Terminus: End of life

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

We have released FSA135 to FSA295 for Terminus. That means 161 security problems were issued in half a year.

If you update to Sayshell, it will also fix the following vulnerabilities:

Frugalware 0.7 (Sayshell) for i686 and x86_64 released

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El Equipo de Desarrolladore de Frugalware tiene el placer de anunciar la disponiblidad de Frugalware 0.7, our seventh stable release.

No se han añadido mejoras desde la 0.7rc2, but more than 150 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 0.6:

  • Up to date base system: Linux kernel 2.6.22.9, Glibc 2.6.1 and GCC 4.2.1
  • Up to date desktop packages: KDE 3.5.7, GNOME 2.20, XFCE 4.4.1, OpenOffice 2.3.0 and Firefox 2.0.0.7
  • A LiveCD called FwLive is now available for this release.
  • Setup: language-specific defaults (keymap, timezone, default mirror), the installation is now logged.
  • Supported new languages: Romanian, Swedish, Italian and Danish.
  • New graphical tools: Gfpm (package manager) and Gnetconfig (network configurator).
  • Documentation: The Frugalware User Manual is now more than 100 pages: tutorials, tips and tricks.

Por favor, leed el Sayshell ChangeLog for more information.

Kernel update in -current: WARNING for Intel users with IDE controllers

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As of kernel-2.6.22-6 in Frugalware-current, Intel users will have /dev/sd* devices rather than /dev/hd* ones. The reason is the following: It was not possible to boot the kernel on some machines without this change. See this bugreport for more details. So after upgrading using pacman -Syu, you need to:

  1. Check if you have an Intel IDE controller using sudo lspci |grep -i intel.*ide. If you got no result then probably you’re not affected.
  2. Edit /etc/fstab: change all occurrences of /dev/hd to /dev/sd.
  3. Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst: change all occurrences of /dev/hd to /dev/sd in the Frugalware entry.
  4. Reboot.

Thanks for your understanding!

Frugalware 0.7rc2 (Sayshell) disponible

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El Equipo de Desarrolladore de Frugalware tiene el placer de anunciar la disponiblidad de Frugalware 0.7rc2, the last candidate of the upcoming 0.7 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.7rc1:

  • Paquetes actualizados:
    • GNOME 2.20.0
    • OpenOffice.org 2.3 with OOXML support and Mozilla plugin
    • More than 1000 changes, mostly bugfixes
  • Nuevas mejoras:
    • Added Gfpm, a graphical package manager
    • New Gfpm and Gnetconfig plugins for Xfce4 settings manager
  • Setup:
    • Fixed PPPoE support
    • Slow format (when checking for bad blocks is enabled) works again for swap partitions
    • Fixed Swedish language support

Por favor, leed el Testing ChangeLog for more information.