Archive for October, 2007
Appliance Installer and IMAP on Gmail
I did some testing with the Appliance Installer with Foresight Linux 2 today. Turns out that end to end time to install for a complete GNOME based Linux desktop is 7 minutes. That’s right 7 minutes. That includes user interaction and everything.
Looks like anaconda is shaping up for an alpha release of Foresight Linux [...]
Posted: October 24th, 2007 under Uncategorized, anaconda.
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rPath Linux 2 Alpha 4 Released
Today we released rPL 2 Alpha 4. This has been a long time coming. It involved a few rebuilds of the distro from scratch and switching away from our old internal build mechanism to rMake. Hopefully now that we have alpha 4 out the door beta 1 will be coming down the pipe soon.
One of [...]
Posted: October 18th, 2007 under Uncategorized.
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PackageKit 0.1.0 Released
Over the past couple of months I have been working on the conary backend to PackageKit, a dbus abstraction for package management. Today the first version was released for public consumption. PackageKit is now shipping as part of Foresight Linux if anyone wants to try it out.
What this means for users:
This gives users a generic [...]
Posted: October 15th, 2007 under Uncategorized.
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Web Design
It seems like being an open source developer these days requires knowing something about web development and design. I am trying to setup some personal bits like a blog, wiki, gallery, and planet and I would like them all to have something of a similar theme. Everyone out there seems to have themes for each, [...]
Posted: October 1st, 2007 under Uncategorized.
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