Category Archives: General

Blowing Rock, NC

Posted on October 15, 2006 by kenvandine

Back from a short family vacation in the mountains. We had a great time! Kids had a blast, and I think Laurie mostly enjoyed it despite getting hit with some nasty allergy attach. We stumbled on this great little lake, … Continue reading →

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Issue tracking in Foresight

Posted on October 1, 2006 by kenvandine

So we have finally setup issue tracking for the Foresight project. We have settled on Jira, which we use heavily at rPath. I have been quite pleased with it. Check it out at https://issues.foresightlinux.org. Please make sure you file those … Continue reading →

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A big thanks!

Posted on September 19, 2006 by kenvandine

Since the Foresight project started, we have had quite a few people contribute. And I have really appreciated that! For this last release (0.9.8), we had an enormous amount of help from António Meireles (aka doniphon). Without him, we would … Continue reading →

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Update from 0.9.5 to 0.9.8

Posted on September 11, 2006 by kenvandine

The update path from 0.9.5 and earlier to 0.9.8 is a little bumpy. We have smoothed it out a bit. It is more complicated than the average update for a couple of reasons. First the label change, going to our … Continue reading →

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Announcing Foresight Linux 0.9.8

Posted on September 8, 2006 by kenvandine

Still on the path to Foresight Linux 1.0. We want to do some more testing, but what we have is pretty close to what 1.0 will be. We are now on a new label, foresight.rpath.org@fl:1. This move is in preparation … Continue reading →

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Junior members of the rPath marketing team

Posted on August 31, 2006 by kenvandine

Got a couple junior marketers 🙂

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The road to Foresight 1.0

Posted on July 30, 2006 by kenvandine

We have started really working toward the 1.0 release scheduled for September 6th. Pretty exciting times, I must say. So what does the road look like? Couple big things, GNOME 2.16, Xorg 7, Conary 1.1, and a more structured release … Continue reading →

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Linkedin

Posted on July 19, 2006 by kenvandine

Am I the last person on earth to sign up on Linkedin? I guess I finally crawled out from under the rock, I am getting connected 😀 My profile, don’t be shy.

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Foresight 0.9.5.rc2 (2nd Release Candiate) available

Posted on July 14, 2006 by kenvandine

Come and get it! http://www.foresightlinux.org/downloads What’s new you ask? Kernel has been updated to 2.6.17.4, Xorg to 6.9 and we have added rMake 0.5. Added Sun’s JRE Updated: abiword=2.4.5-0.1-1 beagle=0.2.7-2-1 cairo=1.2.0-1-1 conary=1.0.23-1-0.1 dbus=0.62-0.1-1 epdb=0.9.1-1-0.1 evince=0.5.4-0.1-1 flashplayer=7.0r63-1-1 gimp=2.3.10-0.0.6-1 glib=2.12.0-0.1-1 gnome-sudoku=0.5.0-1-1 gnome-system-monitor=2.14.4-0.1-1 … Continue reading →

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New rPath World Headquarters

Posted on July 6, 2006 by kenvandine

We have moved into a new office, it is nice… and spacious. Thanks to all that made the move easy for me 🙂 Never mind the arrow, we are not sitting on the lawn 🙂

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