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Foresight Linux!!

12 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/foresight-linux.37459/

JGuru
JGuru Original post #1
Sep 28, 2006 at 12:20 PM
Foresight Linux 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. Some of the more innovative things are included, like beagle, f-spot, avahi (zeroconf), and the latest hal. All of this plus some nice, clean default themes and artwork.

Where does the name Foresight come from? Glad you asked! Many things about Foresight are innovative, not just some of the applications that are included. The biggest of which is Conary, which is a new way of looking at package management. Also, a work in progress, Oversite for web based systems management.

Screenshots

Login Screen

*img211.imageshack.us/img211/1818/foresightlinuxloginkw8.th.png

Desktop

*img211.imageshack.us/img211/2706/foresightlinuxdesktophq0.th.png

F-Spot : Photo management Tool

*img211.imageshack.us/img211/831/foresightlinuxfspotdw7.th.png

Banshee: Music Player

*img141.imageshack.us/img141/8664/foresightlinuxbansheejs6.th.png

Download it from here
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mehulved #2
Sep 28, 2006 at 6:51 PM
Now can someone give me a hard disk to try these distros out.
JGuru
JGuru #3
Sep 28, 2006 at 8:04 PM
@Mehul, I agree. You need another harddisk!!
Sykora
Sykora #4
Sep 28, 2006 at 8:08 PM
Likewise. My hard disk will start weeping if I install any more distros.
gary4gar
gary4gar #5
Sep 28, 2006 at 8:11 PM
well i am sick of formatting & repartioning again & again!
is there any method by which i can try new distro's without formatting our can have a low level format but not with mbr. and also how about the settings??
but this distro looks good:)
JGuru
JGuru #6
Sep 28, 2006 at 8:14 PM
@Sykora, I agree with you. @Gary, this distro has very eye-candy icons, see the
Screenshots. Gary edit your post!! It's 'sick' not 'stick'!!!
gary4gar
gary4gar #7
Sep 28, 2006 at 8:30 PM
JGuru said:
@Sykora, I agree with you. @Gary, this distro has very eye-candy icons, see the
Screenshots. Gary edit your post!! It's 'sick' not 'stick'!!!
Click to expand...
lol a typo:lol:
QwertyManiac
QwertyManiac #8
Sep 28, 2006 at 8:38 PM
I need 600 GB now, wanna install all distros you tell me about :p
JGuru
JGuru #9
Sep 28, 2006 at 8:42 PM
There is one 750 GB SATA Seagate HD available. @Qwerty you can buy that.
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mehulved #10
Sep 28, 2006 at 8:50 PM
@gary try VMWare or I guess Qemu will also do. WMware surely works. No need to reformat but only downside is you need atleast 512MB of RAM for it.
@qwerty can I borrow one hard disk from you? Even 80 GB will do :).
mediator
mediator #11
Sep 28, 2006 at 9:32 PM
Absolutely @gary...try VMWARE! Install, experience,erase without affecting ur whole system!
eddie
eddie #12
Sep 29, 2006 at 1:06 AM
Sorry to be such an a$$ but what's so great about the looks of this distro? As far as I can see about icons...they are unmodified Tango icons. Anyone can get them on their KDE or GNOME desktop. Why switch your distro only for icons?? :?