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Software Freedom Conservancy

kenvandine — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:07:39 +0000

I am very proud to announce that Foresight is now a member of the Software Freedom Conservancy. This is very exciting, we really love what the conservancy is all about and are in great company, and of course now we can accept donations. You can read the full announcement here and if you want to donate to the Foresight project, you can now find a Google Checkout donation form our the Foresight website.

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Conary BoF October 23rd, 7PM

kenvandine — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:47:17 +0000

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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What a great time in Ohio!

kenvandine — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 03:08:18 +0000

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 and Ubuntu Ohio Loco, was a real smash. We had the first 4 tables near the entrance, and was so much more crowded than the rest of the show. Linux on the desktop was obviously important to people this year.

Kevin did a great job running the Foresight, with some great help from Ryan, and Michael. We had 250 DVDs to give out, which I think ran out after just a couple hours, and lots of stickers.

On Friday night, Jorge Castro and I were invited to give a talk about GNOME on Saturday (another talk was canceled). Obviously with short notice, we had to do a little cramming to get some slides ready and figure out how we would tag team the talk. Fortunately I think both Jorge and I work best under pressure, and things seem to go off well (besides OOo eating Jorge’s work). I hope all that attended enjoyed it as much as I did.

In the afternoon, Michael and I hosted a Conary BoF. We had a pretty full room, and everyone seemed to “get it”. Lots of great questions, and we spent some time to really talking about the stuff we love. We even ran over by an hour, and nobody seemed anxious to leave… which must be a good sign

No question, I will be going back next year!

PackageKit in Foresight

kenvandine — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:07:08 +0000

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 testing. I would love to have some folks try it out and report bugs. If the bug seems to be related to conary, please specify the backend-conary component in bugzilla.

Current operations that are supported include:

refresh-cache
seach-name
search-details
get-updates
update-system
install
remove
get-depends
get-description

To get it:

sudo conary update PackageKit gnome-packagekit

rPath is hiring!

kenvandine — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:25:42 +0000

Yes… you heard right… we are looking for Engineers! Check out our jobs page for a list of descriptions. If you have any questions, curious about the work environment or just want to say hi, feel free to ping me … Continue reading →

rPath is hiring!

kenvandine — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:26:04 +0000

Announcing Foresight Linux 0.9.8

kenvandine — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 18:20:18 +0000

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 for 1.0, along with a new release management process. Our bleeding edge stuff will be cooked onto foresight.rpath.org@fl:1-devel, and shadowed to @fl:1 when it is ready for wide spread consumption. We will always strive to stay incredibly current.

Where can you get it?
http://www.rpath.org/rbuilder/project/foresight/releases

Here are a few of the highlights:

GNOME 2.16
Conary 1.1.3
rPath Appliance Agent 1.0.4
Xorg 7.1.1
Evolution 2.8.0
OpenOffice 2.0.3
Kernel 2.6.17.8
Mono 1.1.16.1

And lots of other version updates

Junior members of the rPath marketing team

kenvandine — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 02:11:44 +0000

Got a couple junior marketers

New rPath World Headquarters

kenvandine — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 15:02:20 +0000

We have moved into a new office, it is nice… and spacious. Thanks to all that made the move easy for me

Never mind the arrow, we are not sitting on the lawn

Announcing the 2nd Maintenance release to Foresight Linux 0.9.4

kenvandine — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 21:29:21 +0000

Second Maintenance release in the 0.9.4 series

This is the second in a series of maintenance releases for Foresight Linux 0.9.4. These maintenance releases help you stay current and also ensure that new downloads include the latest stuff. To update to MR2, ’sudo conary updateall’, it’s that simple. There are new isos (both DVD and CD) and Virtual Machine images as well, http://www.rpath.org/rbuilder/project/foresight/releases.

Changes in MR2:
* New kernel, 2.6.15.7
* A couple version bumps
* Banshee MiniMode plugin
* Bug fixes