Category Archives: Geek

rBuilder, I love it!

Posted on September 16, 2005 by kenvandine

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

Posted on September 14, 2005 by kenvandine

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

Posted on September 14, 2005 by kenvandine

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 :)

Posted on September 12, 2005 by kenvandine

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

Posted on September 11, 2005 by kenvandine

New release today, fixing a minor problem (not too minor) with the ISOs shipped on Wednesday. Get it today!

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Footware :-)

Posted on September 10, 2005 by kenvandine

I love this!

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Foresight 0.9.0 released with GNOME 2.12

Posted on September 10, 2005 by kenvandine

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!

Posted on August 30, 2005 by kenvandine

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

Posted on August 27, 2005 by kenvandine

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 let … Continue reading →

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Google Talk

Posted on August 24, 2005 by kenvandine

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 kind … Continue reading →

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