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:

• Feature Article - Give a somatic look to your Frugalware
• Happy birthday to Gimmix
• Frugalware joins the art world
• Tips and tricks - mutt timezone filter

You can read it here. We hope you like it!

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

We have released FSA394 to FSA525 for Kalgan. That means 131 security problems were issued in half a year (we shipped 98 security fixes for Sayshell, the stable release before Kalgan).
If you update to Solaria, it will also fix the following vulnerabilities:

• #2210 - bitchx
• #3037 - gnumeric
• #3174 - vim

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:

• Solaria has arrived
• Wallpaper competition - we have a winner!
• Recent changes to the newsletter
• Getting To Know You - Frugalware's i18n
• Tips and tricks - How to determine the date of the installation of a Frugalware system?
• Focus On Package(s) - xmllint

You can read it here. We hope you like it!

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.9, our ninth stable release.
No new features have been added since 0.9rc2, but about 40 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 0.8:

• Up to date base system: Linux kernel 2.6.26, Glibc 2.8 and GCC 4.3.1
• Updated desktop packages: GNOME 2.22, OpenOffice.org 2.4.1 and Firefox 3.0.1
• Setup: improved support for machines with multiple network cards, the usb installer is now easier to start, fixed/documented installation in virtualbox/vmware.
• Improved graphical tools: FUN (update notifier) now supports news notifications.
• 6400 changes, including 568 new packages, 2279 updated packages and 926 closed tasks.

Please refer to the Frugalware Solaria ChangeLog for more information.
Download for i686:
livecd, netinstall, cd1, cd2, cd3, cd4, cd5, cd6, cd7, cd8, cd9, cd10, cd11, cd12, cd13, cd14, cd15, cd16, cd17, dvd1, dvd2, dvd3, tftp, usb, chroot tarball
Download for x86_64:
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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If you are upgrading to Solaria from our previous stable release (Kalgan), please read the upgrade part of our documentation.

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.9rc2, the second release candidate of the upcoming 0.9 stable release.
A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.9rc1:

• Improvements:
  • The default vi editor is now elvis instead of nvi (as elvis has less dependencies).
  • Added crosscompile support to distcc.
  • More than 350 small changes.
• Package updates:
  • Linux kernel 2.6.26 + fixes
  • GNOME 2.22.3
  • Git 1.6.0
  • More than 100 other package updates
• New packages:
  • Official synaptics touchpad driver from XOrg.
  • Utilities for the HFS+ filesystem.
  • 8 new drupal modules
  • More than 20 other new packages

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.
We now have a feature schedule for new functionalities we plan to implement before we release Solaria as stable.
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, cd15, cd16, cd17, dvd1, dvd2 and dvd3
SHA1SUMS:

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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:

• Frugalware 0.9 (Solaria) Release Candidate 1 is released
• Wallpaper competition is now closed
• Tips & tricks - "Where the heck is that file?"
• Focus On Package(s) - LinkChecker
• NEW - Getting To Know You

You can read it here. We hope you like it!

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.9rc1, the first release candidate of the upcoming 0.9 stable release.
A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.9pre2:

• Improvements:
  • Removed empty documentation files (README, NEWS, etc.) from /usr/share/doc.
  • Fixed installation in virtualbox.
  • Replaced firefox-adblock with firefox-adblock_plus.
  • The ROX environment is now available on x86_64 as well.
  • More than 800 small changes.
• Package updates:
  • GNU C Library 2.8
  • Firefox 3.0.1
  • OpenOffice.org 2.4.1
  • More than 400 other package updates
• New packages:
  • dblatex (Produces DVI, PostScript, PDF documents from DocBook sources.)
  • wxruby (wxWidgets bindings for ruby.)
  • 10 new games
  • More than 70 other new packages

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.
We now have a feature schedule for new functionalities we plan to implement before we release Solaria as stable.
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, cd15, dvd1, dvd2 and dvd3
SHA1SUMS:

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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:

• Frugalware wallpaper announcement
• Elentir has begun work on a GUI installer
• New donation
• Tips and tricks - Envy Code R monospace font
• Focus On Package(s) - rxvt-unicode (again) :)

You can read it here. We hope you like it!

For the first time in Frugalware's history, we're running a wallpaper competition. The aim of this competition is to get an original wallpaper for Frugalware's 0.9 - "Solaria" - release. The winning entry will be set as the default wallpaper. It will also be the basis for various derivative works - e.g. KDE/GDM/SLiM themes, splash screens.
The successful entrant may be offered the opportunity to produce derivative works from their winning wallpaper. If they decline this offer, a Frugalware developer will produce these works based on the source files provided by the entrant (refer below for this condition).
Judgement criteria

• For the duration of the judging period, each Frugalware developer can cast a maximum of 1 vote for each entry. The entry with the most votes at the end of the judging period will be declared the winning entry. If any entries have the same number of votes for them, vmiklos will choose the winning entry from these entries;
• While the wallpaper's content is open to the imagination of the entrant, it must not (a) be offensive to the general public, (b) have negative connotations - e.g. attempt to denegrate another Linux distribution, company, person etc;
• The winning entry will be announced on the Frugalware forums, also via a news entry on the Frugalware web site. All entries will be considered for inclusion in the official Frugalware library;
• The winning entrant will be notified via email;
• The competition is open to everyone, including Frugalware developers.

Submission requirements

• All entries must comply with the "Frugalware artwork requirements" - refer to the artwork rules;
• Each entrant can submit a maximum of three (3) entries;
• Each entry must be entirely original artwork by the entrant;
• Any entry which is found to be in conflict with these submission requirements or the Frugalware artwork rules will be declared invalid and excluded from the competition.

Timetable and deadline

• Entries may be submitted to the Frugalware developers mailing list - frugalware-devel@frugalware.org - from 27 July 2008 to 9 August 2008.
• Judging will occur after submissions close, with a winning entry being selected by 16 August 2008.

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:

• Frugalware 0.9 pre2 released
• Wine is 1(.0) Happy birthday! :)
• Tips and tricks - Which packages are installed?

You can read it here. We hope you like it!