Author Archives: kenvandine
The great office suite debate
For well over a year, Foresight shipped “GNOME Office” instead of Open Office. I got lots of grief about that…. literally hundreds of people have told me that I should ship Open Office instead. I have resisted, one of the … Continue reading
Ashlyn rode a horse!
So today while I was at work, Laurie took the kids to Spence’s Farm. We have taken the kids their quite a few times, and it is always a big hit. Well today was a little different, Ashlyn was going … Continue reading
Banshee 0.11, check it out!
New banshee release… very nice! sudo conary updateall Need I say more?
A big thanks!
Since the Foresight project started, we have had quite a few people contribute. And I have really appreciated that! For this last release (0.9.8), we had an enormous amount of help from António Meireles (aka doniphon). Without him, we would … Continue reading
Update from 0.9.5 to 0.9.8
The update path from 0.9.5 and earlier to 0.9.8 is a little bumpy. We have smoothed it out a bit. It is more complicated than the average update for a couple of reasons. First the label change, going to our … Continue reading
Announcing Foresight Linux 0.9.8
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 … Continue reading
Junior members of the rPath marketing team
Got a couple junior marketers
Virtualization and Linux – Match made in heaven
Jason Brooks provides some interesting commentary on some of the approaches different vendors are taking to unlocking the inherent power that virtualization + Linux will deliver. read more | digg story
Xorg 7 now works…
We have now gotten all of xorg 7.0 cooked up with rMake in @fl:1-devel. And with much help from doniphon, we now have a functioning Xorg 7. We are now getting the rest of the foresight packages cooked with rMake. … Continue reading
