Author Archives: kenvandine

Project single disk

Posted on March 10, 2005 by kenvandine

Now that Foresight Desktop is working pretty well, it is time to get it down to one disk. So the plan is to split out the packages into two distros, Server and Desktop. Who needs a database server on there … Continue reading →

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ANNOUNCING Foresight Desktop Linux 0.5!

Posted on March 10, 2005 by kenvandine

Foresight Desktop Linux 0.5 is available for download. Please download, install and report bugs today! Also, check out our wiki. It is currently pretty empty and it needs some design help. Please feel free to create an account and start … Continue reading →

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So close

Posted on March 8, 2005 by kenvandine

Very close to having all of GNOME 2.10 cooked up, just waiting for tarballs of yelp, eog, and librsvg. So close I can taste it As soon as they are out I will get them cooked and create new ISOs, … Continue reading →

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Beautiful NC Day

Posted on March 6, 2005 by kenvandine

What a great day…. Weather was perfect, high 60s, sunny, and blue skies. So we took Ashlyn (my 2 year old daughter) to the park in Chapel Hill. She had a blast… it was such a perfect day for the … Continue reading →

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Foresight Desktop Linux 0.4

Posted on March 5, 2005 by kenvandine

Foresight Desktop Linux 0.4, this is another alpha release of this new distro. Please download, install and report bugs today! Also, check out our wiki at http://wiki.foresightlinux.com. It is currently pretty empty and it needs some design help. Please feel … Continue reading →

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Gnome Blog included in Foresight Linux

Posted on March 3, 2005 by kenvandine

First post from the first version of Foresight Desktop Linux to come with gnome-blog installed by default! By the way, FDL 0.4 is now available… official announcement will come later tonight.

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Foresight updates

Posted on March 2, 2005 by kenvandine

Updated to the latest GNOME today… looking good. Added a new default theme which looks nice, Clearlooks. Fixed Tomboy by grabbing the latest CVS, works well now. Fixed default wallpaper, now it is scaled instead of tiled. Things are really … Continue reading →

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Foresight Desktop Linux, 0.3!

Posted on March 1, 2005 by kenvandine

Foresight Desktop Linux 0.3, this is another alpha release of this new distro. Please download, install and report bugs today! Also, check out our wiki. It is currently pretty empty and it needs some design help. Please feel free to … Continue reading →

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Lots of good stuff happening

Posted on February 27, 2005 by kenvandine

This weekend I hacked firstboot in Foresight so the first user added gets sudo access. Also added gksudo to all the apps that need to run as a privileged user. Now, users don’t need root for much, unless they are … Continue reading →

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ANNOUNCING Foresight Desktop Linux!

Posted on February 23, 2005 by kenvandine

Foresight Desktop Linux 0.1, this is the first alpha release of this new distro. Please download, install and report bugs today! What is cool? GNOME — Foresight comes with GNOME 2.10 Beta 2 Conary — Foresight is built on the … Continue reading →

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