Submitted by Distrowatch did the first review of Foresight Linux 1.0. They conclude: “Overall, despite a few early glitches while installing Foresight Linux 1.0, this distribution has turned out to be very usable system with an excellent package management utility and a unique, web based system configuration manager. It is clearly designed for users who enjoy GNOME and Mono software on their desktops or those who want to try the latest versions of these applications.”
yeah, it looked good with the screenshots and i’m trying to become more familiar with gnome. but, i had a miserable time with setting a good screen resolution and my dsl would not connect. i checked out the forums and didn’t see any reasonable help, and then i emailed ken vandine for his thoughts. his less than enthusiastic response with me was that he didn’t really know pppoe configuration for brasil. this guy is the lead developer for foresight linux ? maybe he can get some inside help from the team of dreamlinux….
Well, YOU obviously didn’t know how to set up pppoe, so why would you expect someone else unfamiliar with your particular setup to know how to do it? Foresight is a brilliant up and coming distribution.
Maybe you should stop abusing the developer and do a little googling – Roaring Penguin is your friend: http://www.roaringpenguin.com/en/penguin/openSourceProducts/rpPppoe
More reading, less abusing.
his less than enthusiastic response with me was that he didn’t really know pppoe configuration for brasil.
Is he from Brazil? If not, how he would know such stettings?
gee, doesn’t pppoe configuration work the same in any location ? username + password = internet access. those are the settings that pclinux and dreamlinux offer in their forum base….and they work very effeciently.
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Some providers like to screw with the system, like T-Com here in Germany. Instead of having just a password and a username they insist on giving you 4 numbers. They try to force you to use their software that way but you can also mash the numbers together in a rather unintuitive way to use pppoe like normal providers do.
As to the problem with resolution and pppoe there is documentation on the internet and on your computer. For the resolution try man xconfig and for pppoe try man adsl.
Looks really great. I think it’s one of the best looking GNOME distro so far.
Foresight Linux was the first distro who introduced Mono (after SUSE of course) in the default installation and I respect the author(s) for having the balls to do it.
I am downloading it, which package does it use rpm or deb ?
It uses Conary. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conary_(package_manager)
Its a new type of package management system that can partially update packages (only files in the package that need updating instead of downloading the whole package with new version).
It is used by rPath that Foresight is based on. Read more about it here: http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Conary:Overview
Wow, you download random distributions without knowing the first thing about them? Well, at least you’re not afraid to try new things…
Conary is pretty sweet. It’s both a package manager and a revision control systems. Perhaps the first “new-school” packaging system that actually tries to make the upstream developer’s job easier.
Surely downloading random distributions is one of the best ways of learning things about them?
There’s always time for checking documentation later if it uses something completely non-standard.
Yeah, sure, but I normally take a look at the web page first. You know, see how active the forums are and whatever.
Truth be told, I don’t really try distributions anymore. I cured my distro-junkyism several years ago when I convinced myself of one seemingly fundamental truth: you rarely like a new distribution more than the one you’re most comfortable with.
At first I bounced around a little, didn’t really like Red Hat 6.2 or Mandrake 7.0 or Slackware or Debian Potato. I found Gentoo in early 2002 and have been using that predominantly ever since. I played around with Arch (even wrote an advanced installer for it), but it just wasn’t big enough to keep up-to-date the way Gentoo does. I tried Ubuntu because it was so popular, and I still use it as my favorite LiveCD, but it isn’t as comfortable for me day-to-day.
If some distribution becomes so big and everyone starts buzzing about it, then I’ll give it a whirl. But I won’t try little distributions unless their philosophy really resonates with me (like Gentoo and Arch did). Because otherwise I know I’ll just end up being uncomfortable. And I just don’t have the time anymore.
And that, sir, is the crux{,gentoo,ubuntu, slackware,redhat} of the issue!
Well done.
that stuff about metisse looks very interesting. http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20070129#news
It turns out that flipping windows into the plane of the desktop isn’t that hard; you can do it without any 3D acceleration at all. Good thing nobody told MS about that…
Pardon? Butters, you could always accomplish that – the problem was, it requires major CPU grunt; so the most logical thing is, why not use the GPU which sits like a spare prick at a wedding 1/2 the time, shunt the stuff off to it, and free up CPU time for more important things.
By and large, you’re not flipping windows around often enough that it uses up any major portion of your CPU time. As long as it happens fast enough to be interactive, what does it matter?
And of course, don’t forget that on laptops its usually a better idea to let the CPU do the work than to bring the GPU out of low-power mode to do it.
another distro
Sigh…
Another leggy blond supermodel…