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:

• GNOME 3 is now available
• Mores wallpaper proposal
• How do you know the end of the world has come?
• Tips and Tricks - “Am I missing something here?”
• Focus on Packages - Pogo
• Users’ desktop screenshots - Slown, Pingax and FrugalNL

You can read it here. We hope you enjoy reading it.

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.5pre1, the first technical preview of the upcoming 1.5 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.4:

• Package updates:
  • Linux kernel 2.6.38
  • Gnome 3.0
  • KDE 4.6
  • Firefox 4.0
  • XFCE 4.8 with some bug fix releases (4.8.1), see here the details brought by this version.
  • 1.0 release of the core EFL libraries (details)
• New features:
  • systemd is now the default init system
  • Initial ARM port
  • XFCE now has lcdfilter for fonts like GNOME
  • Full package archive is now available on DVD only, instead we offer a smaller (~200MB-sized) CD for installing a base-only system.

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the availability of the new major version of GNOME Desktop (3.0) into frugalware current repository.

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:

• ARM porting is complete
• Centuri0 is officially a developer
• Bulgarian translations are in progress
• Tips and Tricks
• Focus on Packages: minbif and Guake

You can read it here. We hope you enjoy reading it.

The Frugalware wiki has been upgraded and now complies with the official design. The wiki needs your contributions, so don’t hesitate to put there your personal HOWTOs, translate the current pages in your language, create new pages (see the TODO link on sidebar)…

The Frugalware user community is counting on you!

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 1.4 Nexon has arrived!
• Frugalware website has had a facelift
• You can now add your comments to each newsletter issue
• Get fit with Frugalware
• Focus on Packages - tig and Shutter

You can read it here. We hope you enjoy reading it.

systemd is now the default init system. Frugalware current users must do pacman -Sy systemd before upgrading their system.

With the release of Nexon, the support for Haven is discontinued. It is highly recommended to upgrade to our new stable release, as there will be no more security and bug fixes for Haven.

We have released FSA692 to FSA712 for Haven. That means 21 security problems were fixed in half a year.

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.4, our fourteenth stable release.

The only added feature since 1.4rc2 is LibreOffice (replaces OpenOffice.org), additionally 109 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 1.3 in no particular order:

• Updated packages: Linux kernel 2.6.37, Xorg server 1.9, GNOME 2.32, KDE SC 4.5, Drupal 7, Python 2.7 to name a few major components.
• Missing koffice localization packages are back (they were missing since the integration of KDE4).
• New LCD font rendering available in GNOME. If you use digital video output, this will improve font appearance.
• OSSv4 has been added. Feel free to try it out if you have issues with ALSA.
• systemd is now available as an alternative of sysvinit (see its wiki page for more info).
• netconfig now supports mobile 3g connections though wvdial
• Booting from virtio devices is now supported, as long as you use a separate /boot partition. (see here for details)
• The GUI installer is now part of the default net/cd/dvd installer images, you don’t have to download a separate image to use it.

Please refer to the Frugalware Nexon ChangeLog for more information.

The Frugalware homepage is now available in Italian and can be found here: http://frugalware.org/it.