Foresight Linux Newsletter – Issue 02 2012

Editor’s Note

Need to start thanking all users for the kind words for previous newsletter and all good feedback for wiki page.
Users are asking what kind of environment we are using in Foresight, We are still using GNOME 2, openbox and xfce.

We will add some focus on games for upcoming weeks in this wiki and in gameway repo. We’ll keep gameway page updated for newly added games.

Thanks to masashi, we managed to get in Lxde into Foresight. Needed a reminder about getting it in to Foresight.

And thank you all that are following us on Google+. We currently have 192 followers, more than we hoped for in this stage.

Development

Soon python 2.7 will be available in Foresight Linux.

Lxde has been added into Foresight Linux. That page will be updated soon with more information and how the groups are setup, so you can easily skip applications you don’t want to have installed.

We are working to get some new iso for you to download for gnome, xfce and lxde. But they are not done yet.

We are currently testing Xfce 4.10pre1, hopefully it’s stable enough to get into Foresight. Final release of 4.10 comes April 28th, 2012.

Added/Updated Packages

Picked out a few random packages that been updated during February/March month.

Blastbits 0.4
Chromium 18.0.1025.148
Conary 2.3.12
Ffmpeg 0.10.0
Gnome-pie 0.5.1
Kernel 3.2.13
Legit
Lives 1.6.1
Tomboy 1.9.8
Transmission 2.5.0
Vlc 2.0.1
Wine 1.5.1
+ alot of codecs has been updated
+ alot more, this versions are available in @fl:2-devel label.

Added/Updated Games

Opengoo
Minetest
0ad
Flightgear
Xonotic
Megaglest
Frogatto

Latest ISO

Foresight GNOME

Foresight Linux GNOME Edition 2.5.2 x86:
foresight-2.5.2+2011.12.12-x86-dvd1.iso
Size: 2.71 GB
SHA1: 76ac5bcca7b9d7c7f1a2605747097bc581f154e4

Foresight Linux GNOME Edition 2.5.2 x86_64:
foresight-2.5.2+2011.12.12-x86_64-dvd1.iso
Size: 2.23 GB
SHA1: ae5606dac3622d1c58d9b0f033b31d6facc8a195

Foresight XFCE

Foresight Linux Xfce Edition 2.5.2 x86:
foresight-2.5.2+2011.12.12-x86-dvd1.iso
Size: 1.242 GB
SHA1: df018a5dcfbe31d188964cce055a6bd706b5f490

Foresight Linux Xfce Edition 2.5.2 x86_64:
foresight-2.5.2+2011.12.12-x86_64-dvd1.iso
Size: 1.46 GB
SHA1: ef568076bc5693f7b33ecc0379ab5ac381c54bce

For Developers GNOME (Devel Label)

Foresight Linux GNOME Edition 2.5.2 x86:
foresight-2.5.2+2011.12.12-x86-dvd1.iso
Size: 2.53 GB
SHA1: 2ba6f4ee1a19b84329788feabc634c556105c874

Foresight Linux GNOME Edition 2.5.2 x86_64:
foresight-2.5.2+2011.12.12-x86_64-dvd1.iso
Size: 2.23 GB
SHA1: ae5606dac3622d1c58d9b0f033b31d6facc8a195

For Developers XFCE (Devel Label)

Foresight Linux XFCE Edition 2.5.2 x86:
foresight-2.5.2+2011.12.12-x86-dvd1.iso
Size: 1.69 GB
SHA1: 4c17f61eb8e5ce09e9a916d0a6a2a1c3c8ce876e

Foresight Linux XFCE Edition 2.5.2 x86_64:
foresight-2.5.2+2011.12.12-x86_64-dvd1.iso
Size: 1.92 GB
SHA1: 7641af2c7fced78649a9fab853ac1a34866d4848

Council Meetings

Last meeting: Concil meeting agenda 20-04-2011

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