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 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.lst. Here it is:
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.
The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.5, our fifteenth stable release.
No new features have been added since 1.5rc2, but 86 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 1.4 in no particular order:
Please refer to the Frugalware Mores ChangeLog for more information.
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:
You can read it here. We hope you enjoy reading it.
The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.5rc2, the second candidate of the upcoming 1.5 stable release. Here are some of the improvements, fixes and updates since 1.5rc1:
Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.
The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.5rc1, the first candidate of the upcoming 1.5 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.5pre2:
Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.
Pacman-g2 was upgraded to version 3.8.3 bringing some nice features.
Frugalware current users must do pacman -Sy pacman-g2 before upgrading their system (pacman -Syu). As you can see, the frugalware-current database must be synchronized again after pacman-g2 upgrade.
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:
You can read it here. We hope you enjoy reading it.
The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.5pre2, the second technical preview of the upcoming 1.5 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.5pre1:
Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.
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:
You can read it here. We hope you enjoy reading it.
