The second issue of the Foresight Linux newsletter is out! Keep up to date with what’s happening with Foresight Linux, what’s in development, and security fixes. This month’s featured package is Brasero, and Tips & Tricks include searching for packages and adding a build environment.
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Enjoy!
Linux seems to always get a knock when it comes to gaming. I know personally I believed the FUD, before making the switch to Linux full time 2 years ago and learning otherwise. What Linux doesn’t have in quantity as a gaming platform, it does make up in quality.
A lot of the open source and freeware get the publicity, but id software and Epic, among other developers, makers of Quake and Unreal Tournament respectively, continue to put out native Linux binaries of their software.
With the upcoming Enemy Territory: Quake Wars release, I installed Quake IV, Doom 3 and the original Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory on my desktop today. Since I did a clean install of Foresight a couple months ago, I wanted to make sure I work out any kinks before ET:QW’s release.
Everything worked like a champ – I downloaded the Linux installation files from id software’s bittorrent server, installed those in /home/silwenae/games (I’m lazy, didn’t feel like chmod’ing /usr/games), copied the pak files over, and ran Doom 3 and Quake IV. Mapped my keys, cranked the video settings, and I was online in minutes fragging away.
The only small glitch I ran into with Quake IV, and this hasn’t happened in my two or three previous installs, was that it started in Spanish. A quick Google search turned up the fix: Go into your home folder, and in the .quake4 directory (which is hidden, hit ctrl-h in Nautilus to view hidden files and directories), and then the q4base directory, and edit the Quake4Config.cfg file with your favorite text editor, and change the value of sys-lang to english, and you’re all set.
Everything worked great out of the box, I didn’t have the funky Alsa / OSS sound issue I had in the past with Ubuntu, even that worked flawlessly.
Who said you couldn’t game on Linux? Come get some!
I’m pleased to announce the 1.0 release of the Getting Started with
Foresight Linux User Guide:
[http://wiki.foresightlinux.com/confluence/display/docs/Getting+Started+with+Foresight+Linux
]1
The User Guide provides a high level overview of Foresight Linux, including:
The User Guide is intended for users new to Linux or new to Foresight,
though advanced users may learn something as well.
The User Guide currently lives on the Foresight Wiki, so if you have
any updates or see any errors, feel free to update it, I would love to
have some more eyes looking at it. I hope to export it to HTML and /
or Docbook in the next month or so.
The Twin Cities Linux User Groups are back! After almost 2 years, we’re set to have our first meeting (except for last summer’s installfest). Two volunteers and myself have been meeting to brainstorm topics, meeting flow, and trying to find a location.
If you live in Minnesota, and you’re new to Linux and want to learn more, or an old hand at Linux and want to meet some like-minded people, come join us, everyone is welcome! There’s a Google calendar link in there as well, so you can indicate if you want to come.
Here’s the announcement I sent to the mailing list this morning:
Mark your calendars! The Twin Cities Linux User Group is pleased to
announce two upcoming meetings.
Please feel free to forward this announcement. After a brief hiatus, we’re excited to bring back regular meetings of the TCLUG. The TCLUG website will be updated soon with the event information as well.
Date: Wed., May 2nd
Time: 6:30 – 8:00
University of Minnesota Minneapolis campus, EE/CSci Building , Room: 3-210
200 Union St SE, Minneapolis 55455
(Google Map: http://tinyurl.com/2omnv6)
Topics:
Welcome & Introduction
Linux on a USB Flash Drive (Eric Peterson)
Getting involved (TCLUG information, future meetings & meeting
topics, volunteer to speak at a TCLUG meeting)
Food and drink are not allowed in the U of M classrooms. For those who would like to get to know each other a little better, we will be heading out for food and drinks afterward. (Location TBD) We invite everyone to come along!
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June Meeting (Tentative, more information at 5/2 meeting):
Date: Wed., June 7th
Time: 6:30 – 8:00
University of Minnesota Minneapolis campus, EE/CSci Building , Room: 3-210
200 Union St SE, Minneapolis 55455
(Google Map: http://tinyurl.com/2omnv6)
Topics
Feedback from 5/2 meeting
Lightning talks: We would like to provide short time slots (10 – 30 minutes) for any member to demonstrate a project or discuss a topic with the group.. More information will be available at the May 2nd meeting.
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Upcoming events are also viewable on the TCLUG Google Calendar:
http://tinyurl.com/2c5d8w (Requires a Google Account).
Foresight Linux 1.2 has been released, day and date with GNOME 2.18.1!
Foresight Linux 1.2 builds on the success of last month’s 1.1 release, and features a new default GDM theme, updated hardware support, and a fix for importing photos.
Foresight Linux is an innovative, stable distribution with default applications such as Banshee for music, F-Spot for photo management, Epiphany web browser, and Brasero for burning music and data discs. Foresight also comes with Compiz enabled (depending on your video card), and propietary codecs installed including MP3 and DVDs.
Foresight has a beautiful green theme and features Conary, a next generation packaging tool, to manage your software and software updates.
Visit the download page to download Live Media, including LiveCDs, VMWare images and more to test out Foresight, or download the installation discs on one DVD or two CDs.
View the release notes or the downloads page. Give Foresight a try – in the 2 months I’ve been using it, I can speak very highly enough of the packaging, the distribution and the community.
A big shout out to the developers for another timely, and stable, release.