Foresight Linux

Perfect Foresight Linux I will show you how to get the latest stuff in your Foresight Linux. As for now, we can call it a perfect Foresight Linux. We will erase these applications: Evolution Firefox (will be installed again) OpenOffice Gedit ... [More] Gcalctool Transmission Totem Gnome-do (+ do-plugins) We will install these applications: Firefox claws-mail LibreOffice […] [Less]

I’m currently fixing the menu and added Getting started. Hopefully it will become easier to navigate for newcomers and easier to find help when it’s needed. As always, got some complaints or suggestions, feel free to leave a comment about it.

adblock midori It’s time to learn how to add and activate Advertisement Blocker in midori browser. Open up Preferences from the menu Go to Extensions tab and choose Advertisement Blocker Click on configure icon on the right side   Activate EasyPrivacy and Easylist. Also possible to go those sites and add even more blocklists. But these […]

someone told me once that users thought it was hard to install and use bumblebee for Nvidia optimus cards in Foresight. So we listened and took care of it. Now you only need to run two commands in terminal and reboot, and you are done. No need to edit files or similar. Read all about […]

When summer arrives, many games sites starts to sell out cheap games. We have found several games that works perfectly on Linux. All games comes from  Green Man Gaming and needs steam. Left 4 Dead Bundle This pack contains: Left 4 Dead Left 4 Dead 2 £22.99 £5.74    Half Life Complete   This pack contains: […]

Took some time from my vacation and released FauxFactory 0.3.0 to make it Python 3 compatible and to add a new generate_utf8 method (plus some nice tweaks and code clean up). As always, the package is available on Pypi and can be installed via pip ... [More] install fauxfactory. If you have any constructive feedback, suggestions, or file a bug report or feature request, please use the Github page. [Less]

Background It was around 2005 when I started doing translations for Free and Open-Source Software. Back then I was warmly welcomed to the Ubuntu family and quickly learned all there was to know about using their Rosetta online tool to translate ... [More] and/or review existing translations for the Brazilian Portuguese language. I spent so much time doing it, even during working hours, that eventually I sort of “made a name for myself” and made my way up to the upper layers of the Ubuntu Community echelon. Then I “graduated” and started doing translations for the upstream projects, such as GNOME, Xfce, LXDE, and Openbox. I took on more responsabilities, learned to use Git and make commits for myself as well as for other contributors, and strived to unify all Brazilian Portuguese translations across as many different projects as possible. Many discussions were had, (literally) hundreds of hours were spent going though also hundreds of thoundands of translations for hundreds of different applications, none of it bringing me any monetary of financial advantage, but all done for the simple pleasure of knowing that I was helping make FOSS applications “speak” Brazilian Portuguese. I certainly learned a lot though the experience of working on these many projects… some times I made mistakes, other times I “fought” alone to make sure that standards and procedures were complied with. All in all, looking back I only have one regret: not being nominated to become the leader for the Brazilian GNOME translation team. Having handled 50% of the translations for one of the GNOME releases (the other 50% was handled by a good friend, Vladimir Melo while the leader did nothing to help) and spent much time making sure that the release would go out the door 100% translated, I really thought I’d be nominated to become the next leader. Not that I felt that I needed a ‘title’ to show off to other people, but in a way I wanted to feel that my peers acknowledged my hard work and commitment to the project. Seeing other people, even people with no previous experience, being nominated by the current leader to replace him was a slap in the face. It really hurt me… but I made sure to be supportive and continue to work just as hard. I guess you could say that I lived and breathed translations, my passion not knowing any limits or knowing when to stop… But stop I eventually did, several years ago, when I realized how hard it was to land a job that would allow me to support my family (back then I had 2 small kids) and continue to do the thing I cared the most. I confess that I even went through a series of job interviews for the translation role that Jono Bacon, Canonical’s former community manager, was trying to hire, but in the end things didn’t work out the way I wanted. I also flirted with another similar role at MeeGo but since they wanted me to move to the West Coast I decided not to pursue it (I also had fallen in love with my then current job). Pylyglot As a way to keep myself somewhat still involved with the translation communities and at the same time learn a bit more about the Django framework, I then created Pylyglot, “a web based glossary compedium for Free and Open Source Software translators heavily inspired on the Open-tran.eu web site… with the objective to ‘provide a concise, yet comprehensive compilation of a body of knowledge’ for translators derived from existing Free and Open Source Software translations.” I have been running this service on my own and paying for the cost of domain registration and database costs out of my own pocket for a while now, and I now find myself facing the dilema of renewing the domain registration and keep Pylyglot alive for another year… or retire it and end once and for all my relationship with FOSS translations. Having spent the last couple of months thinking about it, I have now arrived at the conclusion that it is time to let this chapter of my life rest. Though the US$140/year that I won’t be spending won’t make me any richer, I don’t foresee myself either maintaining or spending any time improving the project. So this July 21st, 2014 Pylyglot will close its doors and cease to exist in its current form. To those who knew about Pylyglot and used it and, hopefuly, found it to be useful, my sincere thanks for using it. To those who supported my idea and the project itself, whether by submitting code patches, building the web site or just giving me moral support, thank you! [Less]

We have written down how you can install Foresight 3 and get cinnamon or openbox as desktop. (more desktop env will come) Read all about it here: http://wiki.foresightlinux.se/index.php?title=Installation About the issue: exceptions.ImportError: ... [More] libpopt.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory That error is probably gone, but has the information there, just in […] [Less]

Woke up this morning and, as usual, sat down to read the Books section of The New York Times while drinking my coffee. This has become sort of a ‘tradition’ for me and because of it I have been able to learn about many interesting books, some of ... [More] which I would not have found out on my own. I also ‘blame’ this activity to turning my nightstand into a mini-library on its own. Currently I have the following books waiting for me: The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories The New Yorker Stories The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol Doctor Zhivago Redshirts Dubliners The House of Seven Gables Lolita Anyhow, while drinking my coffee this morning I realized just how much I enjoy reading and (what I like to call) catching up with all the books I either read when I was younger but took for granted or finally getting to those books that have been so patiently waiting for me to get to them. And now, whenever I’m not working or with my kids, you can bet your bottom dollar that you’ll find me somewhere outside (when the mosquitos are not buzzing about the yard) or cozily nestled with a book (or two) somewhere quiet around the house. But to the point of this story, today I realized that, if I could go back in time (which reminds me, I should probably add “The Time Machine” to my list) to the days when I was looking to buy a house, I would have done two things differently: wire the entire house so that every room would have a couple of ethernet ports; chosen a house with a large-ish room and add wall-to-wall bookcases, like you see in those movies where a well-off person takes their guests into their private libraries for tea and biscuits; I realize that I can’t change the past, and I also realize that perhaps it is a good thing that I took my book reading for granted during my high school and university years… I don’t think I would have enjoyed reading “Dandelion Wine” or “Mrs. Dalloway” as much back then as I when I finally did. I guess reading books is very much like the process of making good wines… with age and experience, the reader, not the book, develops the maturity and ability to properly savor a good story. [Less]

Foresight Linux will be based on Centos 7. We will have a stable core and maintained for years.We will have whole centos main repository available and whole epel 7. We will have own repository for additional packages and packages that we need to tweak, for fitting into foresight and make it unique. There is already […]