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2007

Simply Beautiful: GNOME 2.18 and Foresight 1.1 Released

GNOME 2.18 has been released! Congratulations to all the developers and contributors in getting this out the door, on time as usual.

GNOME 2.18 contains a number of bug fixes, updates to your favorite programs such as Tomboy and Evince, and even two new games!

If you want to check out GNOME 2.18, all the Live Media has been updated to the latest release as well, learn more here on the GNOME wiki if you’d like to download a VMWare image or LiveCD.

With the new GNOME 2.18 release, Foresight has also released an update to 1.1. We’ll have the website updated and announcement out tomorrow, but if you want a sneak peak, get it here (2 CDs, DVD) and install the first Linux distribution to have GNOME 2.18 available, and other goodies too like Banshee 0.12.0 or F-Spot.

Hello Planet Foresight!

First of all, thank you for inviting me to join the Planet crowd – I’m very flattered and honored to be part of the community.

Who am I? I’m a married father of 3 living just outside of Minneapolis, MN USA, and when the kids aren’t keeping me busy, trying to learn how to contribute and help out with various projects, including Banshee, GNOME and Foresight Linux. I’ve been using Linux for just over 8 years, a number of various distributions over that time, but was primarily a Red Hat Linux user, and then an Ubuntu user for the last couple of years before making the switch to Foresight about a month ago. This month marks the two year anniversary of using Linux as my only operating system on all my computers.

I am also an active believer and supporter of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Some of the current areas I’m targeting to help out with are documentation, including a Getting Started guide for users new to Foresight Linux; documenting the LiveCD release for both Foresight and GNOME; and helping out with marketing once that’s gets going. And who can forget submitting and triaging bugs!

This feed is my Linux RSS feed – if you want more ramblings on anything from copyright to sports to books and movies, feel free to visit my blog, which I probably need to update more often. You can also find me on IRC on Gimpnet and Freenode as “silwenae”, Mugshot, Flickr and del.icio.us. My handle / alias “silwenae” was a randomly generated name from an online roleplaying game that has stuck with me these last 7 or 8 years.

Thank you to the Foresight community for being so welcoming, and I look forward to helping out.

GNOME 2.18 – T minus 1 Day

We are now one day away from the GNOME 2.18 release! If you didn’t download and test GNOME 2.18 yet (as I mentioned in yesterday’s post), Phoronix has posted some GNOME 2.18 screenshots from the GNOME / Foresight 2.18 LiveCD for your viewing pleasure.

Take a look at some screenshots, and get ready for the release.

In related GNOME news, the newly revamped GNOME website won’t be ready for 2.18 – but give us a month and we’ll have it ready for GNOME 2.18.1.

T minus 2 Days

GNOME 2.18 is 2 days from release – have you taken it for a test drive yet? Thanks to Ken Vandine and Foresight Linux, there is now more than just one way to take GNOME 2.18 for a spin. VMWare images, QEMU / Parallels, name your virtualization way and there’s probably an image, in addition to a LiveCD.

Visit the downloads page and pick your way to test out GNOME. Links will be updated once 2.18 goes final. Take some LiveCDs to your next LUG meeting or installfest, and show off GNOME 2.18 powered by Foresight.

Simply Beautiful.