Project single disk

Posted on March 10, 2005 by kenvandine

Now that Foresight Desktop is working pretty well, it is time to get it down to one disk. So the plan is to split out the packages into two distros, Server and Desktop. Who needs a database server on there desktop? Well, some people will. The solution is conary… yay!

Conary’s group handling is close to being ready for use. So I will create a number of groups. Maybe something like this:

group-dist – This will contain the core of the distro, things that are shared between both desktop and server
group-desktop – Desktop apps, GNOME, etc..
group-server – Server apps, apache, bind, etc..
group-developer – Lost of development tools

Desktop distro iso will contain group-dist and group-desktop, Server distro will contain group-dist and group-server.

I am sure there will be more, and maybe even some of this will change once I see how the groups work. These are just my initial thoughts.

Another thing I may investigate is hacking firstboot to do additional install work. Maybe the “Addition CD” module can be replaced with a new one that is install additional groups via conary, assuming there is a network connection. It should be a pretty easy hack. A user could select “Developer”, and it would just do a conary update group-developer.

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ANNOUNCING Foresight Desktop Linux 0.5!

Posted on March 10, 2005 by kenvandine

Foresight Desktop Linux 0.5 is available for download. Please download,
install and report bugs today! Also, check out our wiki. It is currently pretty empty and it needs some design help. Please feel free to create an account and start adding content!

Where to get it:

http://downloads.foresightlinux.com/

Changes since the last release:

* Updated to GNOME 2.10
* Conary updated to 0.50.2
* GNOME backgrounds are now included
* Added a notification area to the default GNOME setup
* lvm2 replaced lvm
* Some new versions
* A few tweaks and bug fixes…

What’s 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 the package list.

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So close

Posted on March 8, 2005 by kenvandine

Very close to having all of GNOME 2.10 cooked up, just waiting for tarballs of yelp, eog, and librsvg. So close I can taste it 🙂

As soon as they are out I will get them cooked and create new ISOs, 0.5. After the 0.5 release, they will slow down drastically and it should be pretty stable. It will also be easy to keep it updated with the snazzy conary tools.

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Beautiful NC Day

Posted on March 6, 2005 by kenvandine

What a great day….

Weather was perfect, high 60s, sunny, and blue skies. So we took Ashlyn (my 2 year old daughter) to the park in Chapel Hill. She had a blast… it was such a perfect day for the park.

We also took her to see the easter bunny, just to warm her up for the easter portrait we are planning to have done next weekend. Last year was a disaster, she just wanted nothing todo with the easter bunny. So, we thought we would stroll by today and let her see him. She was excited about going, until she saw him. He was great, waved, played peek-a-boo… all the right things… and still, she wanted nothing to do with him. What is it about a guy in a rabbit suit? Next weekend is gonna be painful 🙂

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Foresight Desktop Linux 0.4

Posted on March 5, 2005 by kenvandine

Foresight Desktop Linux 0.4, this is another alpha release of this new distro. Please download, install and report bugs today! Also, check out our wiki at http://wiki.foresightlinux.com. It is currently pretty empty and it needs some design help. Please feel free to create an account and start adding content!

Where to get it:

http://downloads.foresightlinux.com/

Changes since the last release:

Updated to GNOME 2.10 RC 1

Changed default theme to Clearlooks

Bugfixes and some updated packages

What is cool?

* GNOME — Foresight comes with GNOME 2.10 RC 1

* Conary — Foresight is built on the paradigm shifting conary package management system.

* Mono — Prepackaged Mono 1.1.4 and many mono apps, Beagle, Tomboy, Monodevelop, etc…

* GNOME Office

* Howl

And more… try it, you’ll like it..

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Gnome Blog included in Foresight Linux

Posted on March 3, 2005 by kenvandine

First post from the first version of Foresight Desktop Linux to come with gnome-blog installed by default!

By the way, FDL 0.4 is now available… official announcement will come later tonight.

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Foresight updates

Posted on March 2, 2005 by kenvandine

Updated to the latest GNOME today… looking good.

Added a new default theme which looks nice, Clearlooks.

Fixed Tomboy by grabbing the latest CVS, works well now.

Fixed default wallpaper, now it is scaled instead of tiled.

Things are really shaping up!

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Foresight Desktop Linux, 0.3!

Posted on March 1, 2005 by kenvandine

Foresight Desktop Linux 0.3, this is another alpha release of this new distro.

Please download, install and report bugs today! Also, check out our wiki. It is currently pretty empty and it needs some design help. Please feel free to create an account and start adding content!

Download it here

Changes since the last release:

  • Many bug fixes
  • Added missing packages
  • Firstboot now works, this version gives sudo access to the first user created
  • All application launchers that need root priviledges now use sudo
  • Removed duplicate application launchers

NOTE:
There is a problem in the installation that prevents a few packages from getting installed. Here are the steps:

Boot after install, don’t login. Switch to a console (ctrl-alt-f2) and login as root.

conary update sudo
conary update firstboot
conary update sound-juicer
conary update a2ps
conary update beagle

Then reboot. You will be greeted with firstboot, follow the wizard. The user that gets created here gets sudo access now.

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Lots of good stuff happening

Posted on February 27, 2005 by kenvandine

This weekend I hacked firstboot in Foresight so the first user added gets sudo access. Also added gksudo to all the apps that need to run as a privileged user. Now, users don’t need root for much, unless they are more seasoned Linux/UNIX geeks.

Also fixed many bugs since the first release (0.1) of Foresight. Things are looking good for 0.2, which I am working as I type this.

I think things are shaping up pretty good. I may be a bit biased 😉

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ANNOUNCING Foresight Desktop Linux!

Posted on February 23, 2005 by kenvandine

Foresight Desktop Linux 0.1, this is the first alpha release of this new distro. Please download, install and report bugs today!

What is cool?

GNOME — Foresight comes with GNOME 2.10 Beta 2

Conary — Foresight is built on the paradigm shifting conary package management system.

Mono — Prepackaged Mono 1.1.4 and many mono apps, Beagle, Tomboy, F-Spot, Monodevelop, etc…

GNOME Office

Howl

And more… try it, you’ll like it…

For more info, checkout our site (still a major work in progress) http://www.foresightlinux.com

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