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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:

• kikadf is officially a Frugalware developer
• Botchchikii submits more FrugalBuilds
• Tips and tricks - Adding a custom Frugalware repository to pacman-g2’s configuration
• Focus On Package(s) - QTM and cclive

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

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 code-name ‘Nexon’
• Helicon is alive again!
• Botchchikii’s first Frugalbuild
• Pingax delivers more FrugalBuilds
• Tips and tricks - tar and xz

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

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 1.3 released
• bouleetbil - is there only one?
• New contributor - Xarkam
• How to make a feature request
• Focus On Package(s) - Talika and etckeeper

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

With the release of Haven, the support for Locris is discontinued. It is highly recommended to upgrade to our new stable release, as there will be no more security and bug fixes for Locris.

We have released FSA637 to FSA691 for Getorin. That means 55 security problems were fixed in half a year.

If you update to Haven, it will also fix the following vulnerability:

• #4292 - clamav

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.3, our thirteenth stable release.

No new features have been added since 1.3rc2, but 94 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 1.1 in no particular order:

• Updated packages: Linux kernel 2.6.35, Xorg server 1.8, GNOME 2.30, KDE 4.4.5 to name a few major components.
• For the first time in the history of Frugalware Linux, we’re offering an official graphical netinstall image, search for the “-gui” suffix on the ftp mirrors.
• This time we’ve verified that no workaround is needed to install this release in VMware and because of this, the relevant note is removed from the documentation.
• The monolithic configuration of XOrg is now split to the xorg.conf.d directory. You can still use the monolithic config, but the config files in the new directory have priority. XOrg now also uses udev to detect your hardware automatically, /etc/X11/xorg.conf is no longer generated by default.
• Updated image libraries: libjpeg 8 and libpng 1.4. While adding support for these new libraries, we touched 1500+ packages, doing various minor fixes and improvements here and there.

Please refer to the Frugalware Haven ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware’s planet - the web site which aggregates content from blogs - has moved from planetplanet software to bilboplanet. There were some issues with planetplanet and, after discussion amongst the development team, the change was done by Frugalware developer Devil505.

The rules state that only posts which are likely to be of interest to Frugalware’s users are to be included, so if you subscribe you can enjoy reading about the laughter and tears, hopes and fears, successes and failures which make the community so exciting. Of course if have a blog, please consider adding it to the planet. To do this, go to the planet’s home page and complete the subscription form.

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 Frugalware package contributor
• Kernel 2.6.35
• Tips and tricks - What’s contained in package X?
• Focus on Package(s) - Googsystray and gst123

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

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 release party has been cancelled
• Tips and tricks - Be bold and try a new font!
• Focus On Package(s) - NetSurf and gbainy

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

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.3rc2, the second candidate of the upcoming 1.3 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.3rc1:

• Improvements and fixes:
  • The included new Linux 2.6.35 kernel comes with various new drivers and features (summary).
  • Fixed the USB installer, the image we shipped in 1.3rc1 was missing a working bootloader on it.
  • Fixed the KDE artwork.
  • A candidate of the 1.2 to 1.3 upgrade guide is now available.
• Package updates:
  • Linux 2.6.35
  • Mozilla Firefox 3.6.8, Chromium 6.0.472.14 with vp8 support
  • Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.1
  • 429 package updates
  • 46 new packages

Please refer to the Frugalware Haven ChangeLog for more information.

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.3rc1, the first candidate of the upcoming 1.3 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements and changes since 1.3pre2:

• Improvements:
  • X.org now uses udev to detect your hardware automatically, /etc/X11/xorg.conf is no longer generated by default.
  • Started integrating the Haven artwork.
• Package updates:
  • Linux 2.6.34.1
  • GNOME 2.30.2
  • KDE SC 4.4.5
  • Mozilla Firefox 3.6.6
  • Updated libraries: openssl-1.0.0, libburn-0.8, exiv2-0.20, ffmpeg-0.6.
  • 429 package updates
  • 46 new packages

Please refer to the Frugalware Haven ChangeLog for more information.