NEWS: Foresight Linux 2.0 Released
written by Martin Spa
at Monday, March 17, 2008
Foresight Linux 2.0 has been released. New in version 2.0: a new tar-based installer that should install in less than 10 minutes, including formatting a 200 GB hard drive; PackageKit to help users update their system and add and remove software; Syslinux, a new bootloader to replace GRUB; GNOME-Do to quickly search for many items present in a GNOME desktop environment (applications, Evolution contacts, Firefox bookmarks, files, artists and albums in Rhythmbox, Pidgin buddies, etc.) and perform commonly used actions on those items. Users should also find it much easier to use binary video card drivers from NVIDIA and ATI than in Foresight 1.x. Transmission is also included as the default Bittorrent application.
It comes in two choices, x86, and 64bit one. The DVDs are install only, there is no Live Session available. When the media is booted, the following screen appears:
Yeah, the boot loader is not GRUB, nor LILO. It's SysLinux, and as the creators state, it's supposed to replace GRUB.
The installer is Anaconda (made by Red Hat, and used in Fedora also), the installation is really about 10 mins, as stated in the release announcement. Thanks to the new tar-based installer. Now, after the installation, the greenish theme will welcome you.
The theme is little different than in Foresight 1.4, the previous one was green-to-yellow somehow. A large selection of wallpapers is offered also.
Now, when it comes to applications, PackageKit is here to manage adding and removing packages, as well as updating the whole system. Also, GNOME 2.22 was included with all of its packages. When it comes to GNOME 2.22 here is their release announcement:
Addition of Cheese, a tool for taking photos from webcams and Remote Desktop Viewer; basic window compositing support in Metacity; introduction of GVFS; improved playback support for DVDs and Youtube, MythTV support in Totem; internationalised clock applet; Google Calendar support and message tagging in Evolution; improvements in Evince, Tomboy, Sound Juicer and Calculator.
Cheese is a nice funny application, and it can take and save photos or clips from your webcam.
Only one package was missing, and that was GIMP. But, the developer/s of Foresight said that GIMP was removed due to they wanted to shrink the whole media from a DVD to a single CD. Besides GIMP, everything else was here, all the Office needed packages, all the games that are included in GNOME project, even Transmission was included, as the default torrent client. Firefox was also here, as the default web browser. And if you want to search for an item in the GNOME desktop enviroment (applications, Evolution contacts, Firefox bookmarks, files, artists and albums in Rhythmbox, Pidgin buddies... ) GNOME-Do in there for you. Brasero is the CD/DVD burning solution, and Banshee was also included, which is a nice audio media player. Popular media codecs were lacking, and proprietary video drivers, which is understandable why.
There was one thing that i really liked, and that is the Foresight Linux User Guide. Just click System, and click on the icon which launches the guide.
For everything lacking, here is explained how to get to it. Meaning popular media codecs, video card drivers, getting compiz, Conary and PackageKit are explained, and so on... A great introduction for newbies, which will solve a lot of their problems :)
Only one weird thing happened to me. When i started the OS, and the first time it booted, there was no sound. The icon showed that it was muted. I launched the sound mixer, and all the channels were OK. Then i figured, PulseAudio. I started the PulseAudio volume control, and there, the mute button was ticked. So I unticked it, and Banshee was playing with no fuss.
Nevertheless PulseAudio is well integrated and the sound is great, with no glitches. One great thing about it is that you can control the volume of separate applications, or even mute a separate application/stream.
Overall, the installation went great, the user experience was great, PackageKit is easy to use, the User Guide is a great plus, all GNOMEish apps (except GIMP) are included... So, if there is someone who wants a different and fresh GNOME based desktop, Foresight is one of the best choices.
March 17, 2008 at 12:44 PM
Thanks for a nice review. But 10 min????????? You must be using a high end PC. I tried with the CDs. What a nightmare. After 2 hours it was still on %33 of the installation process. I couldn't stand it anymore and had to terminate the installation. By the way, I tried it with 3 different PC. Same result.
March 17, 2008 at 2:52 PM
It installed in about 15 mins under Parallels on my Mac Pro. The new installer works well.
This is a very polished distro. It's replaced Gutsy as my main linux install. Gnome keeps getting better and 2.22.0 is no exception.
Plus, I'm liking the dual head options in Display settings. Very handy!
March 17, 2008 at 3:47 PM
It takes approx 10 mins with DVD installer. CD takes alot longer as you already noticed.
I have no idea why it is like that
March 17, 2008 at 5:01 PM
The DVD isos use the new installer, the CD isos still use the old installer, which is much slower. Hopefully we can have the new installer available on CD isos.
March 17, 2008 at 7:09 PM
On my AMD Opteron 165 @ 2.7, 2gb of ram ddr500. Installer took 5mins
March 17, 2008 at 7:30 PM
Can Agree....Install was blazing fast (i used DVD)!
March 19, 2008 at 1:12 AM
I had a very different opinion of Foresight when I toyed with it. my review of Foresight 2.0 was one of frustration. Sure it installed quickly but how could such a physically large release have so little out-of-the-box support?
Also I find the addition of a manual a sign of admitting defeat; when you can't make it intuitive just include a manual. Ubuntu doens't need one, nor does PCLinuxOS... I was really disappointed with Foresight.
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March 19, 2008 at 11:21 AM
@ Seopher:
I read your review, It's a nice and critic one. The lack of proprietary software/codecs/drivers is really not solved as in other distros, say Mint, PCLOS/Mandriva, or others.. But, for those people who got used to do everythings by their own (as I am) that's not a problem at all, only half hour- max one hour work.
@ others:
Yes, the installer used is not the same in the DVD and in the CDs, so try avoidiing CDs if you don't have the time to wait for the installation. We all hope that this issue will be fixed soon.
June 22, 2008 at 2:28 AM
Foresight Linux 2.0 DVD install in 11.53 minutes, on Duron 1.2 GHz, w/ 732MB DR226
RAM, on my VIA chipped ECS MS-6382 mainboard w/ PCI nVidia 32 video card.
That's blazing FAST! Full first time boot took another 5 minutes. Hard drive is an IDE connected Seagate 40GB.
I like the green graphics!
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December 8, 2008 at 2:31 AM
Install took 15 mins, no problems. This Distro has staying power I've read it is the Flag ship for Gnome? Many applications for the new Linux user - FSL will fit nicely there. I would not give up ,my Gentoo for it but it is staying on the second PC as I want to learn GNOME.
Great review good job
April 12, 2009 at 2:22 AM
Great review, the install took about 10 minutes on an Athlon XP 2800+ with 512 MB of DDR 1 Memory.
(I used the DVD installer)
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