Monthly Archives: March 2005

FDL 0.6!

Posted on March 22, 2005 by kenvandine

Foresight Desktop Linux 0.6 is available for download. Please download, install and report bugs today! Also, check out our wiki at http://wiki.foresightlinux.com. Alot of content has been added, it still needs some look and feel work. Please feel free to … Continue reading →

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Growing community

Posted on March 19, 2005 by kenvandine

Had our first logo submission, looks cool. Also, did lots of work on getting udev, hal, and gnome-volume-manager to play well. Looks pretty good, I think. Lots of other “tweaks” in the distro in general, probably getting close to needing … Continue reading →

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Thanks gd.o

Posted on March 12, 2005 by kenvandine

Thanks to the FDL announcement making it on gnomedesktop.org, we have seen lots of traffic. So far, the response has been great. Thanks gd.o!

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Project single disk

Posted on March 10, 2005 by kenvandine

Now that Foresight Desktop is working pretty well, it is time to get it down to one disk. So the plan is to split out the packages into two distros, Server and Desktop. Who needs a database server on there … Continue reading →

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ANNOUNCING Foresight Desktop Linux 0.5!

Posted on March 10, 2005 by kenvandine

Foresight Desktop Linux 0.5 is available for download. Please download, install and report bugs today! Also, check out our wiki. It is currently pretty empty and it needs some design help. Please feel free to create an account and start … Continue reading →

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So close

Posted on March 8, 2005 by kenvandine

Very close to having all of GNOME 2.10 cooked up, just waiting for tarballs of yelp, eog, and librsvg. So close I can taste it As soon as they are out I will get them cooked and create new ISOs, … Continue reading →

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Beautiful NC Day

Posted on March 6, 2005 by kenvandine

What a great day…. Weather was perfect, high 60s, sunny, and blue skies. So we took Ashlyn (my 2 year old daughter) to the park in Chapel Hill. She had a blast… it was such a perfect day for the … Continue reading →

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Foresight Desktop Linux 0.4

Posted on March 5, 2005 by kenvandine

Foresight Desktop Linux 0.4, this is another alpha release of this new distro. Please download, install and report bugs today! Also, check out our wiki at http://wiki.foresightlinux.com. It is currently pretty empty and it needs some design help. Please feel … Continue reading →

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Gnome Blog included in Foresight Linux

Posted on March 3, 2005 by kenvandine

First post from the first version of Foresight Desktop Linux to come with gnome-blog installed by default! By the way, FDL 0.4 is now available… official announcement will come later tonight.

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Foresight updates

Posted on March 2, 2005 by kenvandine

Updated to the latest GNOME today… looking good. Added a new default theme which looks nice, Clearlooks. Fixed Tomboy by grabbing the latest CVS, works well now. Fixed default wallpaper, now it is scaled instead of tiled. Things are really … Continue reading →

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