Author Archives: kenvandine

Shuttle chooses Foresight for their new KPC

Posted on March 4, 2008 by kenvandine

Awesome news… Shuttle released a press release today: Shuttle Teams with Foresight Linux on $199 KPC City of Industry, CA., MArch 4, 2008 Shuttle today announced that the newly launched $199 KPC will feature the Foresight Linux operating system. With … Continue reading →

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3 years of Foresight

Posted on February 7, 2008 by kenvandine

Wow time flies… I just renewed the foresightlinux.{org,com,net} domains, which reminded me it has been 3 years since the first release of Foresight. My baby is growing up 🙂

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SCALE, this weekend!

Posted on February 6, 2008 by kenvandine

Just a reminder, I will be at SCALE in Los Angeles this weekend, hanging out with Kevin Harriss and Paul Cutler in the Foresight booth, swing by and say hi. I am also very excited to be doing the GNOME: … Continue reading →

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Getting started with the GNOME Developer Kit

Posted on January 28, 2008 by kenvandine

Joshua Hesketh has written some great documentation on how to use the GNOME Developer Kit. He has covered building, applying/creating patches, and contributing to the GNOME module of your choice . Thanks Josh! I would love to find a volunteer … Continue reading →

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So close

Posted on January 21, 2008 by kenvandine

Macbook Air vs. Commodore 64, amazing the Macbook Air wins 🙂

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Recent additions to the GNOME Developer Kit

Posted on January 20, 2008 by kenvandine

I added a couple of new things this week, and of course they will track trunk. vinagre – (Very cool to see avahi support) conduit Keep those suggestions coming!

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Keeping tabs on the GNOME Developer Kit

Posted on January 15, 2008 by kenvandine

I finally got around to setting up a commit mail list for the GNOME Developer Kit. If you want to keep an eye on what is going on, check it out. You can of course subscribe, or just follow the … Continue reading →

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GNOME Developer Kit updates

Posted on January 14, 2008 by kenvandine

It’s been a while since I have blogged about the GNOME Developer Kit. It has still been building daily, so plenty of updates. I have added some additional packages by request, hopefully they will help make it into an even … Continue reading →

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n810… trouble getting my discount

Posted on January 11, 2008 by kenvandine

So I finally got notification that I could get my n810 in the US… yay! Rushed over to the site they sent me to just to find out them rejecting my discount code. The error I get is “there is … Continue reading →

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FOSDEM 2008

Posted on January 8, 2008 by kenvandine

February will be a busy month, first SCALE in Los Angeles and later in the month FOSDEM 2008 in Brussels. There are a couple of *don’t miss* talks on the packaging track at FOSDEM this year: Conary Packaging: Simply Powerful … Continue reading →

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