Monthly Archives: September 2006

The great office suite debate

Posted on September 29, 2006 by kenvandine

For well over a year, Foresight shipped “GNOME Office” instead of Open Office. I got lots of grief about that…. literally hundreds of people have told me that I should ship Open Office instead. I have resisted, one of the … Continue reading →

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Ashlyn rode a horse!

Posted on September 22, 2006 by kenvandine

So today while I was at work, Laurie took the kids to Spence’s Farm. We have taken the kids their quite a few times, and it is always a big hit. Well today was a little different, Ashlyn was going … Continue reading →

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Banshee 0.11, check it out!

Posted on September 20, 2006 by kenvandine

New banshee release… very nice! sudo conary updateall Need I say more?

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A big thanks!

Posted on September 19, 2006 by kenvandine

Since the Foresight project started, we have had quite a few people contribute. And I have really appreciated that! For this last release (0.9.8), we had an enormous amount of help from António Meireles (aka doniphon). Without him, we would … Continue reading →

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xgl == pretty cool

Posted on September 17, 2006 by kenvandine

no idea why i resisted so long

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Update from 0.9.5 to 0.9.8

Posted on September 11, 2006 by kenvandine

The update path from 0.9.5 and earlier to 0.9.8 is a little bumpy. We have smoothed it out a bit. It is more complicated than the average update for a couple of reasons. First the label change, going to our … Continue reading →

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Announcing Foresight Linux 0.9.8

Posted on September 8, 2006 by kenvandine

Still on the path to Foresight Linux 1.0. We want to do some more testing, but what we have is pretty close to what 1.0 will be. We are now on a new label, foresight.rpath.org@fl:1. This move is in preparation … Continue reading →

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