ken’s blog

Pretty frustrated still, can’t duplicate the damn firstboot bug that so many people have witnessed. The going theory is a race condition between starting X and firstboot starting. The painful part is we rely on firstboot, and it fails for some people. I have tried to duplicate it more times than I can count and can’t. I just finished installing on the fastest box I can get my hand on, dual 3.2 GHz xeon… firstboot started as it should… I just wanted to scream. If anyone can duplicate the problem and get me any info… logfiles… tracebacks on console…any info… it would be appreciated!

Foresight Desktop Linux 0.8 is now available. It has been alot of work, been beating on Anaconda most of the week. This release includes some nice artwork, many thanks to Jon for his contributions. Anaconda has had a face lift, it looks great. We also have added a nice bootsplash, I am very pleased with the look. We have also made some significant strives in hardware detection/automounting. Applied some patches to hal/udev/gnome-volume-manager and libgphoto. Things work very well now. I can now plug in my camera and gtkam pops up and asks me to import my photos, sweet! Plug in my usbstick and it mounts it and opens a nautilus window. Pop in an audio CD, goobox pops up and starts playing. It all just works, I love it!

Download, play, kick the tires, report bugs, and enjoy.

Been a while since I have had time to write… There is much todo when you are expecting a baby so soon.

Update:

Foresight 0.8 is nearing completion, and should be pretty nice. We have updated many things and included a few more cool apps. We have also offically chosen a logo, so there will be more identity in this release. The anaconda installed has been updated to make the installs faster… and look much nicer :-). We have also incorporated a nice bootsplash theme into FDL, it looks great, imho.

There has also been allot of work on oversite, completely rewritten in python as well as an included gui.

You can probably expect a release of 0.8 within a week… and it will be worth the wait 🙂

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
create an account and start adding content!

Where to get it:
http://www.foresightlinux.com/downloads

Changes since the last release:
* Conary updated to 0.50.5
* Included a wallpaper with a proposed logo
* Slick new xscreensaver lock dialog
* bluefish and firestarter added
* Some new versions
* A few tweaks and bug fixes…

What is cool?

* GNOME — Foresight comes with GNOME 2.10
* Conary — Foresight is built on the paradigm shifting conary package
management system.
* Mono — Prepackaged Mono 1.1.4 and many mono apps; Beagle, f-spot,
Tomboy, Monodevelop, etc…
* GNOME Office
* Howl
And more… try it, you’ll like it..

For a rather crude list of included packages and versions, check out
http://foresightlinux.com/distro/packages.php

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 a new release 🙂

The Foresight community is really growing, which is really exciting. We have seen a pretty significant increase in traffic to the site and a ton of downloads. Also the mailing list and irc is getting used, as well as real contributions from the community. I want to thank everyone that has helped out… and definately want to encourage the continued contributions and also any new contributors. Thanks!