Frugalware Newsletter Issue 55

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 55

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:

  • The wiki is back!
  • Happy birthday to Devil505
  • FLOSS developers are people too
  • Let’s all go to Monaco
  • Getting to know you - Dependencies

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

Wiki is back !

Traducciones: EN, FR

Frugalware Linux official wiki is back online here. We encourage all frugalware users to contribute, please don’t forget to read the FrugalWiki Tutorial. Any comments and suggestions are welcome, ping Devil505 or Bouleetbil on #frugalware.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 54

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 54

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:

  • New artwork for ‘Locris’
  • “Who turned out the lights?”
  • ryuo’s on a mission!
  • FLOSS developers are people too - Stuart Rackham
  • Getting To Know You - What is a FrugalBuild?

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

Frugalware 1.2pre1 (Locris) disponible

Traducciones: EN, FR

El Equipo de Desarrolladore de Frugalware tiene el placer de anunciar la disponiblidad de Frugalware 1.2pre1, the first technical preview of the upcoming 1.2 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 1.1:

  • Improvements:
    • KMS (Kernel Mode-Setting) is now enabled by default for Intel and Radeon cards.
    • PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is now part of the base system
  • Paquetes actualizados:
    • Linux kernel 2.6.31 + fixes
    • GNOME 2.28
    • OpenOffice.org 3.1.1
    • Mozilla Firefox 3.5.4
    • More than 900 other package updates
    • More than 70 new packages

Por favor, leed el Locris ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 53

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 53

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:

  • What Planet are you on?
  • Frugalware is beautiful
  • Patches, patches and more patches from users
  • Frugalware’s users are people too
  • NEW! - FLOSS developers are people too

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

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 52

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 52

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:

  • Gnome 2.28 is now available
  • Frugalware’s users are people too - DeX77
  • Tips and tricks - “Seeing is believing”
  • Focus On Package(s) - Celestia and UKopp

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

Anacreon: End of life

Traducciones: EN, FR

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

We have released FSA589 to FSA616 for Solaria. That means 28 security problems were issued in half a year.

If you update to Getorin, it will also fix the following vulnerability:

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 51

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 1.1 (Getorin) was released
  • Frugalware 1.1’s release party
  • Getting To Know You - Vanilla packages
  • Tips and tricks - RTFM

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

Frugalware 1.1 (Getorin) disponible

Traducciones: EN, FR

Frugalware 1.1 Getorin is released !

El Equipo de Desarrolladore de Frugalware tiene el placer de anunciar la disponiblidad de Frugalware 1.1, our eleventh stable release.

No se han añadido mejoras desde la 1.1rc2, but 177 problemas menores. Si no seguisteis los cambios durante la salida de la pre/rc, aquí tenéis algunos de los más importantes desde la 1.0 in no particular order:

  • Up to date packages: Linux kernel 2.6.30.5, GNU C library 2.10.1, Xorg 7.4 with xorg-server 1.6, GNOME 2.26.3, XFCE 4.6.1, GCC 4.4.0 to name a few major components.
  • Major review in the documentation: numerous grammatical fixes and various extensions.
  • An x86_64 flash plugin is now part of the default installation.
  • Etoile is now part of the repository, see this post for more details.
  • Major update on the graphical installer (fwife), see the changelog here and there.
  • Packaged android-sdk, for those who want network access from Frugalware through their Android phones.
  • Just a FYI in case you are using the ext3 filesystem, which is our current default: though we ship the latest stable kernel, we did not switch the default value of the ‘data’ option to ‘writeback’, the feature which still makes ext3 seem more robust than ext4 at the time of writing. See here for more information.
  • New artwork includes a new wallpaper and a new Gnome theme.

Por favor, leed el Getorin ChangeLog for more information.