Archive for 'foresight'
Upgrading to Firefox 3 Beta 5 in Foresight Linux 2
As some people may have noticed Firefox 3 Beta 5 has been pushed to Foresight Linux 2 QA and will soon be default in Foresight Linux 2.
The first thing that I noticed when I updated was that none of my extensions worked. After a few minutes of googling, I found that there are a couple [...]
Posted: May 7th, 2008 under foresight.
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Flourish
Finally got around to posting a few pictures from Flourish.
http://photos.bentlogic.net/v/Flourish+08/
It was really nice to have the chance to talk to people about Foresight and finally meet a few more people face to face. There was a lot of interest in the KPC from many of the attendees and in Foresight overall.
Posted: April 11th, 2008 under foresight.
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Flourish in Chicago
I’m headed to Flourish this weekend in Chicago. I’ll be helping out Kevin with the Foresight and Gnome booths.
Stef is going to be giving a talk on building appliances with Conary and rBuilder.
The conference is on Friday and Saturday, but we don’t fly out until Sunday night, so I want to find something to do [...]
Posted: April 3rd, 2008 under foresight.
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Foresight Installable Disk Image
I spent a couple of days last week figuring out what it would take a make an installable USB key of Foresight Linux 2. I knew going in that Anaconda could handle installing from hard drive, but I wanted to make sure that the installer had the same sort of automated feel that it has [...]
Posted: February 28th, 2008 under anaconda, foresight.
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PackageKit 0.1.5
PacakgeKit 0.1.5 was released today. This release includes several fixes to the Conary backend:
Better error handling - The backend reports errors to PackageKit rather than just silently failing. Now when you try to update your system if there is an error you should get a nice message in your notification area that details the error. [...]
Posted: December 21st, 2007 under PackageKit, foresight.
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GNOME Developer Kit: much easier than building from SVN
Arstechnica recently published an article on the GNOME Developer Kit that Ken put together. It is based on Foresight Linux and automatically built from a fresh SVN snapshot every night using rMake. The project can be downloaded from gnome.rpath.org for anyone to use.
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Posted: December 16th, 2007 under foresight, rMake, rPath.
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