Congratulations to Ken and the Foresight Linux community for being one of the two winners of Ars Technica’s 2008 Ovatio award for Linux distribution of the year.

Foresight Linux was created by rPath developer Ken VanDine in 2005. It’s an impressive up-and-coming Linux distribution that has lots of potential. It vaulted into the mainstream this year when it was adopted by Shuttle for the KPC and other products. It leverages Conary, an innovative package management system with compelling features like file-based dependency resolution and support for rollbacks.

Foresight is closely aligned with upstream GNOME and also includes the latest and greatest third-party applications. Packages are updated regularly and it often delivers new versions of GNOME before the other major distributions. You can expect to see Foresight gain even more momentum in the coming year.

Way to go, Ken. You and the nascent Foresight Linux community certainly have earned it!