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

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing 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:

• Frugalware wallpaper announcement
• Elentir has begun work on a GUI installer
• New donation
• Tips and tricks - Envy Code R monospace font
• Focus On Package(s) - rxvt-unicode (again) :)

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

For the first time in Frugalware’s history, we’re running a wallpaper competition. The aim of this competition is to get an original wallpaper for Frugalware’s 0.9 - “Solaria” - release. The winning entry will be set as the default wallpaper. It will also be the basis for various derivative works - e.g. KDE/GDM/SLiM themes, splash screens.

The successful entrant may be offered the opportunity to produce derivative works from their winning wallpaper. If they decline this offer, a Frugalware developer will produce these works based on the source files provided by the entrant (refer below for this condition).

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 pre2 released
• Wine is 1(.0) Happy birthday! :)
• Tips and tricks - Which packages are installed?

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

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.9pre2, the second technical preview of the upcoming 0.9 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.9pre1:

• Improvements:
  • FUN-0.3.0, which now supports News Notification. (Newsletters, releases, etc.)
  • Many less popular packages are no longer installed by default, reducing the required size of the default installation.
  • Replaced the ipw wireless driver with the newer iwl ones.
  • Reworked the ROX environment, binary packages are available again.
  • More than 2700 small changes.
• Package updates:
  • GCC 4.3.1
  • Firefox 3.0
  • OpenOffice.org 2.4.1
  • More than 760 other package updates
• New packages:
  • icecc - set of configuration tools for IceWM
  • libotr and irssi-otr
  • 10+ new fortune modules
  • 20+ new games
  • More than 200 other new packages

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing 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:

• Frugalware’s developers are people too! - phayz
• Skype plugin for Bitlbee has been upgraded to verson 0.6.0
• ryuo’s looking after older PCs
• Feature - Help! Frugalware needs YOU!
• Focus On Package(s) - Mrxvt

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

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’s developers are people too! - Devil505
• Tips and tricks - Get a better looking “man”
• Priyank is back!

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

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’s developer are people too! - IroniQ
• Tips and tricks - man - odd symbols appearing
• ryuo is now a developer!
• Users fight it out in IRC

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

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” pre1 released
• Frugalware’s developers are people too! - krix
• Save money with pacman-g2, cron and wget
• Focus On Package(s) - rxvt-unicode

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

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.9pre1, the first technical preview of the upcoming 0.9 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.8:

• Improvements:
  • The network configuration utility now lists card details next to interface names, in case you would now know what is the interface name for your cards.
  • The USB installer is now a plain image, you can copy it to your USB stick under any operating system (you needed a running Linux system to install the previous version).
  • Changed the CHOST variable to $arch-frugalware-linux from a mix of $arch-pc-linux-gnu / $arch-unknown-linux, which generally causes more consistency and helps reporting bugs for upstream developers.
  • Improved security and general user support. We work together with other Linux vendors to provide better security support, and now our forums are mirrored on a mailing list, so more developers can help you.
  • More than 150 other minor features / bugs have been implemented / fixed resulting in more than 2400 changes since the last release.
• Package updates:
  • Linux 2.6.25 + security fixes
  • GCC 4.3.0
  • GNOME 2.22
  • More than 900 other package updates
• New packages:
  • About 40 new Java library
  • Several new Drupal modules
  • Many new octave modules.
  • More than 150 other new packages

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.