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.

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.

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.

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

Welcome to the brand new Frugalware homepage! This is a complete rewrite of our homepage, featuring table-less design, XML for data storage, user-friendly URLs with mod_rewrite and easy translations with Gettext. If you would like to help translate the page, please post to the frugalware-devel mailing list. If you find any bugs while using the page, please report them to the Bug Tracker under the Homepage category, or visit our IRC channel and report them to AlexExtreme or IroNiQ.

For those of you that use the current branch of Frugalware, nVidia and ATI binary drivers are currently broken due to the upgrade to Xorg 7.1. Specifically, fonts do not display at all on screen. There are 2 solutions to this problem - either downgrade all Xorg packages, or switch to using the open source Xorg drivers for your card in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. (ati and nv). Note that Frugalware 0.5pre1 is not affected unless you have run pacman -Syu since installation.

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.5pre1, the first technical preview of the upcoming 0.5 stable release for the i686 architecture. A short and incomplete list of the more than 3000 changes since 0.4: Updates: GNU C Library 2.4 GCC 4.1.0 KDE 3.5.2 More than 300 new packages New features: Created a new tool, called ‘setup’, to summarize the available configuration tools. (screenshot) Localized the package manager.

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.4 for the i686 and x86_64 architectures, our fourth stable release. A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.4rc2-i686: Updates: Update to Linux 2.6.16 Update to GNOME 2.14 Update to OpenOffice.org 2.0.2.1 Lots of minor bugfixes Create a howto about upgrading from the previous stable release A few statistics since 0.3: 4186 changes 732 new packages 302 fixed bugs For who haven’t followed the changes in the pre/rc releases, the most important changes:

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.4rc2-i686, the last release candidate of the 0.4-i686 stable release. A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.4rc1-i686: New features: Better support for changing between opensource and proprietary ATI/NVIDIA drivers. All packages have been reviewed to work perfectly with X.Org 7.0. Various spelling fixes in the configuration tools. Fixed font settings for non-English users. Reworked the mirror mechanism to ensure that the iso images are available on all mirrors at release time.