Playing with Foresight Linux
I’ve started using Foresight Linux in my newly-resurrected Toshiba laptop with very good results. The very clean and unadulterated GNOME desktop, along with the new Conary software management tool were enough reasons to try it out and I could say its something I would use for a long time.
I’ve yet to dive deep into Conary, but it seems to be at par with APT in terms of simplicity and management, but this is only one part of rPath’s strategy in delivering software appliances via rPath Linux, in which Foresight is one of those projects that sprang out of rBuilder. For users more familiar with managing Debian packages, the Foresight Linux wiki has a good page entry that shows equivalent APT and dpkg commands in Conary.
Since one of the primary goals of Foresight is to showcase the latest and greatest that is Gnome, its no wonder that Foresight has become the choice for the Gnome Live CD. It currently runs Gnome 2.18 and there are already plans on releasing a new image to have Gnome 2.18.1 along with development snapshots for Gnome 2.19.
Installation of Foresight is a snap.
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