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I am very please to announce the release of Foresight Linux 0.9.9. What is new in this release? Compiz is now included. Also included GnuCash, GnomeScan, and the synaptics driver.

There have been a number of version updates, here are a few of the highlights:

Added

• compiz 0.3.4
• gnome-compiz-manager 0.9.14
• gnucash 2.0.3
• gnomescan 0.3.1
• synaptics 0.14.6
• raa-plugin-sysmon 0.16

Updated

• kernel 2.6.19.1
• conary 1.1.13
• raa 1.1.r466
• bash 3.2.3
• dbus 1.0.1
• glib 2.12.4
• hal 0.5.8.1
• beagle 0.2.14
• f-spot 0.3.0
• gimp 2.3.13
• openssh 4.5p1
• tomboy 0.5.1
• gaim 2.0.0beta5
• xchat-gnome 0.15
• banshee 0.11.3
• brasero 0.5.0
• gstreamer 0.10.10
• libipoddevice 0.5.2
• mono 1.2.2.1
• cups 1.2.4
• hplip 1.6.9
• sane-backends 1.0.18
• TurboGears 1.0b1
• gphoto-suite 2.3.0

How to get it?

Download from here. If you are already using Foresight Linux, you can get the update using the Foresight System Manager. In the menu, open System->Administration->Foresight System Manager. Select the “System Updates” link on the left and click on the “Check Now” button. This will look for available updates, when it finds the update simply click on “Apply Update”.

Both of these releases are focused on the true appliance experience. You can now boot either of the following appliances and actually use them without the need for a command line.

PostgreSQL appliance: 8.1.4 Download

• Include phpPgAdmin
• rAA plugin to set the web user’s password used to login to phpPgAdmin
• Note: This is the account that is used to protect the phpPgAdmin interface, once logging in with “web” user, you will need to login to the database as user “postgres” and no password.
• https://:8003 to access the rPath Appliance Agent
• http:///phpPgAdmin to manage PostgreSQL

MySQL appliance: 5.0.24 Download

• Include phpMyAdmin
• rAA plugin to set the web user’s password used to login to phpPgAdmin
• Note: This is the account that is used to protect the phpMyAdmin interface, once logging in with “web” user.
• https://:8003 to access the rPath Appliance Agent
• http:///phpMyAdmin to manage MySQL

Now that compiz works with AIGLX, I have switched back to compiz from beryl. Beryl has been working well… but is a but buggy and has an aweful configuration tool. Compiz is amazingly stable and gnome-compiz-manager is a pretty simple configuration tool. It doesn’t give you an interface to configure a million and one effects like beryl-settings does. But it gives you what most people care about.

We will continue to maintain both in the foresight repository, compiz as stable and continuous bleeding versions of beryl from svn. So you can choose
Personally, I think I will stick with compiz. It is nice, and doesn’t get in the way.

The LAMP appliance has gone through a bit of an overhaul and is now better than ever. You can now install or boot one of the pre-built virtual appliances and get a site up without ever touching a command line. This is an important thing for an appliance. You can manage the appliance with the rPath Appliance Agent, maintain your database with phpMyAdmin or phpPgAdmin and upload your site via ftp or sftp.

Lots of updates, including the new rAA 1.0.9. The rAA wizard now prompts you to set the password for the user “web”. This is an account that has permissions to both the document root of the website, and the admin interfaces for both of the installed databases.

Check it out at on rBuilder. For more information about the LAMP appliance, check out the wiki.