Author Archives: kenvandine

LinuxWorld Expo Announces Finalists for Product Excellence Awards

Posted on August 2, 2006 by kenvandine

LWE has announced their product excellence awards, interestingly Ubuntu is missing from the list but here are some other notable’s Zimbra’s Collaboration Suite (Ajax to the ma), Eclipse Callisto, No Machine NX (an open source alternative to Citrix), rPath rBuilder … Continue reading →

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The road to Foresight 1.0

Posted on July 30, 2006 by kenvandine

We have started really working toward the 1.0 release scheduled for September 6th. Pretty exciting times, I must say. So what does the road look like? Couple big things, GNOME 2.16, Xorg 7, Conary 1.1, and a more structured release … Continue reading →

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Linkedin

Posted on July 19, 2006 by kenvandine

Am I the last person on earth to sign up on Linkedin? I guess I finally crawled out from under the rock, I am getting connected My profile, don’t be shy.

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MD5SUMs for 0.9.5.rc2

Posted on July 18, 2006 by kenvandine

By popular demand: dc9d2f3ef4feb1218b3db166b73f264b boot.iso c4110025f68316714ba47de2af68e92f diskboot.img 967cf6c4d8f0fd3275567532d6e6dc18 foresight-0.9.5.rc2-x86-disc1.iso e069cc38e7a36a4f0d95291567fd996e foresight-0.9.5.rc2-x86-disc2.iso 1aee233f4fc61b663ac634a6aa93c9a3 foresight-0.9.5.rc2-x86-dvd1.iso

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Foresight posted on VMTN

Posted on July 18, 2006 by kenvandine

I have posted Foresight on VMTN (VMWare Technology Network), go check it out… and please vote .

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Want Foresight CDs?

Posted on July 14, 2006 by kenvandine

So I hear these folks at The Linux Store is offering up free CDs. Go an request a Foresight CD, it looks like they will ship it to you. Maybe if enough folks request them we will actually get listed … Continue reading →

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Foresight 0.9.5.rc2 (2nd Release Candiate) available

Posted on July 14, 2006 by kenvandine

Come and get it! http://www.foresightlinux.org/downloads What’s new you ask? Kernel has been updated to 2.6.17.4, Xorg to 6.9 and we have added rMake 0.5. Added Sun’s JRE Updated: abiword=2.4.5-0.1-1 beagle=0.2.7-2-1 cairo=1.2.0-1-1 conary=1.0.23-1-0.1 dbus=0.62-0.1-1 epdb=0.9.1-1-0.1 evince=0.5.4-0.1-1 flashplayer=7.0r63-1-1 gimp=2.3.10-0.0.6-1 glib=2.12.0-0.1-1 gnome-sudoku=0.5.0-1-1 gnome-system-monitor=2.14.4-0.1-1 … Continue reading →

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New rPath World Headquarters

Posted on July 6, 2006 by kenvandine

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

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Announcing the 1st release candidate for Foresight 0.9.5 (0.9.5.rc1)

Posted on June 19, 2006 by kenvandine

Come and get it… you know you want to… http://www.foresightlinux.org/downloads What’s new you ask? o nautilus default to browse mode o New gtk/metacity theme o New gdm theme What’s been updated? o GNOME Updated to 2.14.2 o conary=1.0.18 o ekiga=2.0.2 … Continue reading →

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rMake, a better way to cook

Posted on May 30, 2006 by kenvandine

I have been so excited about rMake, and now we can all use it. I urge everyone to check it out, it will give us much better packages… I would also like to encourage all Foresight hackers to use rMake … Continue reading →

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