After a grueling two weeks I have finally completed a first pass at the Mono 1.1.2 and Gtk# 1.9 Combined Installer for Win32.

Please read the email I sent yesterday to the list Mono-delvel-list

archives/public/mono-devel-list/2004-November/008830.html

THIS IS A PREVIEW RELEASE and may have more tweaking based on your feedback.

I am currently, working on some "Runtime improvements that will be very specific to Win32". These will be aimed at simplifiying application launching and coexistace between different versions of Mono installed on a Windows machine.

More to come in the next few days.

In the Linux front, I have been working with Ubuntu, SuSe 9.2 Professional and Novell Linux Desktop. My main computer for traveling is a Compaq Presario that is built like freaking truck and weighs about as much :)

This is an AMD 64 Athlon, 1 GB RAM and 60 GB hard disk that has an nVidia GForce 400 MX. I now have it configured With SuSe 9.2 Pro, NLD and Windows XP. Grub does all of the boot management. I am happy.

News about Paquito: I have not heard from him since the Falluja offensive started. As I tell friends and family, I have not heard from the Dept of the Army either -- so that is very good news.

I am so ready for IFLOSS in Puerto Rico. Kevin was telling me that I may become the Keynotes Speaker :)