I have been working on the product definitions for Foresight Linux repositories which will help the different versions have a common set of details. I will try to blog as much as possible about this so that everyone knows where I am at. I am currently setting up a test definition on my playground repo so that I can …

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On Friday and Saturday I was lucky enough to have gone to Linux Live in Olympia London UK and work the stand with Alex. As Alex has blogged the show was very quiet and it seems the .org village was an afterthought to the organisers. As Alex said in his blog http://www.alexhudson.com I think that there was not enough …

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This evening Stu Gott dropped a bombshell on me, not literally but it had a similar impact. The people at rPath have run a report on our little project and I was shocked to say the least when I found out that the Bongo appliance has been downloaded 0ver 7000 times. I seem to remember thinking this is a nice small …

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Well it has been a while since the Bongo team has released a version and there is good reason for this. Over the last few months since the release of 0.3.0 the developers have been rewriting a large proportion of the store code. Alex realised that the old one was not as efficient as it could be when there were large …

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Mypaint has now been added to FL:2-devel. from their website MyPaint is a fast and easy painting application. It lets you focus on the art instead of the program. It comes with a large brush collection including charcoal and ink to emulate natural painting. Other features are: support for pressure sensitive graphic …

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Monsoon 0.15 has been committed to FL:2-devel. This is a bugfix version.

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LIbvirt has been updated to 4.3 in the fl:2-devel.

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I am investigating video config (x config) for Foresight linux as the current config tool is a bit hit and miss. I have been investigation who does what and how but it seems quite difficult to get any information about this stuff from the different distributions and also what works and what does not. I would appreciate …

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After some head scratching and help from doniphon we now have a working virt-manager, virt-viewer, virtinst and libvirtd on Foresight Linux 2-qa so hopefully soon it will be released into the main repo sometime soon. Please create issues on https://issues.foresightlinux.org for any problems

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I have packaged Monsoon for foresight 2, it has been passed though qa and is now in the main repo. I am glad that it has worked so easily

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