My friend and I had our first two customers over a month ago. He has the framed “first dollar” in his apartment. Yesterday, I got a lead for two more projects with a third coming in today. Two are repairs and one is an upgrade. I can certainly use the money – both of us can.

In other news, we’re still working on computers for the condos. Thus far a could prototype OS seems to be MCNLive. It’s built from Mandriva, so it has some user-friendly GUI tools. Otherwise, I am looking at Symphony OS. It’s not only quite different as far as user interface, but the development tools are Web based.

The user interface is basically the Mozilla renderer modified to sit on top of FVWM. You click in the corners to access needed actions and the background screen serves as a top level file manager. (It comes with a more normal file manager, ROX Filer.) The way the screen renders, no window can open larger than the display and no window can cover the four corner buttons.

Someone asked the developers why FVWM was chosen and the reason given was that it took some serious configuration to get Mezzo (what Symphony calls Mozilla-rendered desktop) to sit on top. IceWM was the original choice, but it would not work. Personally, I would like to see if I could get parts of Enlightenment to work underneath Mezzo. Enlightenment is supposed to be very configurable, even if it’s documentation has to be . In other words, you cannot view it online on or a Windows system. It has to be compiled and installed in Linux or a BSD.

Who knows? In any case, it feels good to think about these things again, especially if I can use a tool that allows me to setup something quickly and leave it alone. I might use T2 to build this distro…