Foresight Linux on General Ramblings

Packaging Adventure

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:29:02 +0000

I am about to embark on the epic journey which is Bongo packaging on the OpenSUSE Build Service.

Now that I have succumbed to this task I wanted to establish a few things.

In the Build service there are many many distributions available for build. Most of the distributions are very old.

This leaves me with a choice as to were to focus my efforts, as most of you know I have been creating the Bongo images on the rPath rbuild system so my knowledge of RPM and Deb packaging is quite limited.

The Bongo Images will no longer be built on the rPath environment

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:02:38 +0000

For quite some time now we have been using the rPath rBuilder system to create images for the project. I have also used it for a few other projects.

Things have been going quite well until someone at rPath decided that they needed to reinvent their web interface.

Now I don't mind change and innovation as long as the changes are well thought through and well tested.

I have experienced some major issues with the new UI and it has overwritten my group recipe on more than one occasion.

Bongo Images and the 0.5 release

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:19:44 +0000

Bongo Images and the 0.5 release

I have been working on the images for the 0.5 release of Bongo and I have now completed them.

They can be found here http://www.rpath.org/rbuilder/project/bongo/latestRelease

There is a change however in how we will be implementing the images from now on.

I have decided that to make it easier on you guys and also to limit the number of hours I have to work on them I will create a version 1.0 of the images which I will not change for the foreseeable future.

Bongo 0.4 Development Images

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:08:43 +0000

Bongo 0.4 Development Images.

As promised I have published the Bongo 0.4 development images. To the rPath site.

This release will be quite a big step as we are upgrading the images to the rPath Linux 2 version.

These are the development branch of the 0.4 bongo source I have included Spamassassin and clamav in this build so these option should now work in bongo as well.

Could you please test them and let me know if there are any issues. So we can fix them.

Work on the Bongo 0.4 appliances

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:03:55 +0000

For some time now I have been asked why I have not released the Bongo 0.4.0 packages to the Bongo rPath repo.

The reason I have given is that the webUI bits for Bongo have been broken in Bongo after some major work was done on the store area of the project. The other agents we have e.g. SMTP, IMAP, POP, ANTISPAM and ANTIVIRUS are all still performing very well and I use the code on a server at home running about 4 domains.

Monsoon 0.20 Packaged

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:35:57 +0000

Monsoon 0.20 packaged.

I have eventually packaged the new version of monsoon for Foresight Linux. My apologies to Alan for taking so long. Life has a habit of taking over sometimes.

Well I have added the new meta tags that zodman's new packagekit needs so it should have a short description about it.

Please test this version for me as I would love for it to become Foresight Linux's default torrent client.

Foresight Linux Product Definitions

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:35:43 +0000

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 test my changes and clarify with everyone that they are what is needed.

Vmware Server 2

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:01:38 +0000

I have been running the release version of VMware Server 2 and I must say I am impressed. the only problems I had were with existing VM's and upgrading the tools on them. And also VM's that have open-vm-tools installed.

After updating the tools the systems all have been functioning just fine over the last few weeks and the host system has been under less load with more vm's installed.

Looking to virtualise at home

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:10:33 +0000

Ever since vmware made ESXi a free download I have wanted to install and run it at home so I can P to V my systems at home. And save money on electricity. And before you ask I have looked at the Xen and Virtualbox and Kvm solutions but have found them not quite ready fro my prime time.

I had been running vmware server in the past with reasonable success.

Came off my bike today

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:06:50 +0000

Well I knew it would happen and it eventually did.

I was going to work this morning and I had to swerve for a black porsche and my bike dropped.

I landed on my right hand side and slid down the road. I have a few bruises and bumps and will be seeing the doctor tomorrow morning. The bike is in the shop at the moment I will find out what the damage is later.

Mypaint added

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:16:07 +0000

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 tablets
unlimited canvas (you never have to resize)
undo
fast
no layers (work in progress)
using pygtk with C extensions

If you want to look deeper, MyPaint is built around a highly configurable brush engine. This allows you to experiment with your own brushes and with not-quite-natural painting.

Monsoon updated

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:36:58 +0000

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

LibVirt updated

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:35:17 +0000

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

New video config tool for Foresight Linux

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:34:55 +0000

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 any comments on the above.

virt-manager 0.5.4 for Foresight Linux

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:25:38 +0000

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

Monsoon on Foresight Linux

Wed, 28 May 2008 11:35:15 +0000

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

New Laptop

Tue, 20 May 2008 13:01:44 +0000

I have eventually been able to get a 64bit laptop.

Which means I will be able to package for Foresight Linux, rPath and the Bongo Project again.

I feel I have been neglecting all my projects somewhat, hopefully when it arrives I will be able to package some great apps.

Vmware Workstation on Foresight 2

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:24:34 +0000

Well I have been able to get vmware running on Foresight 2 it was a bit of a mission as since Vmware have opensourced their vmware tools the foresight developers have built the tools into the kernel by default. The problem is that when you try to install vmware workstation or vmware player they would complain about the modules already installed and fail.

After manually deleting these module files I was able to install and run vmware on the workstation.

So I migrated my Desktop

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:39:42 +0000

So I migrated my desktop to Foresight Linux v 2

It has been a bit of a bumpy ride mainly due to me being a newbie and the fact that FL:2 is still very new to market.

I will see how things go and keep you updated.