[Frugalware-git] homepage-ng: Newsletter issue 56
Russell Dickenson (phayz)
russelldickenson at gmail.com
Fri Jan 22 13:11:24 CET 2010
Git-Url: http://git.frugalware.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=homepage-ng.git;a=commitdiff;h=dfece8c2a44dcfeffb71af38c476f1f7d8c68959
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Author: Russell Dickenson (phayz) <russelldickenson at gmail.com>
Date: Fri Jan 22 22:17:54 2010 +1000
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+ <h2>Frugalware Linux Newsletter - Issue 56</h2>
+
+ <h2>...to inform...to educate...to entertain</h2>
+
+ <p>"It is important that you recognize your progress and take pride in your
+ accomplishments. Share your achievements with others. Brag a little. The
+ recognition and support of those around you is nurturing."
+ Rosemarie Rossetti</p>
+
+ <h2>Welcome</h2>
+
+ <p>The newsletter's aim is to keep you up to date with what's happened
+ recently in the world of the Linux distribution 'Frugalware'.</p>
+
+ <p>This issue of the newsletter is a special issue, devoted to a review of
+ Frugalware's achievements and events in 2009. There will be a "normal" issue
+ published soon. Most of the content in this issue has come from Frugalware
+ developer Devil505's blog, with his permission. However any factual errors
+ are the responsibility of myself (Phayz).</p>
+
+ <h2>2009 - A Year In Review</h2>
+
+ <p>2009 was a very successful year for Frugalware, with new developers, new
+ artwork, work on KDE4 having begun. The two scheduled releases were made on
+ time and included some great improvements. Projects such as Fwife (the GUI
+ installer) and a live USB option may make Frugalware more attractive to the
+ FLOSS community. Blogs are now more active than before and, together with a
+ presence on microblogging sites such as identi.ca, make those outside the
+ Frugalware community aware that ours is a very active distribution.</p>
+
+ <p>It's important to acknowledge that Frugalware's achievements in 2009 were
+ only possible because of the excellent work done in previous years. Thanks go
+ to everyone involved, both now and in the past: developers, artists,
+ translators and other contributors. In 2009 we had several new developers
+ join the project, but we also had several existing developers go quiet or
+ leave. For many reasons, people need a rest, or decide to leave the project.
+ Regardless of their reasons we thank them for their contribution and wish
+ them well in the future.</p>
+
+ <p>Congratulations to everyone involved in the Frugalware community on a
+ great year. Let's hope that 2010 is even better.</p>
+
+ <h2>Do you remember when...?</h2>
+
+ <p>Below are some of the highlights of 2009's events and achievements. Do you
+ remember where you were when Frugalware 1.0 was released? If I remember
+ correctly, I was asleep.</p>
+
+ <h2>January</h2>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <h3>A new developer</h3>
+
+ <p>Elentir was accepted to the development team and immediately began
+ working on a Fwife, a GUI installer, soon releasing version 0.3.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <h3>gService</h3>
+
+ <p>Priyank released gService, a GUI service level manager.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <h3>Microblogging arrived</h3>
+
+ <p>Devil505 created a presence on Twitter. With the rise of identi.ca, an
+ open (as in "beer" and "free") microblogging service, he also created a
+ Frugalware group on that service. git commits began being announced on
+ identi.ca.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <h3>Baby steps for Cedynamix</h3>
+
+ <p>Cedynamix, already active in the Ubuntu community, took his first
+ steps as a Frugalware contributor.</p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <h2>February</h2>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <h3>New artwork</h3>
+
+ <p>A new wallpaper was voted by the developer team to be the default for
+ Frugalware release 1.0.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <h3>Count with me...1..2..3..4</h3>
+
+ <p>The ext4 filesystem generally having been accepted as an improvement
+ over the ext3 filesystem, it was added as an option in the ncurses
+ installer.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <h3>Gnome 2.26</h3>
+
+ <p>Gnome 2.26 was released and Bouleetbil began packaging it for
+ Frugalware.</p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <h2>March</h2>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <h3>We made it to 1.0!</h3>
+
+ <p>Frugalware 1.0 - codename 'Anacreon' - was released, with cheers from
+ millions of people, street parades and generally a lot of excitement. In
+ fact my memory's not very good, so I may be thinking of the election of
+ the USA's new president. I'm quite sure, though, that there was a lot of
+ excitement on 1.0's release. Five years of hard work by developers,
+ artists, translators and other contributors had resulted in a
+ distribution to be very proud of.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <h3>A new Gnome in the garden</h3>
+
+ <p>Gnome 2.26 was released to the 'current' repository, thanks to hard
+ work by Bouleetbil.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <h3>YAND - Yet Another New Developer</h3>
+
+ <p>After submitting a number of FrugalBuild files, Cedynamix was accepted
+ into the Frugalware development team.</p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <h2>April</h2>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <h3>Devil505 and KDE 4</h3>
+
+ <p>Devil505 began "playing" with KDE 4, working to resolve those problems
+ which prevented it being included in Frugalware.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <h3>Crazy returns</h3>
+
+ <p>After a period of convalescence, Crazy returned and began updating the
+ GCC chain. Of course anyone else would still have been resting at home,
+ but Crazy's dedication to Frugalware is (almost) unstoppable.</p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <h2>May</h2>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <h3>A new Xfce</h3>
+
+ <p>Xfce 4.6.1 was released to the 'current' repository, thanks to hard
+ work by Priyank.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <h3>Publicity for Frugalware</h3>
+
+ <p>VMiklos, Hermier and Bouleetbil were interviewed by Philippe Scoffoni.
+ Afterward they all claimed that their fame would not change them at all.
+ Is it a coincidence, though, that they began charging US$5 for an
+ autograph?</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <h3>Let's meet PAM</h3>
+
+ <p>Bouleetbil began working to integrate PAM into Frugalware, a change
+ which had been delayed for as long as possible for technical and security
+ reasons.</p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <h2>June</h2>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <h3>A new X</h3>
+
+ <p>X.org 7.4 was released to the 'current' repository.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <h3>Priyank's new baby</h3>
+
+ <p>Priyank released a new utility just for Frugalware, a Nautilus and
+ Thunar GFpm plugin.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <h3>A new developer</h3>
+
+ <p>Jercel was accepted into the development team.</p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <h2>July</h2>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <h3>A new developer</h3>
+
+ <p>Exceed, a former developer of the Slax-LFI Linux distribution, was
+ accepted into the development team.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <h3>Fwife 0.5</h3>
+
+ <p>Elentir released network installation ISOs which used Fwife 0.5.</p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <h2>August</h2>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <h3>A new KDE in progress</h3>
+
+ <p>Work began to package KDE 4.3.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <h3>CAN YOU HEAR ME!?</h3>
+
+ <p>PulseAudio, a sound server which allows for multiple inputs and
+ outputs, was released to the 'current' repository.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <h3>That's WIckeD!</h3>
+
+ <p>WICD, an easy-to-use GUI network connection utility created for the
+ Ubuntu distribution, was released to the 'current' repository.</p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <h2>September</h2>
+
+ <h2>October</h2>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <h3>A new Gnome in the garden</h3>
+
+ <p>Gnome 2.28 was released to the 'current' repository, thanks to hard
+ work by Bouleetbil.</p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <h2>November</h2>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <h3>"The Wiki Returns"</h3>
+
+ <p>No, it's not yet another Star Wars episode. Instead the Frugalware
+ wiki was available again after a few technical problems. Many thanks to
+ VMiklos, Devil505 and others for retrieving the old content. At the same
+ time, it was agreed that the artwork team's wiki would be merged with the
+ official wiki. Devil505 began the task of translating content from the
+ French-speaking community's wiki and adding this to the official wiki.
+ This was one of those situations when you realise how much you need
+ something only when it's no longer available. It's a little like moving
+ out of home for the first time (for those who have done this and can
+ still remember).</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <h3>Live USB</h3>
+
+ <p>Bouleetbil launched into his plan of creating a Live USB option for
+ Frugalware.</p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <h2>December</h2>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>Frugalware developer Crazy hadn't been heard of for some time and so
+ some people were a little worried. Thankfully news came direct from Crazy
+ that he was recovering in hospital. Finally we could squash those rumours
+ about why he had been away for so long, including:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>He had become involved in the Microsoft Windows 7 beta
+ programme;</li>
+
+ <li>He had switched to Ubuntu release 9.04 - "Karmic Koala";</li>
+
+ <li>His wife banned him from using any electrical device, even a
+ toaster.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <h3>YAPFB (Yet Another Project For Bouleetbil)</h3>
+
+ <p>Bouleetbil launched into another project, packaging Moblin.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <h3>Farewell Jercel</h3>
+
+ <p>Jercel left the development team for professional reasons.</p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+</body>
+</html>
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+ <title>Frugalware Newsletter Issue 56</title>
+ <date>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:15:17 +1000</date>
+ <author>phayz</author>
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+ <content><![CDATA[
+ The newsletter's aim is to keep you up to date with what's happened recently in the world of Frugalware.<br /><br />
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