Quote: "Patriotism can flourish only where racism and nationalism are given no quarter. We should never mistake patriotism for nationalism. A patriot is one who loves his homeland. A nationalist is one who scorns the homelands of others." Johannes Rau

For a while Foresight Linux users had no graphical interface for managing their systems packages and/or updates, mainly because the development for the conary backend fell out of scope and our radar (this is a nicer way to say that we didn’t have someone to maintain it). But thanks to the work of zodman, jesse and others PackageKit is making its way back to our desktop. [caption id=“attachment_1395” align=“aligncenter” width=“296” caption=“Available updates”][/caption]

My employer is currently looking for a Platform Engineer to join our team at our new office in Raleigh, NC! We have a great team working on some really cool and bleeding edge technology here, so if you have significant system administration experience, and have experience creating and maintaining RPMs as well as understanding their dependencies, then you may consider us! Check the full description for this role here and feel free to shoot me your CV.

First off, congratulations to everyone involved in the release of GNOME 3.0! In the past, my contributions were mostly related to translating applications to Brazilian Portuguese, but my role on that front was very minimal this time and consisted of a handful of translations and several commits of the awesome work done by others. Most of my contributions for 3.0 are related to the work I do for the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors, but I won’t bore you to tears!

Desta vez tive o prazer de conversar com a Luciana Fujii Pontelo, uma das brasileiras que participou do GNOME Women Outreach Program! Neste episódio conversamos um pouco sobre o programa, a “responsabilidade” em representar mulheres no mundo do software livre e fonte de inspirações. Dê uma conferida!

Now that you have downloaded and installed the latest Foresight Linux 2.5 release, here are a couple of things you may want to do: Update Your System: Since Foresight has a rolling release schedule, we already have updates for you, including and newer MPlayer with support for Blue-Ray!  Run sudo conary updateall Install Chromium web browser: Try this pretty cool web browser made by Google.

At last, after a long hiatus, I can shout out for the whole world to hear: Foresight Linux 2.5.0 is out and about! This is our first official release in almost 2 years (2.1.1 was released May 15th, 2009!!!) and it is filled to the brim with the very latest stable applications out there! A lot of work, sweat, and tears by a lot of different people went into getting this release out the door, and to all of you out there who stood by us through thick and thin, I thank you and salute you!