Frugalware Newsletter Issue 31

Traducciones: EN, FR

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!

Frugalware 0.9 (Solaria) for i686 and x86_64 released

Traducciones: EN, FR

El Equipo de Desarrolladore de Frugalware tiene el placer de anunciar la disponiblidad de Frugalware 0.9, our ninth stable release.

No se han añadido mejoras desde la 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.

Por favor, leed el Solaria ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware 0.9rc2 (Solaria) disponible

Traducciones: EN, FR

El Equipo de Desarrolladore de Frugalware tiene el placer de anunciar la disponiblidad de 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.
  • Paquetes actualizados:
    • 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

Por favor, leed el Testing ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 30

Traducciones: EN, FR

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!

Frugalware 0.9rc1 (Solaria) disponible

Traducciones: EN, FR

El Equipo de Desarrolladore de Frugalware tiene el placer de anunciar la disponiblidad de 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.
  • Paquetes actualizados:
    • 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

Por favor, leed el Testing ChangeLog for more information.