It is with great pleasure that I announce the release of Foresight 2.5.0 RC! This time, we have updated images for GNOME, Xfce and KDE! Things are shaping up quite nicely and thanks to all the feedback we’ve received from our users, we should be releasing our GA images pretty soon! Well known for being a desktop operating system featuring an intuitive user interface and a showcase of the latest desktop software, this new release brings you the latest GNOME 2.

It was around the end of 2006. Having spent most of my life living in the New Jersey - New York axis and close to my family, I bought a one-way ticket to RDU, packed my bag (yeah, one bag) and came down to North Carolina looking for a new job. Leaving my wife (who was expecting our second child) and young daughter while I went “job spelunking” wasn’t easy for me, but I was determined to quit the rat race once and for all!

Who said that lightening doesn’t strike twice on the same spot? I’m proud to announce the release of Foresight Linux 2.5.0 ALPHA 2 GNOME Edition! Once again, this alpha release is from our QA branch, and is intended mostly to receive feedback on brand new installs from end-users, specially in relation to the overall behavior of X.org on first boot! Obviously, if you’re already running Foresight Linux 2.5.0 ALPHA1, simply update your system from the command line: *sudo conary updateall*

This year I decided to do something I’ve wanted to do for a very long time: get my own private Linux server! A place where I could have total control (i.e. root access) and be able to install or run anything I wanted! Better yet, I wanted a conary managed system that could leverage all the packaging that I have already done for Foresight Linux and be dead simple to maintain!

It is with my Community Manager hat and as a Linux enthusiast that I bring you this post about the Foresight Linux distribution, literally born and brewed where I work and filled to the brim with the technology developed at rPath. However, this is not yet another article about yet another Linux distribution with arguments about how great it is compared to other popular ones out there. No siree Bob! In fact, if you are happy with the platform or distribution that you are running, then kudos to you!

It’s been a while since I last wrote anything here, mainly because I have been working very hard on a very cool project for work that I can now finally talk about it. rPath, the place where I have been working for the last 4+ years has just announced the release of rBuilder 5.8, bringing “model-driven, version-controlled system automation deeper into the enterprise with active inventory management and support for Windows”.

A newer version of the Transifex Appliance has been released with all the latest, juicy bits! In fact, this release is the mother of all releases with so many new features and goodies that it would take me a while to jot them down here! A few impressive nuggets are: Brand New Translation Storage Engine QT (TS) translation file format support Source language file tracking over HTTP Translation file metadata auto-updating Clone language Non-English Source Languages Lotte: Multiple Source Languages, Suggestions, Keyboard Shortcuts, Translation Memory Application Programmable Interface Can you believe that Transifex has reached the 1.