GNOME Live

September 27, 2008 Foresight, GNOME, conary Comments Off

After some delays… sorry everyone, the GNOME 2.24 Live demos are available. Come and get them at http://torrent.gnome.org.

Appliance creation made easy

September 23, 2008 appliance-creator, conary, rbuilder, rpath Comments Off

After my post the other about the recent addition of the ubuntu platform in rBuilder Online, I had a bunch of inquires asking “What is this appliance creator thing?”  Let me start out by explaining that Appliance Creator isn’t actually a product or service of it’s own, it is a feature of rBuilder.  The goal here is to make it as simple as possible to take your application and create an appliance with JeOS to get it running.  You can import your application from an rpm, deb, or a tar/zip archive (not source), and with a few clicks of the mouse have an appliance that can be downloaded or booted in the cloud.

I have put together a screenshot tour, taking you through the process.  Please note the captions along the bottom, they should help explain what each step is all about.  Another handy hint, you can use the “N” and “P” for next and previous to navigate (using lightbox).

New Shuttle SFF box linux exclusive

September 20, 2008 Foresight, GNOME, kids, shuttle Comments Off

Shuttle computers just announced the availability of their latest small form factor box, the x2700.   Weighing in at a mere 4.5lbs and measuring just 7.3″ wide and 2.8″ tall, it is available exclusively with Foresight Linux.  That’s right, our friends over at Shuttle are very Linux friendly, and they continue to prove that.

The x2700 is available with your choice of the GNOME or the new Kid’s editions of Foresight.

Not only is the x2700 nice and small, it is also quite energy efficient featuring the new Intel Atom processor.

(L)9.8 X (W)7.3 X (H)2.8 Inches

Foresight Kid’s edition

September 18, 2008 Foresight, GNOME, conary, kids Comments Off

Foresight Kid’s edition is now available for your kid’s enjoyment.  I know my 5 year old has absolutely loved it.

The Kid’s Edition is  for children featuring a number of education and entertainment applications,  a customized GNOME desktop environment and an innovative set of excellent, up to date software applications.

The Foresight Kid’s Edition features the following applications:

Education

  • Tuxpaint, an award winning drawing program for children ages 3-12.
  • Tux Typing, and educational typing tutor for children.
  • GCompris, an educational software suit that includes many different activities for children ages 2 to 10.
  • Tux, of Math Command, an education arcade game starring Tux based on the class game “Missile Command”.

Entertainment and Games

  • SuperTux, a classic 2D jump ‘n run sidescroller with a similar style to the original SuperMario games.
  • SuperTuxKart, a 3D kart racing game featuring numerous tracks, characters and items.
  • Foobilliard, a 3D billiards / pool game.
  • GNU Chess, a chess game.
  • Super Maryo Chronicles, a 2D side scroller game featuring many different stages and levels..

Read more about it.

Ubuntu, meet rBuilder

September 16, 2008 appliance-creator, conary, rbuilder, rpath, ubuntu 1 Comment

I’ll bet that sounds confusing! Well it’s true, the base Ubuntu server platform is now available for building application images on rBuilder Online. What does this really mean? The addition of the Ubuntu platform will allow the rBuilder community to build application images based on either rPath Linux or Ubuntu server. The rPath Appliance Platform Agent is also included in the Ubuntu platform.

With this addition, the Appliance Creator has been updated to import debian packages, just like you could already import rpm, tar, and zip binary archives.

To use the Ubuntu platform, you have to either edit an existing product version or create a new one.  There is a drop down for selecting platform:

rBuilder Online is beta, and rPath’s imported Ubuntu platform is currently alpha. Please use them both and help us improve by filing bug reports.

Foresight Mobile USB installer

September 15, 2008 Foresight, General Comments Off

By popular demand, I have published a usb installer image for the Foresight Mobile edition.  To use this image, you will need to extract it and transfer the image over to your usb stick (1G or larger)

foresight-mobile-1.0-x86.img.bz2

sha1sum     74bb014c98d1c0fd832456f5062fbdcfec2d8075

To transfer this image over to the usb stick:


bunzip2 foresight-mobile-1.0-x86.img.bz2
sudo dd if=foresight-mobile-1.0-x86.img of=/dev/sdb
Substitute sdb for your usb device.

Because your netbook should be cool.

September 14, 2008 Foresight, GNOME, General, conary Comments Off

I am very excited to announce the first release of Foresight Mobile, specifically designed for the new class of netbook computers such as the ASUS Eee PC, Intel Classmate, and Dell E netbook and features a customized desktop optimized for smaller screens.

I have to give a big shout out to the great folks at Canonical for their work on the netbook remix project, which is used for the user interface in Foresight Mobile.

For more information and download links, please visit the Foresight Mobile Edition webpage at http://www.foresightlinux.org/mobile.html or you can read the release notes at http://www.foresightlinux.org/releases/mobile-1-0.html.

Because your netbook should be cool.