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Well, I finally got Foresight installed last night... It is a little disappointing to say the least.
It looks nice, but there's some weeeeeird oversights. Conary is weird to use on the command line, there is no "install", just "update". And the terminology is weird. What the hell is a "trove"? Searching for packages in the Foresight manager thing is problematic, because it doesn't just search the Foresight repositories. You are given the option of installing packages from the rPath and the 64-bit repositories. I have no idea if they would actually install, but if they did it would no doubt fuck some things up.
I was under the impression that multimedia codecs were installed by default, but that doesn't seem to be the case. The mplayer plugins are installed for firefox, but they don't work for me, they just buffer but don't play. I moved them out of the plugins directory, and then discovered that the gstreamer plugins either aren't installed or don't work, and mplayer isn't actually installed.
The biggest gripe though is that the installer lied to me. I swear it said it was installing grub to hd(0,7) (the / and only partition I gave to Foresight), and it just installed it to the MBR instead. It was quite surprising to reboot and see a boot menu with just Foresight. Luckily I didn't install Ubuntu's or Arch's grub to the MBR, so I just had to copy some text to get my old installs working again.
Overall, it has promise, but right now it's just got so many flaws.
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