This blog item kind of falls out of the normal categories I allow myself here. But, it is definitely important and needs to be mentioned. The highly regarded Ubuntu Linux released version 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) earlier this week. The big news for those of us who use both Linux and Windows is that Ubuntu 7.04 can both read and write NTFS partitions...

Read Accessing the Files on Your Windows Partition

I haven't been able to get Ubuntu 7.04 to cleanly download yet (the download sites I've tried have all died after a fraction of the ISO file downloaded). But, I hope to get and install 7.04 within the next week and see if it can read and write NTFS partitions on a USB external drive too.