Category Archives: Geek

Foresight Desktop Linux 0.6 is available for download. Please download, install and report bugs today! Also, check out our wiki at http://wiki.foresightlinux.com. Alot of content has been added, it still needs some look and feel work. Please feel free to … Continue reading →

Had our first logo submission, looks cool. Also, did lots of work on getting udev, hal, and gnome-volume-manager to play well. Looks pretty good, I think. Lots of other “tweaks” in the distro in general, probably getting close to needing … Continue reading →

Now that Foresight Desktop is working pretty well, it is time to get it down to one disk. So the plan is to split out the packages into two distros, Server and Desktop. Who needs a database server on there … Continue reading →

Foresight Desktop Linux 0.3, this is another alpha release of this new distro. Please download, install and report bugs today! Also, check out our wiki. It is currently pretty empty and it needs some design help. Please feel free to … Continue reading →

Added more stuff to Foresight… Wrote some content for the website, still need more. Cooked up GNOME 2.10 Beta 2. Created a custom GDM theme Reset some of the defaults in GNOME, like colors etc. Fixed some bugs… possibly introduced … Continue reading →

I have worked out the issues I was still having with Beagle, works great! I pulled a snapshot from cvs as of this morning, which seems pretty stable… so far 🙂 Also added a script to /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/ to start dbus … Continue reading →

Got Beagle cooked up yesterday in my repository… and it is cool.. Still have some issues to work out, but I think they are related to the inotify patch to the kernel. I need to figure out how to how … Continue reading →

Thanks to the fine developers over at Specifix, shadows are available! So, I have created a shadow of their main distro using the conary label conary.vandine.org@ken:desktop (this namespace will change when we think of a cool name). This shadow will … Continue reading →

Well, I have made progress towards my goal of porting Specifix Linux to PPC. I now have Ubuntu installed on my ibook with Conary installed and working. Yes, on my iBook. For anyone that has been reading this blog, I … Continue reading →