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If you are upgrading current or to current any time soon, you will need to take special measures. We have switched our stock kernel to using an initrd by default now, but this only effects i686 and x86_64 for now. All other archs are unchanged. If you are running a fairly simple grub setup, you only need to run grubconfig after the complete upgrade. If not, then you need to add this line to your Frugalware menu entry in menu.lst. Here it is:

Dear users,

I’m sorry to report that one of the important servers of the Frugalware infrastructure was compromised on August 25. It took a while to find out the details of how that was possible, read here if you’re interested.

In short: we found that the attacker installed a backdoor similar to the one installed on kernel.org recently. We have already reinstalled the operating system, plus taken steps to prevent a similar attack in the future.

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.5, our fifteenth stable release.

No new features have been added since 1.5rc2, but 86 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 1.4 in no particular order:

• Updated packages: Linux kernel 2.6.39.3, XOrg server 1.10.3, GNOME 3, KDE SC 4.6.5, XFCE 4.8, LibreOffice 3.4.2, Mozilla Firefox 5.0.1 to name a few major components.
• New version of Pacman-g2 bringing some nice features.
• systemd is now the default init system.
• Initial ARM port.
• The boot splash is now provided by plymouth.
• i686 and x86_64 kernels can now boot from EFI. (However, the bootloader is not yet installable from setup.)
• In addition to EFI support, GPT partition tables are now enabled. gptfdisk is the recommended partitioner for this.
• The setuptools Python package is now replaced by distribute.

Please refer to the Frugalware Mores 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:

• Bon voyage, Carl
• Welcome back Jercel!
• pacman-g2 is now faster
• Frugalware Exam

You can read it here. We hope you enjoy reading it.

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.5rc2, the second candidate of the upcoming 1.5 stable release. Here are some of the improvements, fixes and updates since 1.5rc1:

• Package updates:
  • Linux Kernel 2.6.39.3
  • XOrg server 1.10.3
  • LXDE updated (lxsession-lite-0.4.6,lxpanel-0.5.7,lxlauncher-0.2.2,lxterminal-0.1.10…)
  • 1.0.1 release of the core EFL libraries
  • Mozilla Firefox 5.0.1
  • 245 packages updated
  • 20 new packages
• New features:
  • Our Vim package gained Python support.

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.5rc1, the first candidate of the upcoming 1.5 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.5pre2:

• Package updates:
  • KDE 4.6.5
  • Mozilla Firefox 5.0
  • LibreOffice 3.4.1
  • FFmpeg 0.8
• New features:
  • The setuptools Python package is now replaced by distribute.
  • Our gdb package gained Python support.

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

Pacman-g2 was upgraded to version 3.8.3 bringing some nice features.

Frugalware current users must do pacman -Sy pacman-g2 before upgrading their system (pacman -Syu). As you can see, the frugalware-current database must be synchronized again after pacman-g2 upgrade.

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 1.5 pre2 - “Mores” released
• Baste is officially a developer
• Bug in Bug Fixes section of the newsletter :O
• Orphaned packages find new “homes”
• Tips and Tricks - New features for pacman-g2
• Focus on Packages - Minitube and Plank

You can read it here. We hope you enjoy reading it.

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.5pre2, the second technical preview of the upcoming 1.5 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.5pre1:

• Package updates:
  • Linux kernel 2.6.39
  • LibreOffice 3.4
  • KDE 4.6.4
• New features:
  • The boot splash is now provided by plymouth.
  • i686 and x86_64 kernels can now boot from EFI. (However, the bootloader is not yet installable from setup.)
  • In addition to EFI support, GPT partition tables are now enabled. gptfdisk is the recommended partitioner for this.

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:

• New contributor - Baste;
• Frugalware GNOME Shell theme;
• Tips and Tricks - skeleton files and system information script;
• Users’ Desktop Screenshots - Botchchikii, Springbank and Slown;
• Focus on Packages - Quod Libet.

You can read it here. We hope you enjoy reading it.