Frugalware is a general purpose linux distribution, designed for intermediate users (who are not afraid of text mode).
We try to make Frugalware as simple as possible while not forgetting to keep it comfortable for the user. We try to ship fresh and stable software, as close to the original source as possible, because in our opinion most software is the best as is, and doesn’t need patching.
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:
GNOME bindings. Mono. Some packages in extra/gnome. Packaging changes from 2.8:
Prefix is /usr. Added groups() directive where it was missed. New packages:
gnome-backgrounds gnome-doc-utils gnome-menus gnome-pilot-conduits libcroco Removed packages (go to pasture):
at-spi gnome-mag gnome-speech gnopernicus gok nautilus-media Not packaged packages:
sound-juicer (I think goobox is better grabber application) 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.
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:
updated KDE to 3.3.2 (+ security fixes) KOffice updated to 1.
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:
Syncronizing package database: pacman -Sy installing Xfce4: pacman -S xfce4 installing xfce4-goodies: pacman -S xfce4-goodies installing firefox language packages: pacman -S firefox-$lang (where $lang is the two-letter language code, like: hu, de, fr)
Today, approximately between 17-18h (CET), frugalware.org will be unavailable. This affects all (www, ftp, rsync, mailman) services, except dns. Thank for your understanding.
Two new functions are available on our webpage: the roadmap, where you can find our releasing cycle, and the wishlist/todolist, where you can ask for your favourite program or see the list, what do we have to do.
The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.1rc2, the second release candidate of the 0.1 release.
For a list of improvements and fixed bugs since rc1, please refer to the Frugalware Change Log.
Frugalware 0.1rc2 can be downloaded by visiting the download page.