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July 23rd, 2008:
Foresight joins the Software Freedom Conservancy
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2008 July 24 :: The Foresight Linux Project joins the Software Freedom Conservancy. Read the press release.

2008 July 23 :: The Foresight Linux Project is excited to announce the availability of the Foresight GNOME Lite Edition, which fits on single CD for installation. After installing the Lite edition, you can easily upgrade to the Foresight GNOME Edition. For more information or to download, visit the Foresight GNOME Lite page This is part of the 2.0.4 release, including new installation images for the Foresight GNOME Edition in both x86 and x86_64 flavors.

2008 July 8 :: Foresight 2.0.3.1 released. This is a minor release to fix an installation bug. Read the release notes.

2008 July 2 :: Foresight 2.0.3 released. Read the release notes.

2008 April 22 :: Foresight XFCE Edition Alpha 1 released. Read the release notes.

2008 April 19 & 20th :: Foresight users and developers attended the Foresight 20/20 conference. See the wiki for all the conference sessions.

2008 March 12 :: Foresight Linux 2.0 has been released. New in version 2.0: a new tar-based installer that should install in less than 10 minutes, including formatting a 200 GB hard drive; PackageKit to help users update their system and add and remove software; Syslinux, a new bootloader to replace GRUB; GNOME-Do to quickly search for many items present in a GNOME desktop environment (applications, Evolution contacts, Firefox bookmarks, files, artists and albums in Rhythmbox, Pidgin buddies, etc.) and perform commonly used actions on those items. Users should also find it much easier to use binary video card drivers from NVIDIA and ATI than in Foresight 1.x. Transmission is also included as the default Bittorrent application.

2008 March 6 :: Foresight GNOME Edition Beta 1 released. Read the release notes.

2008 March 4 :: Foresight Linux 2.0 will be pre-installed on all Shuttle® KPC systems sold in the United States. The KPC is designed for web surfing, emailing, instant messaging, and light office applications, and it features a changeable front image on its case. Shuttle is best known for its benchmark line of toaster-sized small-form-factor computers that fit just about anywhere. :: Shuttle's press release :: KPC technical specifications.

2008 February 29 :: Foresight Newsletter Issue 10 released featuring Foresight updates, SCALE recap, GNOME Do overview and more.

2008 February 22 :: Foresight GNOME Edition Alpha 4 released featuring the new Package Kit tool for keeping the system up-to-date and several updates to the desktop software.

2008 January 15 :: Foresight GNOME Edition Alpha 3 released.

2007 December 28 :: Foresight Newsletter, Issue 9 released.

2007 December 28 :: Foresight 1.4.2 is the latest stable version of Foresight Linux featuring GNOME 2.20.2.