| Foresight Linux 0.9 claimed first distro with GNOME 2.12 |
Sep. 09, 2005
Foresight Desktop Linux 0.9 has become the first distro to incorporate the GNOME 2.12 window manager, which was released only last Wednesday. The latest Foresight release features a "refined look and improvements in about every area, including hundreds of bug fixes and feature improvements over v0.8.1," according to developer Ken VanDine. "This is a distribution which showcases some of the latest and greatest from GNOME. Some of the things that may not be mature enough for some of the other distros."
VanDine told DesktopLinux.com that Foresight Desktop Linux 0.9 uses the v2.6.12.5 kernel. VanDine listed these as the major highlights of the 0.9 release:- GNOME 2.12, which includes improved graphics rendering, better authentication, and a new document reader -- among numerous other improvements
- All new and updated versions of the software package, including the Beagle desktop search engine, Cowbell, F-Spot, Gnomebaker, Grisbi, Howl, Xchat-Gnome, and more
- Sudoku puzzle
- Bansee (formerly Sonance) is the new default media player for media file playback, CD playback, and ripping burning, encoding CDs
- Latest kernel with inotify and synaptics patches
- The new Conary package management system
- Less bloat -- one app to do many things rather than many apps to do few things, and no more menus filled with umpteen applications you'll never ever use
- Support for freedesktop standards: Dbus, Hal, Udev, Pmount et al
- About 450 updated app packages included
- About 25 percent more applications available on the Foresight repository, including preview development builds of Anjuta 2, Gaim 2, Glade 3, and Gnucash 2
Screenshots are available here.
Foresight 0.9 can be downloaded here.
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