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If you find any apps that don’t start with a message about libdbus-1.so.2 not found, we want to know about it now! Just submit a report with the package’s name to the Bug Tracker. Thanks!

We’ve upgraded to DBUS 0.9x in -current, meaning that some apps will be broken. We currently don’t want any reports on any broken apps so that we don’t get flooded by bug reports! We have a very big list of things that need rebuilding, so we’ll probably cover most apps over this week. We’ll post a note when we want your bug reports again!

Thanks!

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.5, our fifth stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.5rc2:

• Linux 2.6.17.11
• We are proud to be one of the first distributions that ship the stable GNOME 2.16
• 20 new packages

If you didn’t follow the changes during the pre/rc releases, here are the most important changes since 0.4:

• Up-to-date packages: GNU C Library 2.4, GCC 4.1.1, KDE 3.5.4, XOrg 7.1, OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 (a native version for x86_64 users, too)
• Security support: as of Frugalware-0.5, security support is provided until the release of the stable Frugalware-0.6. The -stable updates are only security fixes and bugfixes, no new features are added.
• Created a new tool called ‘setup’ to collect the available configuration tools.
• Localized the package manager (French, German and Hungarian translations are available)
• Switched from bootsplash to splashy, so that the splash can be used with any custom vanilla kernel, too.
• Installer improvements: Added wireless support, support for detecting other distributions and other operating systems, utf8-specific updates, all packages are available on CDs.
• fw-xgl-control: Easily enables/disables Xgl on your system with one simple command.
• fwmirror: A new tool to help mirroring Frugalware.

Please refer to the Frugalware 0.5 ChangeLog for more information.

It was a trouble for several users to upgrade the old nvidia package (locally-compiled at install) to the new, binary one. Here is the solution (provided that the database and the other packages are up-to-date):

pacman -Sfd nvidia --noconfirm

(No, it does not mean that we dislike the Software Freedom Day…)

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.5rc2, the second release candidate of the upcoming 0.5 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.5rc1:

• Updated GNOME to 2.16 Release Candidate (2.15.92)
• ~300 bugfixes
• Updated KDE and GRUB artwork
• More than 30 new packages: ntfs-3g, avifile, gnome-sharp and much more!

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

Download for i686:

NOTE: Don’t download CDs 3-9 or the second DVD unless you don’t have an internet connection

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.5rc1, the fist release candidate of the upcoming 0.5 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.5pre2:

• Updates:
  • Linux 2.6.17.8
  • KDE 3.5.4
  • Firefox 1.5.0.6
  • Thunderbird 1.5.0.5
  • Gnome 2.16 Beta 2 (2.15.91)
• New features:
  • Splitted the MySQL, PostgreSQL, Samba and LDAP packages so that having these servers installed is no longer forced on a desktop machine
  • fwmirror: A new tool to help mirroring Frugalware
  • fw-xgl-control: Easily enables/disables Xgl on your system with one simple command
  • Homepage: improved the binary packages page - now you can browse by categories and view reverse dependencies
  • Added a workaround for nVidia cards in Xorg 7.1
  • New 0.5 artwork (except KDE)
• Bugfixes:
  • Fixed handling of the dependencies of the language packs
  • Fixed netinstall when using PPPoE connection
  • Burning the first DVD iso no longer requires any overburn options

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.5pre2, the second technical preview of the upcoming 0.5 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.5pre1:

• Updates:

  • Linux 2.6.17 (+ security patches)
  • GCC 4.1.1
  • Apache 2.2.3
  • XOrg 7.1 (updated the fglrx driver accordingly, nVIDIA still doesn’t work)
  • GNOME 2.16 Beta 1 (there may be some problems with some Gnome and GTK software - see earlier news posts)
  • OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 (this time a native version is available for x86_64 users, too)

• New features:

All the GNOME packages have been updated to 2.15, so now would be the time to starting posting reports about any problems that you find. To do this, you can use our Bug Tracker. There are currently several known issues that we will try to fix soon. These are as follows

• Gaim gets SIGABRT when trying to add an account.
• Banshee Segmentation Faults at startup
• File-roller segmentation faults at startup

Yes, we know Gnome and GTK stuff is a bit broken in -current :)

This is because we have upgraded to GTK 2.10, and also we are upgrading Gnome to the development version (see the mailing list archive for reasons why). So please bear with us while we do this. The result at the end of this should be a faster and nicer Gnome. I will post here once we have finished upgrading, at which point it will be good to start posting bug reports about problems that you find.

Amazingly, in the time since our homepage upgrade, we’ve only had 1 bug report to do with the packages section. So now we can work on adding a few improvements. I’ve just written a kind of robot that automatically posts all news posts from the site to the Frugalware-announce mailing list. It works thanks to darcs post-hooks, so that whenever we push a change to the homepage darcs repository, the post-hook is run to check for new news posts. Don’t forget, if you do find a bug remember to post it on our Bug Tracker.