Eggdog wrote: Greetings from Foresight Linux, Xfce edition!
Random observations: My default Grub2 (which happens to be the property of Linux Mint Debian Edition) picked up an "unknown Linux" on sda8, identified it correctly in the menu, but wouldn't boot into it. I had to edit 40_config and add a line for Foresight, using the "chainloader +1" trick (somehow I had gotten the idea that Grub2 didn't recognize the chainloader command, but it works just fine). This isn't Foresight's problem. Overall, it seems slow, and I'm getting kind of a lot of busy cursors, some of which are misleading. (Later: this is a lie. See below.) The file manager (which/really/took a long time to load, though I don't know if Xfce is doing some configurating behind the scenes) now recognizes Samba shares!! It works great!! It really does!!! I'm/so stoked!!!!!/Now, if Gnome 3 is not to my liking, I can move over to Xfce painlessly. (And if Thunar can remember to open maximized, I'll be even happier.) (Which it did. I have to say that in Xfce 4.6, Thunar was a significant PITA. So far, I have the idea that it has learned some manners.) It/looks/like I should be hearing the Caesars, whoever they are, on a Live365 station, but I'm not getting any sound and I can't find a volume control anywhere. I did open up Exaile and am happily listening to WRTI, a jazz station from Philadelphia. So it may be a Firefox issue. Eventually, I'll see if Conary has Opera. Can't really tell you why, but I just love Xfce's terminal emulator. Foresight's customization of Xfce reminds me, visually, of Gnome. This is not a complaint. It's sort of like Gnome except that they are avoiding many of your favorite Gnome apps: Claws Mail is here, for instance, instead of Evolution, and Exaile instead of Rhythmbox. I'm using Claws on another installation and like it quite a lot (though Evolution's sort-'n-store systems are the most intuitive to me amongst Linux mail clients). I'll have to see about Exaile. Rhythmbox can be kind of stodgy, but it lets me save radio stations for repeated listening, something that Exaile doesn't seem very intuitive about. I take it back about being slow. Gnumeric opened in about a second. (We get Gnumeric and AbiWord instead of Open/LibreOffice.) So did Thunar. So Foresight is fast, it was just taking its time getting warmed up. This is on my "play" computer, a Shuttle XPC-45, which I've had for a couple of years, at least, and which came preloaded with....Foresight Linux! Foresight was on version 1.1 or something then, I think, and I had some problems with it. I ended up installing a variety of other distros. Later on, I realized that Foresight's Gnome was newer than that of Ubuntu or whatever I had on the "work" computer at the time, and it was behaving in unexpected ways that weren't necessarily Foresight's fault. So having it back is like a homecoming. I'll have to brush up on my Conary commands. I wanted to try Foresight when I learned that a long-awaited new version was arriving, and I wanted to try Xfce 4.8. So tonight I did both, and quite honestly I'm thrilled. Wanted to share that with you guys. // Tomas Forsman -- Foresight Linux Developerhttp://www.foresightlinux.org Foresight Linux - SEhttp://www.foresightlinux.se Tomas Forsman - Bloghttp://www.foresightlinux.se/blog _______________________________________________ Foresight-devel mailing list Foresight-devel@lists.rpath.org http://lists.rpath.org/mailman/listinfo/foresight-devel
