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Great party…

Yesterday was Drew’s 1st birthday, today we had a big party with lots of friends and family. Had a really great time, Drew smeared cake all over, and smerp slayed the dragon! We rented one of the giant inflatable house that looked like a dragon. The kids loved it, and it was so worth it. porkrynde seemed to like it the more than any of the kids, and smerp tried it out too. That was interesting…. smerp managed to get over on his back down in a corner cutting off the air flow, which deflated one side… and the dragon took a big dip. All the kids ended up on top of him and he couldn’t get up… We had to lift the corner to get him out, and he said something along the lines of “Help, help, help, this is not a drill”. It was funny…. especially since I wasn’t the one trapped in there.

All and all it was a great day. The weather was perfect, good company, and good times!

Drew turns 1!

So yesterday, April 28th, Drew turned 1! He is getting so big, nearly walking and eating nearly everything we eat. He also easily out eats his older sister. We don’t know where it all goes… but he sure likes his grub.

We had a nice little family dinner and cake last night, today is the bigger party

Announcing the 5th Maintenance release to Foresight Linux 0.9.4

Fifth Maintenance release in the 0.9.4 series

This is the fifth in a series of maintenance releases for Foresight Linux 0.9.4. These maintenance releases help you stay current and also ensure that new downloads include the latest stuff. To update to MR5, ’sudo conary updateall’, it’s that simple. There are new isos (both DVD and CD) and Virtual Machine images as well, http://www.rpath.org/rbuilder/project/foresight/releases.

Updates

conary 1.0.13
firefox 1.5.0.2
beagle 0.2.5
galago 0.5.0
abiword 2.4.4
gnome-power-manager 2.15.1 (New Tango look)
kernel 2.6.16.11

Added

alacarte 0.9 (menu editor)
gimp 2.3.8
inkscape 0.42
XaraLX 0.4r828

Tweaks

vte patched to support 256 colors (makes gnome-terminal support 256 colors)

Announcing the 4th Maintenance release to Foresight Linux 0.9.4

Fourth Maintenance release in the 0.9.4 series

This is the fourth in a series of maintenance releases for Foresight Linux 0.9.4. These maintenance releases help you stay current and also ensure that new downloads include the latest stuff. To update to MR4, ’sudo conary updateall’, it’s that simple. There are new isos (both DVD and CD) and Virtual Machine images as well, http://www.rpath.org/rbuilder/project/foresight/releases.

Changes in MR4:
* GNOME 2.14.1
* A lots of new versions
* Bug fixes

Foresight and Xorg 7.0

I am happy to be running Xorg 7.0 on my Foresight laptop now. Seems to be working well, though still needs a little work to make everything work the way it should. Mostly updates to rhpxl and rhpl so system-config-display works right. There is also an dependancy issue that is pulling in a old version i need to track down. And I have three packages that aren’t building now, pyxf86config, tk, and xterm. We need to track that stuff down then we should be ready to ship it!

Nice day for a cook out

To celebrate our big win at LinuxWorld, we had a nice picnic and played some volleyball. The weather was perfect, food was good, and we had a pretty damn good time playing some volleyball. It was very nice to get outside, get some exercise, and “bond” a bit.

Good work everyone!

NetworkManager bug fixed

I have been plagued with a broken NetworkManager since 0.6.0 was released (now at 0.6.2).  Odd thing is that it worked for others and not me.  Specifically we had confirmed reports that NM worked on Foresight with madwifi (I have an ipw2200).  Finally got it working… Should work fine for the masses now, try it and report results please.

Announcing the 2nd Maintenance release to Foresight Linux 0.9.4

Second Maintenance release in the 0.9.4 series

This is the second in a series of maintenance releases for Foresight Linux 0.9.4. These maintenance releases help you stay current and also ensure that new downloads include the latest stuff. To update to MR2, ’sudo conary updateall’, it’s that simple. There are new isos (both DVD and CD) and Virtual Machine images as well, http://www.rpath.org/rbuilder/project/foresight/releases.

Changes in MR2:
* New kernel, 2.6.15.7
* A couple version bumps
* Banshee MiniMode plugin
* Bug fixes