Category Archives: Geek

Banshee plugins

Posted on October 17, 2006 by kenvandine

I packaged up some banshee plugins, the alarm, beagle and show track on change plugins. You can find them in foresight.rpath.org@fl:1-contrib (which is in your path if you are using Foresight). For info check out http://banshee-project.org/PluginRepository sudo conary update banshee-alarm-plugin … Continue reading →

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Version 2.0 of JonDesign’s SmoothSlideshow Javascript Library is out

Posted on October 12, 2006 by kenvandine

The new version of this impressive little tool features useability improvements, major code rewrite (now using MooTools and objects), graphic changes and bugfixes. As always, this lib provides a simple way to install great looking slideshow or showcases to your … Continue reading →

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Cool new screenshot interface

Posted on October 8, 2006 by kenvandine

Jon has integrated his smoothslideshow stuff into our Screenshot page. Check it out, it is pretty slick.

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Announcing Foresight Linux 0.9.8.2

Posted on October 6, 2006 by kenvandine

I am very pleased to announce Foresight 0.9.8.2. This is an incremental release to the 0.9.8 series. Xorg now includes AIGLX support by default, beryl (compiz fork) will be coming real soon. GNOME has been updated to 2.16.1. Other updates: … Continue reading →

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New website is up

Posted on October 5, 2006 by kenvandine

The Foresight website has been rebuilt using Django. The new site looks pretty similar, but is really a big step forward for us. For starters, the planet is back. The new planet is actually running Feedjack, a django based feed … Continue reading →

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just do it!

Posted on October 4, 2006 by kenvandine

I had a random private message on freenode today, gave me a laugh. Foresight 1.0, just do it! I assume this is in reference to António Meireles’ post today about the impending 0.9.8.2 release. If only “just do it” wasn’t … Continue reading →

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Issue tracking in Foresight

Posted on October 1, 2006 by kenvandine

So we have finally setup issue tracking for the Foresight project. We have settled on Jira, which we use heavily at rPath. I have been quite pleased with it. Check it out at https://issues.foresightlinux.org. Please make sure you file those … Continue reading →

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The great office suite debate

Posted on September 29, 2006 by kenvandine

For well over a year, Foresight shipped “GNOME Office” instead of Open Office. I got lots of grief about that…. literally hundreds of people have told me that I should ship Open Office instead. I have resisted, one of the … Continue reading →

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Banshee 0.11, check it out!

Posted on September 20, 2006 by kenvandine

New banshee release… very nice! sudo conary updateall Need I say more?

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A big thanks!

Posted on September 19, 2006 by kenvandine

Since the Foresight project started, we have had quite a few people contribute. And I have really appreciated that! For this last release (0.9.8), we had an enormous amount of help from António Meireles (aka doniphon). Without him, we would … Continue reading →

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