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FDL 0.6!

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
create an account and start adding content!

Where to get it:
http://www.foresightlinux.com/downloads

Changes since the last release:
* Conary updated to 0.50.5
* Included a wallpaper with a proposed logo
* Slick new xscreensaver lock dialog
* bluefish and firestarter added
* Some new versions
* A few tweaks and bug fixes…

What is cool?

* GNOME — Foresight comes with GNOME 2.10
* Conary — Foresight is built on the paradigm shifting conary package
management system.
* Mono — Prepackaged Mono 1.1.4 and many mono apps; Beagle, f-spot,
Tomboy, Monodevelop, etc…
* GNOME Office
* Howl
And more… try it, you’ll like it..

For a rather crude list of included packages and versions, check out
http://foresightlinux.com/distro/packages.php

Growing community

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 a new release

The Foresight community is really growing, which is really exciting. We have seen a pretty significant increase in traffic to the site and a ton of downloads. Also the mailing list and irc is getting used, as well as real contributions from the community. I want to thank everyone that has helped out… and definately want to encourage the continued contributions and also any new contributors. Thanks!

Thanks gd.o

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!

Project single disk

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 desktop? Well, some people will. The solution is conary… yay!

Conary’s group handling is close to being ready for use. So I will create a number of groups. Maybe something like this:

group-dist – This will contain the core of the distro, things that are shared between both desktop and server
group-desktop – Desktop apps, GNOME, etc..
group-server – Server apps, apache, bind, etc..
group-developer – Lost of development tools

Desktop distro iso will contain group-dist and group-desktop, Server distro will contain group-dist and group-server.

I am sure there will be more, and maybe even some of this will change once I see how the groups work. These are just my initial thoughts.

Another thing I may investigate is hacking firstboot to do additional install work. Maybe the “Addition CD” module can be replaced with a new one that is install additional groups via conary, assuming there is a network connection. It should be a pretty easy hack. A user could select “Developer”, and it would just do a conary update group-developer.

ANNOUNCING Foresight Desktop Linux 0.5!

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 adding content!

Where to get it:

http://downloads.foresightlinux.com/

Changes since the last release:

* Updated to GNOME 2.10
* Conary updated to 0.50.2
* GNOME backgrounds are now included
* Added a notification area to the default GNOME setup
* lvm2 replaced lvm
* Some new versions
* A few tweaks and bug fixes…

What’s cool?

* GNOME — Foresight comes with GNOME 2.10
* Conary — Foresight is built on the paradigm shifting conary package management system.
* Mono — Prepackaged Mono 1.1.4 and many mono apps; Beagle, f-spot, Tomboy, Monodevelop, etc…
* GNOME Office
* Howl
And more… try it, you’ll like it..

For a rather crude list of included packages and versions, check out the package list.

So close

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, 0.5. After the 0.5 release, they will slow down drastically and it should be pretty stable. It will also be easy to keep it updated with the snazzy conary tools.

Beautiful NC Day

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 park.

We also took her to see the easter bunny, just to warm her up for the easter portrait we are planning to have done next weekend. Last year was a disaster, she just wanted nothing todo with the easter bunny. So, we thought we would stroll by today and let her see him. She was excited about going, until she saw him. He was great, waved, played peek-a-boo… all the right things… and still, she wanted nothing to do with him. What is it about a guy in a rabbit suit? Next weekend is gonna be painful

Foresight Desktop Linux 0.4

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 free to create an account and start adding content!

Where to get it:

http://downloads.foresightlinux.com/

Changes since the last release:

Updated to GNOME 2.10 RC 1

Changed default theme to Clearlooks

Bugfixes and some updated packages

What is cool?

* GNOME — Foresight comes with GNOME 2.10 RC 1

* Conary — Foresight is built on the paradigm shifting conary package management system.

* Mono — Prepackaged Mono 1.1.4 and many mono apps, Beagle, Tomboy, Monodevelop, etc…

* GNOME Office

* Howl

And more… try it, you’ll like it..

Gnome Blog included in Foresight Linux

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.

Foresight updates

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 shaping up!