May 03 2009
Foswiki 1.0.5 released and Windows and debian installers updated.
see http://foswiki.org/downloads and http://fosiki.com/Foswiki_debian/ for more information.
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Mar 20 2009
Foswiki 1.0.4 released – OSX, Windows and Debian installers ready too
Foswiki 1.0.4 has been released with more than 100 bug fixes and some small enhancements. Upgrading is highly recommended. If you did not upgrade from TWiki yet, now is a good time as Foswiki 1.0.4 fixes more around 300 bugs relative to TWiki 4.2.4.
Grab it now from : http://foswiki.org/Download/WebHome – the straight and upgrade archives, OSX installer and my Windows Installers are here.
My debian package repository now spans Foswiki 1.0.4 and 168 Foswiki extensions – its never been easier to install 
see http://fosiki.com/Foswiki_debian
Over the 4 months of our project’s existence, 33 developers have been involved in making ~3000 commits – next up, the future !
Jan 14 2009
debian repository for Foswiki
I’ve set up a debian repository that you can help test the release package before it gets uploaded into debian proper.
To try it out, add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://fosiki.com/Foswiki_debian/ stable main contrib
deb-src http://fosiki.com/Foswiki_debian/ stable main contrib
and then run
apt-get update
apt-get install apache2 foswiki
This repository contains about 108 foswiki-extensions – auto updated nightly direct from foswiki.org. The packages have as many dependencies as I was able to coerce my build scripts to work out – but there is more work needed.
Sorry, you will get a gpg error on these packages, they are updated nightly direct from foswiki.org – and signing the repository requires personal intervention (as far as I can see).
Jan 10 2009
Foswiki delivers results.
In just 10 weeks, the Foswiki project has re-built the project infrastructure, fixed an additional 100 bugs over and beyond those we fixed in the TWiki source repository before the fork, moved to a new web application architecture (FSA) and undertaken a detailed security audit, fixing at their roots a large number of potential exploits.
Additionally, we already have the following easy installers:
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Windows Installer – I’ve built an installer using Apache 2.2 and Strawberry Perl, making it possible to install Perl dependencies.
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OSX Leopard installer – Matthias Wientapper has built an pkg
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Debian and Ubuntu linux – I’ve ported my TWiki package builder to Foswiki, and now have a live updated (nightly) Debian repository containing Foswiki v1.0.0 and 105 of the 109 Extensions uploaded to http://foswiki.org/Extensions
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Virtual machine image – Eugen Mayer has built a virtual machine, with detailed instructions for use with Virtual Box and VMWare.
So given the over 1800 commits in 10 weeks, a release, and much much more, It seems to me that Foswiki is a success..
Oct 24 2008
TWiki 4.2.3 JeOS Virtual Machine
TWiki 4.2 JeOS VM
mirror 1 460MB (USA) TWiki 4.2.3, (does not include VMware):
Easy installation on Windows, Linux and OSX!
Trivial upgrades of TWiki and TWiki Plugins
Summary: This package enables you to quickly and easily install a pre-configured TWiki 4.2 ’software appliance’ on Windows, by using the free VMware Player or VMware Server – like another computer running within your computer. This generally performs better than a normal WindowsInstallCookbook approach and is easier to install than IndigoPerlCookbook (takes just 5 minutes, a bit like installing a hard disk that has TWiki and Linux pre-installed). Although running TWiki on Linux on top of Windows may seem complicated, it’s actually much simpler than installing TWikiOnWindows – no TWiki or Linux knowledge is needed to get a working TWiki installation!
This uses TWiki VM 4.2.3 released on 12 September 2008. It is installed using SvenDowideit’s fosiki TWiki debian package repository to make upgrades, and installation of TWiki Plugins (with external dependencies) easy.
Aug 25 2008
firefox 3.x on debian amd64
I’ve been running a firefox 3.0 pre-release build for ages now, and finally thought I’d upgrade – (it turns out) mozilla do not provide 64 bit binaries. The i686 build that you can download from getfirefox.org does not work on my debian amd64 system – but not everything is lost.
As I’m a developer, I’m reasonably happy to play with nightly builds – and so – http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/ has what I need – today its firefox-3.1a2pre.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2.
Unziped into my non-debian firefox dir, and runs seemingly fine, except that the firefox addins won’t run, as they are scared of firefox versions that they have not been tested on
That too can be solved – edit the application.ini file, and replace the Version=3.1a2pre with Version=3.0.1 or whatever the release is that your addons are willing to work on.
so far, only VMWare’s addon won’t run – perhaps I need to set the Version lower, as it worked on Minefield 3.0pre.
http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=iceweasel&searchon=names&suite=testing§ion=all tells me that 3.0.1 is in amd64 debian testing since July 2008
VMWare’s addon to give console access won’t run in the 3.0.1 debian version either – talk about disappointing. The 3.1 nightly build seems to feel faster too, so I suspect I’ll be running that most of the time, and will look to migrate away from VMWare over time.
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