I am heading out of town for a family vacation, and will be mostly away from the computer. We have setup the gnome-live product in bugzilla, so please use that to provide feedback, request packages, and of course file bugs. I will look forward to a full inbox when I return.
Want to improve the coolest project on the planet? Too hard to build all of GNOME from source, just to use the latest development code?
We are delighted to introduce the GNOME Developer Kit, with daily builds of GNOME. It is currently available in VMWare live image and installable ISO forms.
Once you download it, you will easily be able to update it every day with PackageKit or Conary, so no need to download new versions. There will be new downloads available regularly, probably daily, so when you download it, it will be ready to go immediately, without waiting for additional updates. The best of both worlds!
Remember, there are many ways to get involved with GNOME, not just coding. We need documenters, translators, testers, and developers. For ideas, visit the GNOME Love page.
As we are actively developing Foresight 2, it might be a good time to look for a new default messenger. Pidgin has been good for us and sort of the defacto standard for linux desktops. However, I am very interested in the future and where messaging is going. Telepathy, calling themselves a “Flexible Communications Framework”, is very interesting. The idea of a common framework for accessing a variety of communications services is very appealing. Not only can this be used for messaging and presence information, but now other desktop applications could potential tap into that framework very easily, via dbus. The possibilities are very cool!
A number of the pieces are packaged up for the Foresight 2 alphas, including Empathy and Banter clients.
I am looking for feedback, should Foresight Linux 2 default to using telepathy for messaging, not shipping pidgin by default? Let me know what you think!
I am very pleased to announce the first alpha release of Foresight Linux GNOME Edition. Yes you heard that right, GNOME Edition. Foresight will no longer be GNOME only, there will soon be KDE and XFCE editions. There are quite a few things of note with this release, including both x86 and x86_64 support.
Check out the full announcement here.
Foresight Linux 2 is shaping up very nicely. We should be able to swing a FL 2 Alpha1 release later this week, very exciting.
A brief list of what’s new:
Stay tuned…
Woot! Foresight was just accepted for a dotORG booth at SCALE. What is SCALE? Southern California Linux Exposition in Los Angeles this coming February. Get venue for us, and the guys organzing it are quite cool. Also a big thanks to our chief cheerleader (marketing dude), Kevin Harriss for setting this up.
For those in the Raleigh area, don’t forget to come join us for the Conary BoF tonight @ 7PM. More info can be found here.
The Foresight Linux Project is proud to announce the release of Foresight Linux 1.4.1.
Foresight Linux is a Linux distribution for your desktop that features a rolling release schedule that always keeps your desktop up to date; a revolutionary package manager, Conary; the latest GNOME desktop environment and an innovative set of excellent, up to date packages.
Foresight Linux 1.4.1 features the latest GNOME (2.20.1), as well as introducing PackageKit. PackageKit is a system designed to make installing and updating software on your computer easier. The primary design goal is to unify all the software graphical tools used in different distributions, and use some of the latest technology like PolicyKit to make the process suck less. For more info, check out http://www.packagekit.org.
You can find more information about Foresight on our website at http://www.foresightlinux.org
We hope you enjoy using Foresight Linux as much as we do. Because your desktop should be cool.
GNOME Live images are available for 2.20.1, come get gettem’
Let’s talk Conary! If you have questions about Conary package
management, or just want to get together to chat with people using and
managing Conary-based Linux systems, join us at the Conary BOF! A BOF
(Birds-of-a-feather) is an informal information swap hosted by
enthusiasts of a particular topic.
Conary Birds-of-a-feather
Hosted by: Ken VanDine, Michael K. Johnson, and Stephanie Watson
Tuesday, October 23, 2007, 7:00 PM EST
rPath corporate office, 701 Corporate Center Drive, Suite 450, Raleigh, NC
We look forward to you joining us!
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