http://blog.bentlogic.net The musings of a software engineer Wed, 07 May 2008 18:14:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://blog.bentlogic.net/2008/05/07/upgrading-to-firefox-3-beta-5-in-foresight-linux-2/ 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 ... http://blog.bentlogic.net/2008/04/11/flourish/ 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 ... http://blog.bentlogic.net/2008/04/03/flourish-in-chicago/ 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 ... http://blog.bentlogic.net/2008/02/28/foresight-installable-disk-image/ 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 ... http://blog.bentlogic.net/2007/12/21/packagekit-015/ 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. read more | digg story http://blog.bentlogic.net/2007/12/16/gnome-developer-kit-much-easier-than-building-from-svn/ One of the things I do at rPath is hack on Anaconda. We have decided to mostly standardize on Mercurial for our SCM. Since Anaconda, at the time, was managed in CVS, this meant that I needed to find a tool to convert a publically accessible CVS repository to a ... http://blog.bentlogic.net/2007/12/01/managing-sources-with-hg-convert/ 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 ... http://blog.bentlogic.net/2007/11/14/gallery-migration/ 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 ... http://blog.bentlogic.net/2007/10/24/appliance-installer-and-imap-on-gmail/ 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 ... http://blog.bentlogic.net/2007/10/18/rpath-linux-2-alpha-4-released/