From noreply at frugalware.org Thu Mar 8 08:00:10 2007 From: noreply at frugalware.org (VMiklos) Date: Thu Mar 8 08:00:12 2007 Subject: [Frugalware-announce] Frugalware 0.6rc2 (Terminus) released Message-ID: <20070308070010.36B8E1670010@genesis.frugalware.org> The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to [1] announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.6rc2, the second release candidate of the upcoming 0.6 stable release. A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.6rc1: * Improvements: + Updated the documentation: obsolete parts are removed, new parts are written, it is more than two times longer than it was till now. + Finished the artwork update, it is now homogenous again. + Updated the translations of the installer * Package updates: + GCC 4.1.2 with changes to correct regressions from previous releases + GNOME 2.18.0 RC1 with cool features, important bug fixes, great translations + More than 30 new packages: asciidoc, bzflag, rtl8110, new beryl plugins and much more! Please refer to the Frugalware [2] Testing ChangeLog for more information. Download for i686: NOTE: Don't download CDs 3-11 or the second DVD unless you don't have an internet connection [3] netinstall , [4] usb , [5] tftp , [6] cd1 , [7] cd2 , [8] cd3 , [9] cd4 , [10] cd5 , [11] cd6 , [12] cd7 , [13] cd8 , [14] cd9 , [15] cd10 , [16] cd11 , [17] dvd1 and [18] dvd2 SHA1SUMS: 66c303c9b17043ecce69abf4f8320f4669044bfe frugalware-0.6rc2-i686-cd1.iso ed3c81f600e9c62e714ea183fa457fdf4028e759 frugalware-0.6rc2-i686-cd2.iso 2ac932a6757a9eec4648bb39dbcf56844456f856 frugalware-0.6rc2-i686-cd3.iso 25ce844a8e2ae1754d060b7839373aeedc2d3b61 frugalware-0.6rc2-i686-cd4.iso 71e628b6de75218b8c564314820591960ca95d89 frugalware-0.6rc2-i686-cd5.iso 080e946d74f269a5dcbd20c3ec0f7dfe132ccd2e frugalware-0.6rc2-i686-cd6.iso 0d29ddff61379825401fffd2a862f0e25ddda32b frugalware-0.6rc2-i686-cd7.iso 22c20685309f593a208fe778488c4fe0cf5bd3d1 frugalware-0.6rc2-i686-cd8.iso 4d0a842692f4a9a846612ab3b35806987f84b948 frugalware-0.6rc2-i686-cd9.iso ea0965c3d416b756d02a80aa48fe169285080c18 frugalware-0.6rc2-i686-cd10.iso 5ce856f979e19f50e46ee29eefc9b5448a47b90e frugalware-0.6rc2-i686-cd11.iso 78dde3b0db56db9d03d4238b48289682307c468d frugalware-0.6rc2-i686-dvd1.iso 46595eac01beec13e2d94c8e356af98b188665d6 frugalware-0.6rc2-i686-dvd2.iso 90d7a03bdad19646c4acc6b3a2eb24fa4dd742ed frugalware-0.6rc2-i686-net.iso 3b5b9794ac9ee850634c609bf186d558aac00f69 frugalware-0.6rc2-i686-usb.tar.gz References 1. http://frugalware.org/news/55 2. http://ftp.frugalware.org/pub/frugalware/frugalware-testing/ChangeLog.txt 3. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-testing-iso/frugalware-0.6rc2-i686-net.iso 4. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-testing-iso/frugalware-0.6rc2-i686-usb.tar.gz 5. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-testing-iso/frugalware-0.6rc2-i686-tftp.img.gz 6. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-testing-iso/frugalware-0.6rc2-i686-cd1.iso 7. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-testing-iso/frugalware-0.6rc2-i686-cd2.iso 8. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-testing-iso/frugalware-0.6rc2-i686-cd3.iso 9. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-testing-iso/frugalware-0.6rc2-i686-cd4.iso 10. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-testing-iso/frugalware-0.6rc2-i686-cd5.iso 11. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-testing-iso/frugalware-0.6rc2-i686-cd6.iso 12. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-testing-iso/frugalware-0.6rc2-i686-cd7.iso 13. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-testing-iso/frugalware-0.6rc2-i686-cd8.iso 14. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-testing-iso/frugalware-0.6rc2-i686-cd9.iso 15. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-testing-iso/frugalware-0.6rc2-i686-cd10.iso 16. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-testing-iso/frugalware-0.6rc2-i686-cd11.iso 17. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-testing-iso/frugalware-0.6rc2-i686-dvd1.iso 18. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-testing-iso/frugalware-0.6rc2-i686-dvd2.iso From noreply at frugalware.org Tue Mar 13 08:59:45 2007 From: noreply at frugalware.org (AlexExtreme) Date: Tue Mar 13 08:59:48 2007 Subject: [Frugalware-announce] Frugalware Newsletter Issue 1 Message-ID: <20070313075945.99BB313A4012@genesis.frugalware.org> The Frugalware Newsletter is a new fortnightly (Hopefully... ;-)) newsletter which aims to keep users up to date about what's been going on in Frugalware development. The first issue can be found [1] here . We hope you like it! References 1. http://frugalware.org/newsletter/1 From noreply at frugalware.org Thu Mar 22 03:06:26 2007 From: noreply at frugalware.org (VMiklos) Date: Thu Mar 22 03:06:29 2007 Subject: [Frugalware-announce] Frugalware 0.6 (Terminus) for i686 and x86_64 released Message-ID: <20070322020626.57F581E68055@genesis.frugalware.org> The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to [1] announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.6, our sixth stable release. A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.6rc2: * Linux 2.6.20.3 * We are proud to be one of the first distributions to ship the stable GNOME 2.18 * Fixed a few bugs in XDM If you didn't follow the changes during the pre/rc releases, here are the most important changes since 0.5: * Up to date base system: Glibc 2.5, Binutils 2.17.50.0.6 with DT_GNU_HASH support, DBUS 1.0 and Python 2.5 * Up to date desktop packages: KDE 3.5.6, XFCE 4.4, Beryl 0.2.0, OpenOffice 2.1, Firefox 2.0.0.2 and GNOME 2.18 * All installed-by-default packages using Java are now built using gcj/ecj, the original binary javac is only provided as an alternate compiler. * Setup: speed improvements, support for more custom action, tftp installs and usb sticks are now supported. * Full support for Xgl/Beryl in KDE * Documentation: it is more than two times longer than it was until now. Known Issues: * If you use a JMicron disk controller and you cannot boot 0.6, try booting with any of these options on the GRUB prompt: irqpoll, libata.atapi_enabled=0 and combined_mode=libata * The first time you attempt to use the Main Menu application in GNOME to edit the menus, the GNOME Panel will crash. This will not happen again after that. This will hopefully be fixed sometime and an update will be released. Please refer to the Frugalware [2] Terminus ChangeLog for more information. Download for i686: [3] netinstall , [4] cd1 , [5] cd2 , [6] cd3 , [7] cd4 , [8] cd5 , [9] cd6 , [10] cd7 , [11] cd8 , [12] cd9 , [13] cd10 , [14] cd10 , [15] dvd1 , [16] dvd2 , [17] tftp , [18] usb , [19] chroot tarball Download for x86_64: [20] netinstall , [21] cd1 , [22] cd2 , [23] cd3 , [24] cd4 , [25] cd5 , [26] cd6 , [27] cd7 , [28] cd8 , [29] cd9 , [30] dvd1 , [31] dvd2 , [32] tftp , [33] usb , [34] chroot tarball NOTE: CDs 3+ or the second DVD is needed only if you don't have an internet connection! 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References 1. http://frugalware.org/news/57 2. http://ftp.frugalware.org/pub/frugalware/frugalware-0.6/ChangeLog.txt 3. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-0.6-iso/frugalware-0.6-i686-net.iso 4. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-0.6-iso/frugalware-0.6-i686-cd1.iso 5. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-0.6-iso/frugalware-0.6-i686-cd2.iso 6. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-0.6-iso/frugalware-0.6-i686-cd3.iso 7. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-0.6-iso/frugalware-0.6-i686-cd4.iso 8. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-0.6-iso/frugalware-0.6-i686-cd5.iso 9. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-0.6-iso/frugalware-0.6-i686-cd6.iso 10. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-0.6-iso/frugalware-0.6-i686-cd7.iso 11. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-0.6-iso/frugalware-0.6-i686-cd8.iso 12. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-0.6-iso/frugalware-0.6-i686-cd9.iso 13. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-0.6-iso/frugalware-0.6-i686-cd10.iso 14. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-0.6-iso/frugalware-0.6-i686-cd11.iso 15. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-0.6-iso/frugalware-0.6-i686-dvd1.iso 16. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-0.6-iso/frugalware-0.6-i686-dvd2.iso 17. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-0.6-iso/frugalware-0.6-i686-tftp.img.gz 18. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-0.6-iso/frugalware-0.6-i686-usb.tar.gz 19. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-0.6-iso/fwchroot-0.6-i686.tar.bz2 20. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-0.6-iso/frugalware-0.6-x86_64-net.iso 21. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-0.6-iso/frugalware-0.6-x86_64-cd1.iso 22. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-0.6-iso/frugalware-0.6-x86_64-cd2.iso 23. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-0.6-iso/frugalware-0.6-x86_64-cd3.iso 24. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-0.6-iso/frugalware-0.6-x86_64-cd4.iso 25. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-0.6-iso/frugalware-0.6-x86_64-cd5.iso 26. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-0.6-iso/frugalware-0.6-x86_64-cd6.iso 27. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-0.6-iso/frugalware-0.6-x86_64-cd7.iso 28. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-0.6-iso/frugalware-0.6-x86_64-cd8.iso 29. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-0.6-iso/frugalware-0.6-x86_64-cd9.iso 30. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-0.6-iso/frugalware-0.6-x86_64-dvd1.iso 31. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-0.6-iso/frugalware-0.6-x86_64-dvd2.iso 32. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-0.6-iso/frugalware-0.6-x86_64-tftp.img.gz 33. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-0.6-iso/frugalware-0.6-x86_64-usb.tar.gz 34. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-0.6-iso/fwchroot-0.6-x86_64.tar.bz2 35. http://frugalware.org/docs/stable/upgrade From noreply at frugalware.org Sat Mar 31 22:12:49 2007 From: noreply at frugalware.org (AlexExtreme) Date: Sat Mar 31 22:12:51 2007 Subject: [Frugalware-announce] Frugalware Newsletter Issue 2 Message-ID: <20070331201249.9A91713A40AB@genesis.frugalware.org> The second issue of our newsletter has been released! You can read it [1] here . We hope you like it! References 1. http://frugalware.org/newsletter/2