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Top 10 Commands

Jumping on the latest meme bandwagon, my top 10 commands:

history|awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head<br /> 261 cd<br /> 122 cvc<br /> 120 ls<br /> 112 sudo<br /> 67 ./fixmissingfiles<br /> 62 yelp<br /> 51 hg<br /> 48 rmake<br /> 42 conary<br /> 27 geany<br />

Amusing

This may only amuse me, but the number of searches on my blog for “ubuntu banshee 0.98.2” has skyrocketed in the last day or two since Banshee’s recent release.

Just another reason to use Foresight! Conary’s ability to write a recipe to create a package is easier than almost every distribution out there. This gives us the ability not only to add packages quickly, but to maintain Foresight as a rolling distribution. After testing packages, we can keep our distribution up to date without having to have two major releases a year like most distributions do today. Think 0.98.2 will be in Ubuntu? Think again! (Not that I’m trying to start a flame war with Ubuntu, we each have our pros and cons).

Even Aaron Bockover, Banshee’s lead developer commented on his blog:

@trettle: First off, thanks! Ubuntu packages should be on their way, but itÂ’s really up to those in the Ubuntu community to contribute the packaging. The Foresight guys always have packages available minutes after an upstream release, for instance. It would be nice to see someone do the same for Ubuntu.

Try Foresight today!

Teaser: Another big announcement

Yes, I’m going to tease you.

Expect another big Foresight announcement in the next 48 hours. And no, it’s not an OEM deal.

But it’s still big.

Stay tuned, and free up your calendar for Sunday night!

Banshee 0.98.2

Banshee 0.98.2 is out! Read the release notes, and check out Planet Banshee for the developer’s comments on the new functionality.

What’s new? VIDEO. Yup, you read that right. Your favorite audio manager is now a full fledged media manager.

I’ve been using the Banshee Preview for a few weeks, and this latest release for almost a week, and it works great. Import your music or video, and watch it right in Banshee. And if you’re listening to music, click the Now Playing button for some great visualizations.

A big shout out to Will Farrington for writing the recipe, which I committed last night to the Foresight repositories. Search for banshee-1 in PackageKit, or install via sudo conary update banshee-1=@fl:2-qa Enjoy!

(And thanks to the Banshee devs for giving me credit for helping write the release notes, but I really didn’t deserve it. I started ’em with a copy / paste of 0.98.1, and some other minor edits, but didn’t get a chance to really finish it). Gotta love the Foresight mention right in the release notes though!