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The Frugalware homepage is now available in Italian and can be found here: http://frugalware.org/it.

The Frugalware homepage is now available in Spanish and can be found here: http://frugalware.org/es. One of Frugalware’s founding principles was that it be accessible to people in their native language and this is one step forward along that path. Many thanks to all who were involved in providing translations and we hope this continues for many years to come.

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 1.4 Release Candidate 2 released
• Frugalware tweak! and Frugalware tweak 2! ???
• Do-dec-a-he-what!?
• Frugalware’s users are people too!
• Tips and Tricks - Find your fastest mirror.

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

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.4rc2, the second candidate of the upcoming 1.4 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.4rc1:

• Package updates:

• Linux 2.6.37 + fixes
• KDE SC 4.5
• Drupal 7 obsoletes Drupal 5. If a drupal-5 package has its own drupal-6 counterpart (eg. drupal-cck), then the drupal-6 one (drupal6-cck) replaces the old one automatically. If a drupal-5 package DOES NOT have its own drupal6 counterpart, then the drupal6 package replaces it - sorry for the inconvenience, those drupal-5 bastards are not even supported by upstream.
• systemd v16 - and 5 more packages now support systemd using native unit files

• Fixes:

• The CD/DVD installer can perform fully offline installation again.
• Various user interface fixes (missing icons in desktop files, etc.)
• Missing koffice localization packages are back (they were missing since the integration of KDE4).

Please refer to the Frugalware Nexon ChangeLog for more information.

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.4rc1, the first candidate of the upcoming 1.4 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.4pre2:

• Package updates:

• Linux 2.6.36.2
• Firefox 3.6.13, Chromium 10.0.616.0
• Midnight Commander 4.7.5

• New Features:

• New LCD font rendering available in GNOME. If you use digital video output, this will improve font appearance.
• OSSv4 has been added. Feel free to try it out if you have issues with ALSA.
• systemd is now available as an alternative of sysvinit (see its wiki page for more info).

Please refer to the Frugalware Nexon ChangeLog for more information.

The Frugalware team would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year.

Building on the achievements of 2009, 2010 was a very successful year. Frugalware featured upgrades to the Linux kernel, GNOME desktop, KDE desktop, X.org and other major packages. Current developers and contributors continued their great work and we welcomed several new developers and contributors. 2011 is almost certain to be an exciting year, so let’s get started!

Merry Christmas to everyone in the Frugalware community. Even if you don’t celebrate Christmas as a Christian festival, it’s a good time to reflect on your achievements and plan for the year ahead. 2010 has been an interesting, exciting and productive year for Frugalware Linux. Events have included many new developers and contributors. Thankyou to everyone who has contributed to our success, including: developers, contributors, translators, artists, bloggers, those who reported bugs and everyone who participated in the mailing lists and forums. In a community like Frugalware’s, everyone’s contribution is vital to our success. Plans for 2011 are still in development, but you can be sure it will be even more busy and exciting than 2010. In the meantime, we wish you the very best of the season and look forward to “seeing” you again next year.

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 1.4 pre-release 2 is available
• systemd is to be the new init system
• Xfce 4.8 is on its way
• Frugalware’s users are people too! - Melko
• Tips and tricks - Colour your ‘man’ output

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

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.4pre2, the second technical preview of the upcoming 1.4 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.4pre1:

• Package updates:

• Linux 2.6.36
• Firefox 3.6.12, Chromium 8.0.552.215
• Glasgow Haskell Compiler 7.0

• New Features:

• netconfig now supports mobile 3g connections though wvdial

• Booting from virtio devices is now supported, as long as you use a separate /boot partition. (see here for details)

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 1.4 pre1 has been released
• We need you on the artwork team
• WHYANFC! (Woo hoo, yet another new Frugalware contributor!)
• “Best of” Tips and tricks"

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