The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.2rc1, the first release candidate of the upcoming 0.2 stable release.
A short list of most important improvements and fixed bugs since 0.2pre2:* updates:
+ updated GNOME to 2.10.0
+ updated KDE to 3.4.0
+ updated Linux kernel to 2.6.11
+ Firefox (+language packs) and Thunderbird updated to 1.0.2
+ Xfce updated to 4.2.1
new packages:
KDE 3.4.0 packages are ready!
You can read the announcement here.
You can read about the new features here.
Packaging changes since 3.3.2:
New packages:
kde-i18n-br, kde-i18n-fy, kde-i18n-ga, kde-i18n-lt, kde-i18n-mk, kde-i18n-se
Removed packages:
kde-i18n-af, kde-i18n-el, kde-i18n-fa, kde-i18n-gl, kde-i18n-hr, kde-i18n-mn, kde-i18n-ms, kde-i18n-uz, kde-i18n-zh_TW
If everything goes fine tomorrow GNOME 2.10.0 will be on mirrors.
Official release notes: http://www.gnome.org/start/2.10/notes/
These are untested and need to review or update:
Packaging changes from 2.8:
New packages:
Removed packages (go to pasture):
Not packaged packages:
Known “bugs” / need to fix:
The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.2pre2, the second preview of the upcoming 0.2 stable release.
A short list of most important improvements and fixed bugs since 0.2pre1:* new packages:
+ OpenOffice.org 1.1.4 + language packs
+ frugalpkg (Graphical frontend to pacman)
+ gnomebaker (CD/DVD Burner for GNOME)
+ fglrx (Hardware Accelerated ATI driver for xorg)
+ wireless\_tools (including iwconfig)
+ audacity
+ fontforge
+ krusader
+ qemu (A fast processor emulator)
+ rpm
updates:
We have good news to our users: the openoffice.org package is ready to use. This package was made from the Ximian OpenOffice.org. The main package is the “openoffice.org” what contains the user interface and also the dictionary, the hyphenation and the thesaurus in English.
The languaga packs are called “openoffice.org-i18n-xx” (where xx is the small country code, eg: hu, de, fr) and contains the dictionaries, the hyphenations and the thesaurus in te given language.
Hi all! So, at last we made it! Our new forum can be reached here: forums.frugalware.org!
Any problems can be reported at: shrift@frugalware.org or at the “About the forum” topic.
Shrift
We have good news to that users, who cannot join our irc server: we have a web interface to our irc channel. You can join the channel on this address. You can also find here the channel log.
We are pleased to inform our Hungarian users that the HUP (Hungarian Unix Portal) made a complete forum for us, which is available here.
In the near future two new things will be available in our webpage: the Wiki page and our Forum.
Besides these things, the Frugalware will widen with the slovak language. The Frugalware User Documentation is ready (can be read here) in slovak language, the translation of the setup and the init system is going on now.
The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.2pre1, the first preview of the upcoming 0.2 stable release.
A short list of most important improvements and fixed bugs since 0.1:* new packages:
+ GNOME 2.8 (including GDM)
+ Xfce 4.2rc3
+ Firefox 1.0 language packs
+ Thunderbird 1.0
+ tetex-bin, tetex-base and kile
+ wine
+ reiser4progs
+ fluxbox
updates:
fixes:
The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the long-time expected Xfce4 window manager and the xfce4-goodies package. Besides new language packages are available to the firefox browser.
Install method: