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I picked up a copy of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.
Now I’m just playing the waiting game for the Linux binary so I can play it.
I think the actual game is more fun.
But I wanted to make a statement by picking up the game during release week – it’s important to me to support commercial game companies who make Linux compatible games.
Over the next month or two, you may hear a lot of news about upcoming releases of various Linux distributions.
But what if you could do things differently? What if you could have a Linux distribution that wasn’t tied to a specific date twice a year to update your packages and your distribution? What if you wanted access to the latest Banshee for example that will be out later this year and not wait until next spring? Why mess around with backports or unstable respositories just to gain access to the latest release of a package that features a bug fix you need?
Try a Linux distribution that features a rolling release. Try Foresight Linux. Yes, we have a “formal” release when GNOME releases every 6 months, but when a package has an update, it’s probably updated before you even notice, and just one conary updateall away from being included in your desktop. The latest packages will give you access to the latest features, and better yet, the latest bug fixes of any given package. With Foresight Linux 2.0 on the horizon, we will be adding a more formal QA process, so don’t let the “but we need months of testing” stop you from updating. Point releases come out every couple months, but mostly to update the downloadable media including install CDs / DVD and live media such as Live CDs or VMWare images. The magic of conary will keep all of your installed packages up to date.
Additionally, if something doesn’t work, Conary is an innovative package manager that features a rollback feature – from the command line type sudo conary rollback 1 and you’ll be right back to where you were before you installed that last package.
There can be better ways of doing things. And a rolling release is a better way.
Are you a Foresight Linux user, and want to give back and help out, but not sure how? Take it from someone who had the same concerns and doubts about how you can help out – I’ve been using Linux for years, and knew I wanted to give back, and after I switched to Foresight this past spring, I found a core group of developers who were open and friendly, and welcomed me with any help I wanted to offer.
With Foresight Linux 2.0 in development, now is a great time to get involved. We are having a Developer meeting in IRC next Wednesday, October 3rd at 1:00 p.m. EST.
We are looking for help in all kinds of areas, and talking about forming some teams to tackle some of the outstanding projects – including documentation writing, packaging, bug triaging, development and a website redesign.
Come and listen, and maybe something will be discussed that you think you’d be good at lending a hand with. More information on the foresight-developer mailing list and on the new Developer Meeting wiki page.
See you there!
GNOME 2.20 is out and that means a formal release of Foresight Linux, 1.4, is out to go with it!
Why do I say “formal release of Foresight Linux”? Because of Conary, Foresight does rolling releases – whenever a package has a major update, you’ll get it right away, so you always have the latest bug fixes of your favorite software.
Here are the GNOME 2.20 Release Notes, Foresight 1.4 release announcement and release notes, and because it is International Talk Like a Pirate Day, the release notes done by our resident pirates.
And of course, the best place to get the latest GNOME is Foresight Linux – download today.
Congrats to the team for another great release, and here’s to 2.0 in the near future!