Elliot’s Blog

This past weekend I completed the migration of my gallery from a custom install to a proper appliance. In the progress of doing so upgrading to the latest release. This meant migrating a database and several gigs of images. I was amazed at how easy it was to pickup and move just the database, image [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]