Many, Many thanks to all the attendees of Albany Linux Day, we had over 60 local folks come see our show, which was primarily to keep everyone updated and to help answer questions about testing and implementing Linux in their organizations. You all were great, and keep an eye out for flying penguin squish toys....

One of the questions was about using free software on Windows, and I mentioned the Open CD project which is a great collection of gateway applications and tools for running Open Source on Windows, thereby avoiding the higher costs of MS office suites and other proprietary packages. Download an ISO and give these free/open apps a try, and the best thing is you can give as many to your friends and colleagues as you want.

Speaking of Linux and the Desktop, the Wall Street Journal has the first article in a series about can their reporter switch to a Linux Desktop, give Out the Window a read and see if you agree with what they find.