"But it"s way better to have people liking your activity, knowing your story, than to be a billionaire donating more cash than you can spend to make a branded product out of your software."

Avid Linux user Tom Russell, who has written a generic version on customizing Dyne 1.4, said the new version of Dyne was "geek heaven" and definitely worth downloading.

To use a stable version of Dyne:bolic go here: www.dynebolic.org. To get involved in the beta of Dyne:bolicII go here: http://dev.dynebolic.org Alternatively, for something different, going to Russell"s How To page explains how to http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/14628.html customize Dyne 1.4 to run his "SCOOL application from a bootable CD.

"I had to rewrite "SCOOL a bit to suit the squash module approach," he said. "This actually only involved changing some shell script variable assignments and changing the Runtime Revolution transcript for the same reason, as it originally resided in $HOME. Now it can support multiple users on the same system, which is a much better approach."