Foresight and Conary Updates
- First off, for those participating of the Google Highly Open Participation Contest, get your GNOME Developer Kit now! Download the VMWare image or the DVD and start hacking today! There will be continuous builds (the plan is to have them daily) so that you’ll always have the freshest GNOME code to play with. For the translators out there, I’ve recommended the inclusion of poEdit, intltool, translate-toolkit and gettext, all latest versions available. Feel free to let us know of any other application that could make your life easier.
- To keep your GNOME Developer Kit up to date, take advantage of the awesome PackageKit or for those interested in the amazing Conary packaging and management system, run sudo conary updateall
- Speaking of Conary, those who have ventured into the packaging world will be happy with the release of conary 1.2.10 and the new cvc explain command.
- Have you tested the new Foresight Linux (alpha 2) yet? My installation took 4 minutes, including formating a 200GB HD. Been running it for a couple of weeks now and it’s pretty stable. Check out PackageKit updating it this evening.
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December 15th, 2007 at 7:31 am
Hi,
dont know what CPU etc you have but on a 2 GHz simple Intel whole process took me 20 minutes (from inserting DVD to login screen). Others have reported 1.45 minutes. I think one should make clear what time span we are measuring and also what setup one has. My guess is that an installation cant be much quicker than 20 minutes really if people think before they click (but with custom setup). Installation cant be the process of copying the data only. For me installation is the point where I make the first move for installation till the point where I have a complete system. This sad sure there always is goiung to be some sort of cleanup and customisation that is not part of the installation process.