The past few days have been another massive leap onto the bleeding edge for me.   Once again working at our Broomfield Colorado campus, I'm attending meetings about and working technical issues on Sun's Big IT Project.   At the same time.   With everyone's kind understanding, I might add.

Due to various technical restrictions and requirements, here I sit, using my lightweight UltraSPARC NatureTech 737S laptop, running Nevada Build 55 (or as uname reports, "SunOS 5.11 snv_55b"), Firefox, Thunderbird, and IBIS.

Until Sunday, I was running Solaris 8 on this system.   Even on my desktop in my office, I consider running Solaris 10 and Gnome to be...   well...   rather progressive for me.

But now, thanks to efforts of my local sysadmin Georg, I have moved to the open source community version of Solaris, I've gone from Mozilla 1.7 to Firefox 2.0, shifted from Mozilla mail to Thunderbird mail, from Staroffice 7 to StarOffice 8, said goodbye to OpenWindows one last time, and learned to really work (not just play around) with a laptop.   As some have been so very kind to point out, it appears I have finally joined my peers in the 21st century.

So far, I have to admit, this little system has never been as stable and happy as it is right now.   Maybe the bleeding edge really is the leading edge after all...