The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.6rc2, the second technical preview of the upcoming 1.6 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.6rc1: Package updates: Linux kernel 3.1.10 LibreOffice 3.4.5 ~100 updated packages 27 new packages New features: New cpupower (LWN article) and perf packages kmod replaced module-init-tools Fixes: The installer now handles network timeout errors Documentation updates Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

Before too much of the new year goes past we wanted to take the opportunity to review the achievements of 2011 and look ahead to what’s planned for 2012. It’s an exciting period in Frugalware’s development with the development team making progress in many areas. This article highlights some of the major achievements and planned projects but not all of them. If you are interested in following the progress of any particular project, subscribe to the appropriate mailing list: frugalware-devel if you’re interested in development discussion of all Frugalware projects, and frugalware-git-commits if you want to track individual commits.

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.6rc1, the second technical preview of the upcoming 1.6 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.6pre2: Package updates: Linux kernel 3.1.8 Systemd 38 Firefox 9.0.1 383 updated packages 121 new packages 8 replaced packages New features: After being away for 6 releases, Fwlive is back on the scene! Cinnamon Desktop is available as package.

In few hours, it’s Christmas, and guess what ? The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to offer you a gift: the new version of FWLive (Frugalware Live CD/DVD). FWLive is available in different versions: GNOME Desktop Live-CD (fwlive-gnome-*.iso) KDE Desktop Live-CD (fwlive-kde-*.iso) XFCE Desktop Live-CD (fwlive-xfce-*.iso) LXDE Desktop Live-CD (fwlive-lxde-*.iso) Educative Edition Live-CD (fwlive-education-*.iso) Gamer Live-DVD Edition (fwlive-gamer-*.iso) To know: By default, the keyboard is qwerty For now, the only languages available are: en,de,fr,it,hu Default user login and password are: fwlive.

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.6pre2, the second technical preview of the upcoming 1.6 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.6pre1: Package updates: Linux kernel 3.1 XOrg server 1.11.2 KDE SC 4.7.4 Firefox 8.0.1 Chromium 16.0.912.63 Blender 2.60 1.1.0 release of the core EFL component New features: All services used by the default installation now have native systemd units Installer images now use isohybrid on x86, separate USB images no longer provided.

We have a new bug tracker system. Flyspray is obsolete since a while and we have chosen trac. All reports have been imported. If you has an account with the previous bts, you must reset your password as indicated on the main page. Special thanks from Frugalware developers to Xarkam for his work!

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.6pre1, the first technical preview of the upcoming 1.6 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.5: Package updates: Linux kernel 3.0 GNU C Library 2.14 GCC 4.6 GNOME 3.2 KDE SC 4.7 Perl 5.14 New features: rsyslog is the new default syslog daemon udisks replaced hal in the default installation The fw32 package replaced the emul-extra group, bringing seamless integration for e.

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 was “up in the air” Slown is officially a developer Cedynamix is back! Tips and Tricks - “Bash shell aliases” and “Tell me when you’re finished” Focus on Packages - Gource and Duplicity Frugalware Exam #3 - Answers You can read it here. We hope you enjoy reading it.

If you are upgrading current or to current any time soon, you will need to take special measures. We have switched our stock kernel to using an initrd by default now, but this only effects i686 and x86_64 for now. All other archs are unchanged. If you are running a fairly simple grub setup, you only need to run grubconfig after the complete upgrade. If not, then you need to add this line to your Frugalware menu entry in menu.

Dear users, I’m sorry to report that one of the important servers of the Frugalware infrastructure was compromised on August 25. It took a while to find out the details of how that was possible, read here if you’re interested. In short: we found that the attacker installed a backdoor similar to the one installed on kernel.org recently. We have already reinstalled the operating system, plus taken steps to prevent a similar attack in the future.