Foresight Linux is a distribution which showcases some of the latest and greatest from GNOME. Some of the things that may not be mature enough for some of the other distros. Some of the more innovative things are included, like Beagle, f-spot, howl, and the latest hal.
Foresight Desktop Linux 0.6 Released
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I will get this iso like now now!
It’s a shame the boot images only allow you to mount ext and vfat so you don’t have to burn the 2 big iso files. It would be great if it supported reiserfs or ntfs for that matter. Posted on their Bugzilla.
I install foresight (full install) and my mouse look’s crazy … how can I fixit ?
I’ve installed foresight linux 0.5 a while ago, because I wanted to try out beagle and f-spot. And of course, Clearlooks as default theme was nice. Unfortunately it was really buggy and beagle didn’t work very well
But the most important problem I experienced was that it was painfully slow. I mean really slow. Much slower than Ubuntu e.g.
Anyway, I think it has potential and wish them goodluck!
You’ve gotta love it. If you have a company with 100 employees, every workstation can be running a different distro. Cool!
: )
I’m using mono and f-spot on ubuntu right now, f-spot is a very nice program & i use it regularily.
I like some of the other stuff that the livecd has too, and it would be nice to use them without installing.
having the newest x server with opengl for displays would be a bit nicer though
that’s the only jaw dropping new thing i haven’t got installed atm. beagle might impress me, tho, but i aint banking on it.
correction! i thought it was a liveCD .. not sure i am willing to install a whole new os atm, i have fedora 3 and ubuntu atm .. and that’s all the linux distros i want installed atm.
QUOTE: It’s a shame the boot images only allow you to mount ext and vfat so you don’t have to burn the 2 big iso files. It would be great if it supported reiserfs or ntfs for that matter. Posted on their Bugzilla.
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You can actually mount reiser and jfs – check the wiki: http://wiki.foresightlinux.com/index.php/Install_on_Reiserfs_or_Jfs
Bob, you wrote that you’re using mono and f-spot on Ubuntu. Could you plz tell me if those prorams (and of course Beagle) are in the Ubuntu repositories? I’m asking this because I’m really curious if it’s possible to do an apt-get install beagle…
Bob, you wrote that you’re using mono and f-spot on Ubuntu. Could you plz tell me if those prorams (and of course Beagle) are in the Ubuntu repositories? I’m asking this because I’m really curious if it’s possible to do an apt-get install beagle…
No apt-getting beagle on Ubuntu. This guide:
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/HoaryBeagleInstallHowto
Tells how to get it in the upcoming release. I’m trying to deb package it, but its very hard for me…
…ould not get the network cards to start .. no modprobe and ext3 also crashed.
Back tp FC3.
“Unfortunately it was really buggy and beagle didn’t work very well
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I installed Foresight 0.5 as well and did not have any problems with Beagle…though I only ran it for a couple days on a spare drive just to get to play with some new stuff…
http://www.linuxreview.net/blog/2005/03/18/6
It was awefully sloooowww though.
They speak of Corona on hteir web page—is this useful at this stage?
I’ll sure take it for a spin, it sounds interesting enough as to getting some bytes on my hard drive, downloading right now, the main server is pretty fast too!
btw version 0.7 was just released but apparently it’s not showing on the mirrors so I suggest dl’ing from the main server.
…ould not get the network cards to start .. no modprobe and ext3 also crashed.
Back tp FC3.
apparently this was a bug on 0.6, 0.7 is out and the problem should be fix
a breif introduction to coronary:
http://www.specifix.com/technology/conary.html
conary not coronary 😐