TriedIT: Review: Foresight Linux 1.0 | Linux Today

TriedIT: Review: Foresight Linux 1.0

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 23, 2007

“Installation of Foresight Linux was a snap. Under VMware Fusion
Beta on my MacBook Pro and on my Athlon 64 x2 system with GeForce
7800GT the installation was flawless. The graphical installer
popped up cleanly on both and easily walked me through the
installation process with minimal questions. The only slightly
difficult part of the installer was the partitioner. On my desktop
I have several drives all with multiple different partitions on it
so that complicated matters. The partitioner had a lot of help text
to explain how to use the graphical partition utility. Once I
figured out which of my drives was the one I wanted to install it
to, I went to the first screen of the partition utility, only
selected that drive, and told Foresight to wipe the disk. The
partition utility was very intuitive and the help information on
the left side would be very useful to people who are not familiar
with partitioning their drives…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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