Author Archives: kenvandine

GNOME 2.14, I like the looks of this….

Posted on March 13, 2006 by kenvandine

Cool to see GNOME 2.14 about dialog

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GNOME 2.14 stuff showing up

Posted on March 12, 2006 by kenvandine

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, … Continue reading →

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LAMP on VMware Technology Network

Posted on February 27, 2006 by kenvandine

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

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Foresight 0.9.4.pre2 isos, qemu and vmplayer images

Posted on February 25, 2006 by kenvandine

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 … Continue reading →

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Foresight Desktop Linux 0.9.4.pre1 released

Posted on February 21, 2006 by kenvandine

I am please to announce another release of Foresight Desktop Linux. I am also quite proud to say we have reached conary 1.0, which is included! Great work by the Conary team, and many thanks! Virtually everything is updated, too … Continue reading →

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New house

Posted on January 14, 2006 by kenvandine

Well, yesterday was Friday the 13th and we closed on our new house. Very excited! Now begins the hell that is known as moving. Today I did some cabling. The house is 8 years old and didn’t have a structured … Continue reading →

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LAMP updated

Posted on January 10, 2006 by kenvandine

I finally got around to updating LAMP. It is nice and fresh now with all the latest versions available in the repository. I bumped the release version up to 0.99.3 to match rPath Linux, since LAMP uses nearly all rPL … Continue reading →

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Foresight Desktop Linux 0.9.3 released

Posted on December 15, 2005 by kenvandine

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 … Continue reading →

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Foresight Desktop Linux 0.9.2 released

Posted on December 10, 2005 by kenvandine

It has been a long hard road, but 0.9.2 ISOs are now posted. I will say they aren’t perfect, but a huge jump from the previous ISOs released. The most noticable bug is the lack of the bootsplash. It seems … Continue reading →

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rPath LUG Tour

Posted on December 6, 2005 by kenvandine

I have begun organizing a LUG talk schedule, getting the word out about Conary and rBuilder Online. You can find the schedule here. If you are interested in having a Conary hacker visit your LUG, please let me know.

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