Monthly Archives: September 2007

What a great time in Ohio!

Posted on September 30, 2007 by kenvandine

This was my first year attending the Ohio Linux Fest, and what a great event. I had a chance to meet lots of cool people and have some great conversations. The .ORG Desktop Corner, which consisted of Foresight, GNOME, Fedora … Continue reading →

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Ohio Linux Fest

Posted on September 28, 2007 by kenvandine

Michael K Johnson and I just made it into Columbus for Ohio Linux Fest. I am very excited, this is the first show that we will actually have a Foresight booth. Come stop by, we have some DVDs of 1.4 … Continue reading →

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Conary 1.2!

Posted on September 27, 2007 by kenvandine

Woot! Conary 1.2 has been released with many new features. Read the announcement for a run down of all new features/improvements. Foresight users will see it in their next update, enjoy!.

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Get Involved with Foresight Linux

Posted on September 26, 2007 by kenvandine

As Paul mentioned in his blog post, we are having a developer meeting on IRC (#foresight-devel on Freenode) next Wednesday, October 3rd at 1:00 p.m. EST. Anyone interested in giving back a little and helping to make the world a … Continue reading →

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PackageKit in Foresight

Posted on September 25, 2007 by kenvandine

PackageKit is still young, not quite complete, and the API is still in the works. However…. It has amazing potential and I am sure it will really rock. As of now, the conary backend is about 80% complete and needs … Continue reading →

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GNOME 2.20 Live

Posted on September 19, 2007 by kenvandine

The GNOME 2.20 Live images are all available now, come check them out at http://torrent.gnome.org. This time around I cut out the VMWare ESX and Xen domU images, just no real demand for them. So if anyone has a specific … Continue reading →

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Ahoy!

Posted on September 19, 2007 by kenvandine

New Foresight and GNOME releases on International Talk Like a Pirate Day — how much fun is that! I am very pleased to announce Foresight 1.4 with GNOME 2.20. In honor of Talk Like a Pirate Day, we are featuring … Continue reading →

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Fun with big wheels at OSCON 2007

Posted on September 12, 2007 by kenvandine

Sri and I met up for the Sun Party at OSCON back in July. Here is a picture (crap quality, sorry) of him in the big wheel races… I wish I could say he was the big winner Me pushing … Continue reading →

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Michigan!/usr/group, what a great group

Posted on September 12, 2007 by kenvandine

I really enjoyed getting to spend some time with the folks from MUG last night. Such hospitality, we were really treated so well, even had a limo driver provided (thanks Jim!). Thanks so much for having us. For anyone looking … Continue reading →

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Michigan!/usr/group here i come!

Posted on September 10, 2007 by kenvandine

Anyone in the Detroit metro area? Michael K Johnson and I are heading up to the Detroit area to talk about building appliances for the Michigan!/usr/group. We will be discussing software appliances, conary packaging, release management, and so much more. … Continue reading →

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