Category Archives: Geek

GNOME 2.18.1 images are now available for QEMU/Parrallels and VMware. I hope to have a new Live CD image real soon now. You can get them from http://torrent.gnome.org or from rBuilder Also note, I didn’t build the the Microsoft VHD … Continue reading →

I was really struck by a comment in this review of Foresight. The nice thing about it though, is that its well documented and the Foresight Linux wiki has loads of documentation included. I can’t take any credit for the … Continue reading →

So Paul got affinity packaged up for Foresight today, I have to say I am impressed! Compliments avant-window-navigator nicely… keep up the great work! They both require compiz to be enabled, but so worth it. To try it: sudo conary … Continue reading →

Thanks to Stef’s excellent work, we have a new default GDM theme. The old one has served us well, but it is time for a change. Thanks Stef, great work!

This is good news, Dell plans to ship pre-install linux destops. They haven’t announced which distro yet, I wonder who I need to buy a beer to get them to select Foresight Linux as the default 😀

We are back to this question… A while back I got pressured into making Foresight default to OpenOffice.org instead of GNOME Office. Now it is really time to re-evaluate that decision. Our version of OpenOffice doesn’t include any translations. And … Continue reading →

Great news, Beryl is merging with Compiz. Of course they are retaining the right to fork again 🙂 Read more in this email from Quinn Storm.

The GNOME 2.18 Live Demos are now available on http://torrent.gnome.org, enjoy! On a related note… that site has a GNOME LiveCD graphic, anyone want to do one that is more generic that would be suited for the multiple demo types? … Continue reading →

A picture says it all

As with all GNOME releases, it is time for a Foresight release including the latest GNOME release. The Foresight Project is proud to announce it’s 1.1 release, for information please check out the release notes.