Category Archives: Geek

LAMP updated

Posted on January 10, 2006 by kenvandine

I finally got around to updating LAMP. It is nice and fresh now with all the latest versions available in the repository. I bumped the release version up to 0.99.3 to match rPath Linux, since LAMP uses nearly all rPL … Continue reading →

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Foresight Desktop Linux 0.9.3 released

Posted on December 15, 2005 by kenvandine

The other night I published isos for 0.9.3, it is a minor update from 0.9.2. There was a nasty bug in anaconda that caused grub install problems for some users, that is fixed now. Also, system-config-display was broken, also fixed … Continue reading →

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Foresight Desktop Linux 0.9.2 released

Posted on December 10, 2005 by kenvandine

It has been a long hard road, but 0.9.2 ISOs are now posted. I will say they aren’t perfect, but a huge jump from the previous ISOs released. The most noticable bug is the lack of the bootsplash. It seems … Continue reading →

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rPath LUG Tour

Posted on December 6, 2005 by kenvandine

I have begun organizing a LUG talk schedule, getting the word out about Conary and rBuilder Online. You can find the schedule here. If you are interested in having a Conary hacker visit your LUG, please let me know.

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the great group-dist remix

Posted on December 6, 2005 by kenvandine

So I gave up on our (Foresight) group structure last week and rebuilt it from scratch based on the latest rPL group-dist. We had shadowed it long ago… like the first week shadows worked 🙂 And since then the groups … Continue reading →

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Atari

Posted on November 19, 2005 by kenvandine

I finally got around to hooking up my Atari 2600 2.0 that I got back in September. It is pretty cool… The games are even simpler than I remembered them. Even pong… which I played for like an hour last … Continue reading →

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New gig!

Posted on November 14, 2005 by kenvandine

I am excited to say I started a new gig today… and I am still very much getting my feet wet. Anyone have a guess where??? rPath! I don’t suspect anyone is surprised to hear I believe in what rPath … Continue reading →

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Conary article on Linux.com

Posted on November 13, 2005 by kenvandine

Good article about package management on Linux.com. Highlights portage and conary. Also mentions Foresight 🙂

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LAMP

Posted on November 8, 2005 by kenvandine

I forgot to post about this when I did it… so this is playing catch up. When rBuilder Online went live, I created an appliance Web/DB distro, lamp.rpath.org. It is a Linux, Apache,{MySQL,PostgreSQL},{Perl,PHP,Python} appliance. Just the essentials, and with the … Continue reading →

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Atari 2600 Flashback

Posted on September 30, 2005 by kenvandine

Just got my Atari 2600 Flashback, pretty excited to get it hooked up and play some old games!

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