Anyone used Foresight Linux?

[CaptainCabinet]

I'm currently downloading the latest version of Foresight Linux and I was wondering if anyone else who is using it could tell me what it's like?
I understand it has the latest version of GNOME which is getting allot of praise and it looks very nice. It's just taking ages to download because of my slow internet. :(

[JawsThemeSwimming428]

I downloaded it and tried it in Vbox. It is good, not great. It does use much of the latest software so that is a plus if that is what you are looking for. I still think Ubuntu is more stable. I also think Mepis is more stable than Ubuntu, that's why I use it!

[CaptainCabinet]

I'm most interested in it because it has the latest release of GNOME and I tried an older version of Foresight which I couldn't get to work.
What's the speed of it compared to Ubuntu? It has less stuff pre-installed so I'm guessing it will be faster?

[wolfen69]

didn't care for it.

[pelle.k]

Foresight 2.0 is certainly very snappy. That may, or may not, be because of gnome 2.22.
Compared to the Foresight 1.X series it's *very* rough around the edges, but it'll probably stabilize in a few point releases.

[CaptainCabinet]

I tried it last night and it wouldn't install. I ran into way to many problems I'm afraid. :(

[FuturePilot]

I tried it a while ago, and it is pretty nice. It offers the very latest Gnome, but it doesn't have a whole lot in the repos. Gets rather boring after a while. But it is very fast I must say and it has a cool package manager :)

[tgalati4]

Foresight is a great disto to check out a pure gnome environment, without Ubuntu tweaks. The gnome folks are serious about the decisions that go into a desktop environment. It's helpful to see how gnome is supposed to work before it gets the Ubuntu treatment.

I found it's rpath/rbuild package manager to be much slower than apt on my old 500 MHz, PIII, Dell GX1 with 768 MB of RAM. Linux Mint 4 XFCE runs much faster than Foresight on this vintage hardware. Perhaps it would run better on newer hardware.

Installation was a pain: Linux Mint 4 XFCE ~25 minutes, Foresight 90 minutes!

[oomingmak]

I used it a year ago (mainly to nick some theme stuff).

I really liked the install procedure which I thought was way better than Ubuntu (functionally not aesthetically) and it didn't trash my MBR like Ubuntu did. But other than that I couldn't really see any particular benefit of using it.

The conary stuff was quite confusing to me (because I was very new to Linux at the time, and I had only just got to grips with apt) so I didn't end up staying on Foresight for long.

[notwen]

I try to keep up with any major update son this distro. The conary package manager used by Foresight and RPath are very interesting. That said the distro is very fast, but their repos are lacking and the distro as a whole is not very stable. I had lots of apps closing w/o any warning in the 2 weeks I tinkered w/ it. Looks to be a very promising distro in the future though. =]

[tgalati4]

An important distinction is that Foresight is a "rolling update" distribution so that when you download it, there are no previous versions. That may lead to a stability issue with some applications as newer libraries may have conflicts with existing applications.

The technical advantage is that the smart Foresight folks have built an rbuild tool that can create a new distro in about 30 minutes. So, when Gnome rolls out 2.3, Foresight can build a new distro around it quickly. That doesn't mean everything works, but it's packaged quickly and can be deployed equally quickly. You don't have to wait 6 months for the next Ubuntu release to play with the new Gnome environment.

Of course, if your favorite apps break, then it's a moot point. Perhaps they should call it Moot Linux.

I would like to see a feature-by-feature comparison between apt and conary.

[temcat]

Just installed Foresight Linux 2.0 Gnome edition and didn't really like it. For starters, it set the maximum resolution for my CRT with 60Hz refresh rate, but when I try to change the resolution and refresh rate via Gnome applet, X restarts. I have an integrated Intel video card (i915). Things like this should not happen with a desktop distro using open graphics drivers that boasts the new X.org 7.3.

[madjr]

Ubuntu (in terms of support, more easy to use tools and their lack of more soft in their repos) would had been much better for the shuttle kPC

http://www.foresightlinux.org/img/kpc.png

http://www.foresightlinux.org/news.html

but gladly is not another gOS with e17 beta :)

i'll be checking their forums to see how things go with the kPC:
http://forum.foresightlinux.org/index.php