Other than the fact that this one purports to keep up with Gnome software releases, there’s no particular reason I picked foresight over any other distro. So far though, I haven’t been disappointed. The resulting “out of the box” product is far better than Fedora’s.

The installed Evolution/ldap packages can actually connect to Exchange 2003, and it required none of the tedious steps I’ve had to go through in the past.  I probably spent 2 minutes or less compared to hours. It took far longer to sync my Inbox than it did to configure Evolution.

I haven’t located either a Gnome panel, or menu for the command line yet. Then again, I didn’t even have time to look for the actual binary,  /usr/libexec/mini_commander_applet…

One minor issue I’ve run into — anaconda couldn’t determine the display type on my Dell D505 laptop and apparently defaulted to SVGA mode at 800×600. Unfortunately,  the graphical installation  screens require a higher resolution. I did a text-based install instead, which worked fine. Once X was installed, it managed to prove the video card just fine. The Gnome desktop environment looks just as you’d expect.

Also, the master speaker volume is on mute for some reason.

The system already reports 12 new updates, so I’ll be interested to see how Conary works.