Category Archives: Geek

Foresight is only translated as well as the applications included, which in the GNOME world isn’t really that bad. But there is always room for improvement and Foresight maintains quite a few things that haven’t been translated yet, website, wiki, … Continue reading →

Have you noticed how Linux desktops are getting more and more beautiful? Foresight Linux is one of those pretty distributions. The developers of Foresight pride themselves in delivering a Linux desktop that is not only functional, but also includes the … Continue reading →

Introducing Foresight Linux 1.0! Foresight Linux is a desktop-focused Linux system that just works. Our mission is to provide a truely useful desktop system that is friendly for the novice user, as well as flexible for the power user. Foresight … Continue reading →

For a long time now I have been looking forward to a better way to deal with cd/dvd burning than just wrapping a GUI around cdrecord. There are people working on it, libburn, but for a while I feared the … Continue reading →

Announcing the first version of the rBuilder package search/install plugin. It is still needs some UI work, but it works. To try it: sudo conary update raa-plugin-search=raa.rpath.org@rpl:1 The plugin utilizes the new search terms that rBuilder just introduced. Specifically it … Continue reading →

So there is a very cool new packaging feature in conary, derived packages. Read all about it… We should be able to use it quite a bit in Foresight, which will make package maintenance a fair bit easier. It is … Continue reading →

For those interested in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), the command line utilities for bundling images (I prefer to use rBuilder built xen images) are now packaged in contrib repository. sudo conary update ec2-ami-tools=contrib.rpath.org@rpl:1

I am very please to announce the release of Foresight Linux 0.9.9. What is new in this release? Compiz is now included. Also included GnuCash, GnomeScan, and the synaptics driver. There have been a number of version updates, here are … Continue reading →

Both of these releases are focused on the true appliance experience. You can now boot either of the following appliances and actually use them without the need for a command line. PostgreSQL appliance: 8.1.4 Download Include phpPgAdmin rAA plugin to … Continue reading →

Now that compiz works with AIGLX, I have switched back to compiz from beryl. Beryl has been working well… but is a but buggy and has an aweful configuration tool. Compiz is amazingly stable and gnome-compiz-manager is a pretty simple … Continue reading →