News

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!

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.

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!

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of 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
• Package updates:
  • 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

Please refer to the Frugalware Locris ChangeLog for more information.

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!

KMS is now enabled by default in Frugalware-current. It’s recommended to read the relevant part of the upgrade documentation before you upgrade to avoid unexpected results.

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!

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:

• #3884 - firefox
• #3882 - flashplugin
• #3878 - slim
• #3821 - clamav
• #3773 - file
• #3772 - tunapie
• #3771 - poppler
• #3769 - pango
• #3768 - gnutls
• #3766 - cscope

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!

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.1, our eleventh stable release.

No new features have been added since 1.1rc2, but 177 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 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.

Please refer to the Frugalware Getorin ChangeLog for more information.