LWE has announced their product excellence awards, interestingly Ubuntu is missing from the list but here are some other notable’s Zimbra’s Collaboration Suite (Ajax to the ma), Eclipse Callisto, No Machine NX (an open source alternative to Citrix), rPath rBuilder (a way to Build Linux distros on the fly), and NetDirector (systems management).
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 management process.
Anyone that watches the commits mailing list can see that I was a busy bee this weekend. All of GNOME 2.16 Beta 1 is commited and cooked on our new development label. I also created all the troves (and cooked them) on the new devel label. And the big thing, Xorg 7, all the sources are committed.
So what does the new release management process work? Glad you asked, for 1.0 we have @fl:1-devel (development) and @fl:1 (release). We will continue to maintain @fl:desktop until the 1.0 release. All cooking will happen on @fl:1-devel with a strong preference for rMake cooks. And only shadow to the release label.
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.
By popular demand:
dc9d2f3ef4feb1218b3db166b73f264b boot.iso
c4110025f68316714ba47de2af68e92f diskboot.img
967cf6c4d8f0fd3275567532d6e6dc18 foresight-0.9.5.rc2-x86-disc1.iso
e069cc38e7a36a4f0d95291567fd996e foresight-0.9.5.rc2-x86-disc2.iso
1aee233f4fc61b663ac634a6aa93c9a3 foresight-0.9.5.rc2-x86-dvd1.iso
I have posted Foresight on VMTN (VMWare Technology Network), go check it out… and please vote .
So I hear these folks at The Linux Store is offering up free CDs. Go an request a Foresight CD, it looks like they will ship it to you. Maybe if enough folks request them we will actually get listed 🙂
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
gnupg=1.4.4-1-0.1
gstreamer=0.10.8-0.1-1
gtk=2.10.0-0.1-1
gtk-engines=2.7.4-0.1-1
gtk-ubuntulooks-engine=0.9.11-2-1
hal=0.5.7-0.1-1
ImageMagick=6.2.8.1-1.1-1
inkscape=0.44-0.4-1
kernel=2.6.17.4
kudzu=1.2.38-0.0.1-1
mono=1.1.16-1-1
mplayerplug-in=3.25-1-1
NetworkManager=0.6.4-1-1
pango=1.13.3-1-1
perl-libxml-enno=1.02-6.1-1
poppler=0.5.3-0.0.1-1
pycairo=1.2.0-0.1-1
pygtk=2.8.6-0.4-1
PyQt=3.16-1.1-1
sip=4.4.3-3-0.1
sun-jre=1.5.0_07-2-1
sysreport=0.0.4-1-1
totem=1.4.2-2-1
unixODBC=2.2.11-1.2-1
xchat-gnome=0.12-1-1
xine-lib=1.1.1-2.1-1
xorg-x11=6.9.0-3.1-1
Additions:
gst-ffmpeg=0.10.1-2-1
ipw3945=1.1.0-0.1-0.0.1
rmake=0.5-1-1
gutenprint=5.0.0_rc3-1.1-1 Replaced gimp-print
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 🙂
Come and get it… you know you want to…
http://www.foresightlinux.org/downloads
What’s new you ask?
o nautilus default to browse mode
o New gtk/metacity theme
o New gdm theme
What’s been updated?
o GNOME Updated to 2.14.2
o conary=1.0.18
o ekiga=2.0.2
o evolution=2.6.2
o evolution-data-server=1.6.2
o evolution-webcal=2.6.0
o firefox=1.5.0.4
o gdm=2.14.8 (with the new Foresight theme)
o gimp=2.3.9
o gtk=2.8.18
o gtkhtml=3.10.2
o mysql=5.0.22
o opal=2.2.2
o pango=1.12.3
o postgresql=8.1.4
o vim=7.0
o XaraLX=0.5r1242
Additions
o gtk-theme-foresight=0.1-1-1
Bugfixes
o krb5=1.4.1
– Packaging bug was keeping multiple copies of krb5 installed
o libgcrypt=1.2.2
– Packaging bug that could cause errors installing group-devel
o libgpg-error=1.3
– Packaging bug that could cause errors installing group-devel
o system-config-date=1.7.18
– Version downgrade to work with firstboot
o system-config-display=1.0.33
– New version fixes an error that prevented it from running
I have been so excited about rMake, and now we can all use it. I urge everyone to check it out, it will give us much better packages…
I would also like to encourage all Foresight hackers to use rMake to do all cooking of troves that get committed. A note, buildRequires are very important… without a complete set rMake doesn’t know what to include in the build chroot. So the process is a little more time consuming, but worth it. Once we get all the buildRequires updated we should be much better off.
If you need help with rMake, #conary and #foresight on freenode are reasonable places to find it.
