This is in contrast to the system of major changes with each version number employed by many other distributions.

[4] Though originally planned to last one month, the contest was extended to two near the end of the first so that a greater number of packages could be completed.

The process of testing all of the completed packages is currently underway[update], and no official announcements have been made as to the winner.

While originally a GNOME-based distribution, from version 2.5.0 Xfce and KDE desktops have been introduced.

Foresight was the recipient of the Ovatio Award for 2008 Distro of the Year by Ars Technica.