay ahead of myself, I've been looking into a future project of a Linux cluster system. I was thinking of 4 old PCs networked together and using a specialised version of Knoppix called Parallel Knoppix to make them work as a single multi-processor machine. It's something to play with and the way Knoppix works it can easily be reverted back to a small network for just network experiments.
However that's probably next summer, and there's a lot to do before then. Until next week...