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LAMP refresh

The LAMP appliance has gone through a bit of an overhaul and is now better than ever. You can now install or boot one of the pre-built virtual appliances and get a site up without ever touching a command line. … Continue reading

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The road to a better Xorg

Was just reading a bit about plans for Xorg 7.3. The short version is no xorg.conf, completely dynamic. And possibly even hotplug for monitors. This would be a great thing for Linux on the desktop. Good configuration tools are lacking … Continue reading

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Tomboy: Now even cooler!

Just packaged up the a snapshot of the current cvs HEAD of tomboy which includes the cool new note pinning feature. It seems plenty stable, and imho a very useful feature. I practically run my life through tomboy, and this … Continue reading

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Beryl and intel, what a great match

Laurie has a Dell Inspiron 6000 that has had an early Foresight release candidate on it for a good year now. She finally said she wanted all the latest cool stuff and wanted a reinstall. I grabbed the latest isos … Continue reading

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Beryl and AIGLX

Seems the latest open source ati driver works with AIGLX and beryl. It is quite impressive, and I am glad to see the performance is at least on par with if not better than Xgl/Compiz. Foresight comes with AIGLX by … Continue reading

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Now Xen friendly!

rBuilder Online now supports generating Xen images! There are a bunch of appliances available already as Xen images, check them out. Included are 3 of my projects, MySQL Appliance, PostgreSQL Appliance, and the LAMP Appliance. To use any of these … Continue reading

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Announcing Foresight Linux 0.9.8.3

This release includes a bunch of version bumps and bug fixes. Most significant updates are Firefox 2.0 and Flash 9. Also sporting Conary 1.1.10 and rAA 1.0.7 which we have started to rebrand for Foresight. It still has the rPath … Continue reading

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Firefox 2.0

There has been so much hype about Firefox 2.0, I figured I would blog to let folks know it is available in Foresight. To get it: sudo conary update firefox Last night was like a big “Web browser” night. I … Continue reading

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Pumpkin patch… fun!

Made our anual visit to Ganyard Hill Farms today. As always, had a blast and the kids didn’t want to leave. Drew decided he had to actually lift a pumpkin I think I can… Yeah man, I knew I could!

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GConf diff tool

Now this is useful, a tool to diff your gconf settings and what is default. Very useful for a packager! http://www.robster.org.uk/blog/2006/10/17/gconf-diff-tool/

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