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.