Up and running pc's

I have 2 pc's new and old. Managed to load something on the old pc.
Combo drive installed and finally installed FC3.
It was superb. I was surprised when it asked me to test sound and literally some music came out from the speakers. I have never seen this any of the Linux distros I have used.
Am working hard in office trying to complete the complicated work in a better and faster way.
It is month end time and also year end time.
Worked on Sunday also i.e 27/3/05
Last week when I was working in the office past 8pm and listening to songs while working I heard one of my all time fav ghazal by Jagjit Singh "tera chehra kitna suhana.........".
Memories flooded my mind when I use to listen to the same song out of my limited collection of mp3's way back in 2000(when I was a bachelor :)
Guess what I use to hear this in Linux playing it in mpg123. I was a total newbie then and the linux intoxication had caught me. I was using a small linux distro(floppy based) called mulinux due to PC constraints.
News!!!!!!!!!
Slackware removes GNOME?????????
Gentoo 2005 released
Ubuntu and userlinux to combine

I had a P100 with 16mb RAM and 4.3G HDD.

Information overload

KDE 3.4 released
Knoppix 3.8 released

Linux Device drivers 3rd edition (covering 2.6 kernel ) is out. i just bought the 2nd edition in Bglore on 29/1/05 hope only changes will be with ref to 2.6 kernel!. I downloaded it from lwn.net.

There is a info overload. So much info available so little time to concentrate. Whatever u search on google there is load of information.

looked up info on bit torrent. Whether this also requires a broadband connection.
Yesterday tried some old cd's of Knoppix. Still waiting for the combo drive.
Taking a off tomorrow may do some prodcutive work.

New knowledge

What is iiimf???????????
Internet Intranet Input Method Framework Project

I did not know this. Read this on kartiks blog and searched google.

This for the i18n (internationalization) project.
I realised that I was nowhere near the latest in technology. I see myself as a primitive.
I have ordered a combo drive cd r/w and dvd reader. Hope to get it by the weekend.
Want to install Freebsd which I have on DVD.
Dont know why I am getting interested more and more in freebsd.
Also need those good old slack cd's 10 or 10.1

First post-Gentoo blogs

I read this blog kartikm@blogspot.com everyday. Nothing in particular but I happened to visit it once and found this to be a young linux developers blog.
In turn I found many useful links from here. Someday I will mail him.

Just like the above today I found a link to planet.gentoo.org. Oof!!!!!!!
this site has blogs of gentoo developers wth some additional links. Someday I plan to run Gentoo compiled from stage1 as my distro

Currently dual booting with Win XP and Ubuntu Warty(4.10).
I frequently visit www.distrowatch.com for latest updates on distros. There are 393 active distros as on 14/3/05 acording to this site. Wondered how many of these were used.
An interview of Ladislav Bodnar was posted on a site. It was a great read.
Nowadays whenever I start my Pc I log on to IRC through MIRC.
Yesterday night had 414 users online for Ubuntu.
I have bought some Rs.3500/- worth of computer books mostly related to open source.
Do not know when I will read them.
It is getting increasingly difficult to indulge in hobbies like linux and open source with a full time job and kid to look after.
Will keep posting daily I hope

New blog-only for Linux,Open source and computers in general

Starting a new blog just to write about my Linux experience. Also it will contain general posts in relation to software/hardware etc but more about open source.

Hope to keep it updated regularly.
My other blog is for general topics life and the universe.
Actually I was pondering for quiet a few days whether to create another blog and finally did it.