Foresight Linux an (very) interesting newcomer

[Longboard]

OK so:

For interest:
Still cruising various distros:
looking for the right balance and saw Foresight V2.0
Only #26 at distrowatch
http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=04793
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=foresight

http://www.foresightlinux.com/

This distro caught my eye a bit related to this:
http://us.shuttle.com/news.aspx
And; seems to have an interesting package management system: Conary
I know there are other "embedded" linux os's but this was a bit intriguing to me

Home page : lol SPARSE to say the least: still under devt !?
No Forum?
Hhmmm..
There is this which is good:
https://wiki.foresightlinux.org/dashboard.action
and this
https://wiki.foresightlinux.org/disp...+Documentation

OK: dl and install into VMWare Workstation6:
amazing fast install ~14 minutes, heh: gave the VM 512 mb RAm and install routine complained !!

Very clean install and reboot; options for configuring partitions and SYSLINUX boot loader.
Everything working
Nice desktop
No problem with resolution.
Nice list of basic apps
Nice selection of apps: Totem instead of MPlayer and no FF plugin: So test this conary: very simple interface: Find>Install = looks like nothing happening: app icon shows something? : then get message = "Installed"
On the menu: all good, Dl the codecs with apt get (!!) went well: all even better.

I'm still really raw at the *nix but this was impressive from (very) simple end user POV.

Lots of menu lists for configuring...

Interesting vids:
http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/fosdem-...-foresight.ogg
seems to be addressing "Foresight Linux" as an 'interface' for apps rather than an 'OS' ;played with no probs in Foresight MPlayer.

Google for Conary developer:
http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&hl...ry&btnG=Search
http://blogs.conary.com/index.php/mkj

I'll be trying this out for a while: a bit tricky to find info about repos and packages available so far, user input options are a bit unfamiliar ( at least for enduser like me) but are relatively well documented .

There are some very favourable reviews of their earlier releases at distrowatch pages

So far I am liking this
Not as fast as slack distros: less complex
For me, much better than say Ubuntu 'plain'
I dropped it into my ISP's file library and interestingly 15 dl's almost immediately

Hope some others will have a look and comment.
Regards.

and ...http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=04792
PC-BSD 1.5

[lucas1985]

Interesting, thanks

[pogonici]

thanks 4 info!