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rBuilder, I love it!
Well, I can finally talk about how we build our ISOs for Foresight. rPath has a great tool (beta) called rBuilder. Think of rBuilder as a SourceForge like service for Linux distros. It provides me the tools to manage the … Continue reading
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0.9.0 -> 0.9.0.1
I had mentioned a small bug in 0.9.0 that made us create 0.9.0.1 ISOs. The issue is related to renaming our conary label. It was conary.foresightlinux.com@fl:desktop, we renamed it foresight.rpath.org@fl:desktop. The ISO contained changesets with both labels. This causes problems … Continue reading
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0.9.0 -> 0.9.0.1
I had mentioned a small bug in 0.9.0 that made us create 0.9.0.1 ISOs. The issue is related to renaming our conary label. It was conary.foresightlinux.com@fl:desktop, we renamed it foresight.rpath.org@fl:desktop. The ISO contained changesets with both labels. This causes problems … Continue reading
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Foresight, featured distro of the week :)
Ok, I love seeing this too… Foresight Linux is the featured distro of the week on Distro Watch. They included a nice little write up about us, makes me feel oh so good!
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Foresight Linux 0.9.0.1 released
New release today, fixing a minor problem (not too minor) with the ISOs shipped on Wednesday. Get it today!
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Foresight 0.9.0 released with GNOME 2.12
Well, we did it… released Foresight Desktop Linux 0.9.0 on GNOME 2.12 release day. Been such a crazy week, that I haven’t had a chance to blog about it. Looks pretty good, and am quite excited about it. Here is … Continue reading
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Foresight 0.8.2 ready!
Tonight we got 0.8.2 cooked up and ready to go. Those of you already on Foresight, make sure conary is updated and sudo conary update group-dist. I hope to have ISOs up soon. There will be an official announcement when … Continue reading
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GNOME 2.12 Release Candidate
GNOME 2.12 Release Candidate is available in the Foresight repo now. To try it out: sudo conary update group-gnome=conary.foresightlinux.com@fl:test \ evolution=conary.foresightlinux.com@fl:test \ evolution-data-server=conary.foresightlinux.com@fl:test \ gaim=conary.foresightlinux.com@fl:test WARNING: This is barely tested, so… you are warned 😀 If you find problems, please … Continue reading
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Google Talk
I am sure there will be many posts about this… but I don’t care 🙂 All I can say is “You go Google!”. Google has a real talent for offering high quality (and useful) services and they get the right … Continue reading
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