KDE 3.4.0 packages are ready!

You can read the announcement here.

You can read about the new features here.

Packaging changes since 3.3.2:

• Changing groups: If you want to install only the core kde packages, use ‘pacman -S kde-core’, if you want additional packages (k3b, krusader, etc) use ‘pacman -S kde’.
• kde-i18n packages are in the ’extra/locale’ group.

New packages:

kde-i18n-br, kde-i18n-fy, kde-i18n-ga, kde-i18n-lt, kde-i18n-mk, kde-i18n-se

Removed packages:

kde-i18n-af, kde-i18n-el, kde-i18n-fa, kde-i18n-gl, kde-i18n-hr, kde-i18n-mn, kde-i18n-ms, kde-i18n-uz, kde-i18n-zh_TW

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.

Hi all! So, at last we made it! Our new forum can be reached here: forums.frugalware.org!

Any problems can be reported at: shrift@frugalware.org or at the “About the forum” topic.

Shrift

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 1.3.5
  • kernel updated to 2.6.10 (+ security fixes)
  • blender updated to 2.36
  • Firefox updated to 1.0
  • new bootsplash theme
  • GTK+2 updated to 2.6.1
  • GCC updated to 3.4.3

• fixes:

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.