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Foresight Linux was a Linux distribution comprising free and proprietary software with the goal of showcasing the latest in Linux desktop technologies. Foresight is developed by the Foresight community and is based on RPath, it also follows a rolling release cycle, instead of a time-based release schedule. The project announced it will be shutting down at the end of May 2015.〔(Gmane - Foresight Linux Project announces its retirement )〕 == History == Foresight was created by Ken VanDine as a Linux distribution to showcase the most current releases of GNOME while working on the GNOME Marketing team.〔 Since then it has undergone change through generally minor revisions (via rolling release). This is in contrast to the system of major changes with each version number employed by many other distributions. However, there have been occasional major changes, most notably the transition from Foresight 1.x to Foresight 2. Along the way several original deficiencies have been cured as well, among them the lack of 64 bit support, which was introduced in Foresight 2, and the lack of a graphical package manager, which was filled by PackageKit. After the release of Foresight 2, the developers held a packaging contest within the community in order to boost the number of applications available for the new release, either by porting them from Foresight 1, or packaging them afresh. The contest was sponsored by Shuttle Inc., Foresight's OEM partner, in the form of computers (Shuttle's KPC) and peripherals for the winners.〔 Though originally planned to last one month, the contest was extended to two near the end of the first so that a greater number of packages could be completed. The process of testing all of the completed packages , and no official announcements have been made as to the winner. While originally a GNOME-based distribution, from version 2.5.0 Xfce and KDE desktops have been introduced. Foresight was the recipient of the Ovatio Award for 2008 ''Distro of the Year'' by Ars Technica.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Foresight Linux」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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