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Frugalware Newsletter Issue 22

The newsletter's aim is to keep you up to date with what's happened recently in the world of Frugalware.
Features of this issue include:
  • New Frugalware mirrors
  • MANY Security fixes
  • Frugalware's developers are people too! - Boobaa
  • Focus On Package(s) - Openbox
You can read it here. We hope you like it!

Posted by phayz - Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:08:56 +1000

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 20

The newsletter's aim is to keep you up to date with what's happened recently in the world of Frugalware.
Features of this issue include:
  • You can call me *MR* Bouleetbil!
  • Frugalware - A new slogan?
  • Frugalware's developers are people too!
You can read it here. We hope you like it!

Posted by phayz - Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:10:18 +1000

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 19

The newsletter's aim is to keep you up to date with what's happened recently in the world of Frugalware.
Features of this issue include:
  • We're famous! Almost :)
  • Solaria, here we come!
  • Bouleetbil's been busy
  • Tip - Pacman - what did I just install?
You can read it here. We hope you like it!

Posted by phayz - Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:22:43 +1000

Sayshell: End of life

With the release of Kalgan, the support for Sayshell is discontinued. It is highly recommended to upgrade to our new stable release, as there will be no more security and bug fixes for Sayshell.

We have released FSA296 to FSA393 for Sayshell. That means 98 security problems were issued in half a year.
If you update to Kalgan, it will also fix the following vulnerabilities:

Posted by vmiklos - Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:46:09 +0100

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 18

The newsletter's aim is to keep you up to date with what's happened recently in the world of Frugalware.
Features of this issue include:
  • Party time! Kalgan is released.
  • (Another) memory donation - I'm sure about this one :)
  • Money, money, money!
  • Tip - Troubleshooting the launch of GUI applications
  • (Lots of) security announcements
You can read it here. We hope you like it!

Posted by phayz - Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:42:43 +1000

Frugalware 0.8 (Kalgan) for i686 released

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.8, our eighth stable release.
No new features have been added since 0.8rc2, but more than 300 changes have been made to fix minor bugs. If you didn't follow the changes during the pre/rc releases, here are the most important changes since 0.7:
  • Up to date base system: Linux kernel 2.6.24.3, Glibc 2.7 and GCC 4.2.3
  • Up to date desktop packages: KDE 3.5.9, GNOME 2.20, XFCE 4.4.2, OpenOffice.org 2.4rc2 (ooo-build 2.4.0) and Firefox 2.0.0.12
  • Setup: WPA support, new supported language: Czech.
  • New graphical tool: FUN (update notifier).
  • 4068 changes, including 251 new packages, 1729 updated packages and 416 closed tasks.
Please refer to the Frugalware Kalgan ChangeLog for more information.
Download for i686:
livecd, netinstall, cd1, cd2, cd3, cd4, cd5, cd6, cd7, cd8, cd9, cd10, cd11, cd12, cd13, cd14, dvd1, dvd2, tftp, usb, chroot tarball
NOTE: Click here to read more about what media you need for the installation.
SHA1SUMs:
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5de9f070fd8e940853e58063112bb9576322a3e2  frugalware-0.8-i686-cd2.iso
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9e09729d9a4c93c09cece38e2679163c11c57a45  frugalware-0.8-i686-dvd2.iso
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If you are upgrading to Kalgan from our previous stable release (Sayshell), please read the upgrade part of our documentation.
As a special present for this release, you can try out Kalgan in qemu or virtualbox without installing it!

Posted by VMiklos - Mon, 11 Mar 2008 07:16:05 +0100

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 17

The newsletter's aim is to keep you up to date with what's happened recently in the world of Frugalware.
Features of this issue include:
  • Kalgan is nearly here!
  • Memory donation - if I recall correctly :)
  • Frugalware's developers are people too!
  • Tip - Free some space on your hard drive
You can read it here. We hope you like it!

Posted by phayz - Sat, 1 Mar 2008 13:42:43 +0100

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 16

The newsletter's aim is to keep you up to date with what's happened recently in the world of Frugalware.
Features of this issue include:
  • Kalgan - "be still my beating heart"
  • Tip - Redirect your terminal's output
  • Geany - Want a simple but powerful GUI text editor? Your wish is granted!
You can read it here. We hope you like it!

Posted by phayz - Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:30:13 +0100

Frugalware 0.8rc2 (Kalgan) released

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.8rc2, the second (and last) release candidate of the upcoming 0.8 stable release.
A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.8rc1:
  • Bugfixes:
    • Installer optimizations: a general install should be now about 30% faster.
    • Improved documentation: added details about our mailing lists.
    • Minor bugfixes to help the upgrade from 0.7.
  • Package updates:
    • Linux 2.6.24 + security fixes
    • Perl 5.10.0
    • GCC 4.2.3
    • More than 150 other package updates
  • New packages:
    • iwlwifi-4965 and iwlwifi-3945 firmware packages
    • several new drupal modules
    • alpine, a replacement for pine
    • More than 25 other new packages
Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.
Download for i686:
NOTE: Click here to read more about what media you need for the installation.
livecd, netinstall, usb, tftp, cd1, cd2, cd3, cd4, cd5, cd6, cd7, cd8, cd9, cd10, cd11, cd12, cd13, cd14, dvd1 and dvd2
SHA1SUMS:
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82f207cd1ae69ce7603c486ad7cfe9a774b3ba0d  frugalware-0.8rc2-i686-cd2.iso
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Posted by VMiklos - Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:23:04 +0100

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 15

The newsletter's aim is to keep you up to date with what's happened recently in the world of Frugalware.
Features of this issue include:
  • Kalgan - we're getting closer :)
  • You want security fixes? We've got 'em!
  • Tip - X video problem on boot? - Don't panic! (yet)
  • Stellarium - gazing at the stars from your PC
You can read it here. We hope you like it!

Posted by VMiklos - Sat, 2 Feb 2008 16:30:13 +0100

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