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I are very pleased to announce the availability of Foresight Desktop
Linux 0.9.4 with GNOME 2.14.  This release includes a number of updates:

GNOME 2.14
Cleaner, shinier Clearlooks theme
Tango desktop icons
Conary 1.0.6
Kernel 2.6.15.6
Avahi (AKA Rendezvous, Bonjour and sometimes Zeroconf)
Latest DBUS and HAL
GNOME Power Manager
Banshee
F-Spot
Beagle
Tomboy
and more…

Foresight Desktop Linux 0.9.4 is available as both CD and DVD isos,
and… drum roll please… VMWare Player and QEMU images thanks to rBuilder!

Come and get it, don’t be shy!  For help check out our mailing list or
visit us in #foresight on Freenode. 

Download it at http://www.foresightlinux.com

So Foresight has been tracking each new tarball released and now some of those are "2.14.x".  Pretty exciting, so we are just 3 days away from GNOME 2.14 release day.  Foresight will of course have a release the same day, with GNOME 2.14.  So expect Foresight 0.9.4 that day.

Of course thanks to conary, it is very easy to keep up with GNOME development.  Keep an eye out for the release announcement… it is good stuff.  One thing I have to mention, the current GNOME 2.13.x unstable stuff is very fast.  There has been huge performance enhancements since GNOME 2.12. 

I am happy to see a link to download a VMware Player image of the LAMP project I created on rBuilder Online. Check it out at VMTN. It is nice to see it in lights

Released new isos today, not much changed. A couple bug fixes, plus we now only ship gstreamer-0.8. Include 0.10 was just too problematic for now. Also including madwifi and ndiswrapper kernel modules again. This makes it much easier for folks to get online.

Also I am very excited to announce the availability of qemu and VMWare Player images. Thanks to rBuilder, we can now produce virtual machine images. Very cool!

Go and get it

The other night I published isos for 0.9.3, it is a minor update from 0.9.2. There was a nasty bug in anaconda that caused grub install problems for some users, that is fixed now. Also, system-config-display was broken, also fixed in this release. Not completely however, It fails during the firstboot process. This means you will get a default resolution of 800×600, to fix:

Desktop->Applications->Display

Configure your display and logout/login.

There are also a few updated packages, the only one to note is an update tango icon set… I LOVE THEM!