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The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.8rc1, the first release candidate of the upcoming 0.8 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.8pre2:

• Bugfixes:
  • Improved Splash: it now presents till the very end of the shutdown process.
  • Fixed the “packages one by one” select method in the installer.
  • The LiveCD now supports copy the disc to RAM if enough memory is available to free up your CD/DVD drive.
• Package updates:
  • Linux 2.6.23.14 + security fixes
  • Xorg 7.3 + security fixes
  • GNOME 2.20.3
  • More than 300 other package updates
• New packages:
  • etckeeper - keeps your /etc under version control
  • linuxwacom - support for the Wacom tablets
  • New Xorg drivers
  • More than 20 other new package

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.

In this issue:

• Frugalware 0.8 (“Kalgan”) pre-release 2
• Newsletter now in French and Danish

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

Dear Frugalware-current users out there,

You probably noticed that we did not update X.Org for a while. This happened as in our opinion the version we already have packaged was still more stable then any of the newer versions, so we sticked to X.Org 7.2 and decided to maintain it, instead of upgrading to a newer version for some time. Now it’s time to upgrade!

Finally upstream released an updated X server which seem to be: 1) as stable as the good old one we currently have, 2) featuring no more blocker problems like the ones in X.Org 7.3 did. So in short: time for testing!

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.8pre2, the second technical preview of the upcoming 0.8 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.8pre1:

• New features:
  • Support for executing hooks inside the package manager - e.g. after a successful system upgrade.
  • Improved blacklisting support for kernel modules.
• Package updates:
  • Xfce 4.4.2 - with bugfixes and translations
  • OpenOffice.org 2.3.1 - with security and bugfixes
  • Tcl and Tk 8.5 - with support for anti-aliased fonts
  • Octave 3.0.0 - compatibility with Matlab graphics is much better now
  • Updated encryption libs - gnutls-2.2 and libgcrypt-1.4

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.

In this issue:

• Package updates
• Hint - Changing rights of files and libraries
• Happy New Year

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.

In this issue Dex77 helps out Splashy, Frugalware gets a little more Danish, we wish you Merry Christmas and more.

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.

In this issue we welcome a new release of Frugalware, put the ‘Windows’ key to good use in Gnome, reveal a bug in previous newsletters and more.

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

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.8pre1, the first technical preview of the upcoming 0.8 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.7:

• Package updates:
  • Linux 2.6.23 + fixes
  • GNU C Library 2.7
  • GCC 4.2.2
  • espgs is now replaced with the stock ghostscript
  • compiz-fusion replaced beryl, most users now can avoid XGL
  • more than 600 other upstream updates
  • more than 100 new packages, including 20 new games
• New features:
  • Added FUN (Frugalware Update Notifier), which resides in the user’s system tray and notifies if an update is available.
  • Added WPA support to the installer.

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

The tenth issue of our newsletter has been released! You can read it here. We hope you like it!

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:

• #2055 - MySQL
• #2291 - mldonkey
• #2409 - QGit
• #2424 - OpenOffice
• #2429 - VMware
• #2456 - ImageMagick