The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.3, our thirteenth stable release. No new features have been added since 1.3rc2, but 94 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 1.1 in no particular order: Updated packages: Linux kernel 2.6.35, Xorg server 1.8, GNOME 2.30, KDE 4.

Frugalware’s planet - the web site which aggregates content from blogs - has moved from planetplanet software to bilboplanet. There were some issues with planetplanet and, after discussion amongst the development team, the change was done by Frugalware developer Devil505. The rules state that only posts which are likely to be of interest to Frugalware’s users are to be included, so if you subscribe you can enjoy reading about the laughter and tears, hopes and fears, successes and failures which make the community so exciting.

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: New Frugalware package contributor Kernel 2.6.35 Tips and tricks - What’s contained in package X? Focus on Package(s) - Googsystray and gst123 You can read it here. We hope you enjoy reading it.

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 has been cancelled Tips and tricks - Be bold and try a new font! Focus On Package(s) - NetSurf and gbainy You can read it here. We hope you enjoy reading it.

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.3rc2, the second candidate of the upcoming 1.3 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.3rc1: Improvements and fixes: The included new Linux 2.6.35 kernel comes with various new drivers and features (summary). Fixed the USB installer, the image we shipped in 1.3rc1 was missing a working bootloader on it. Fixed the KDE artwork.

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.3rc1, the first candidate of the upcoming 1.3 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements and changes since 1.3pre2: Improvements: X.org now uses udev to detect your hardware automatically, /etc/X11/xorg.conf is no longer generated by default. Started integrating the Haven artwork. Package updates: Linux 2.6.34.1 GNOME 2.30.2 KDE SC 4.4.5 Mozilla Firefox 3.6.6 Updated libraries: openssl-1.

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: Default wallpaper for Frugalware 1.3 Frugalware exam #2 - Answers FLOSS developers are people too - Daniel G Taylor Tips and tricks - “What are a package’s compile-time options?” Just ask git! You can read it here. We hope you enjoy reading it.

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 1.3pre2 released Frugalware 1.3 release party planning is in progress Online training - packaging applications for Frugalware Frugalware exam #2 You can read it here. We hope you enjoy reading it.

Voting is open on Devil505’s blog for the default Frugalware 1.3 (Haven) wallpaper. A total of 22 fantastic submissions were received and it’s now up to you to vote for your favourite. The chosen wallpaper will not only be the default wallpaper but also used as the basis for other themes, including GDM/KDM/SLiM themes. Voting closes at midnight on 17 July 2010 (French local time), so please do vote because it’s a great opportunity to influence the look and feel of Frugalware.

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.3pre2, the second technical preview of the upcoming 1.3 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements and changes since 1.3pre1: Improvements: The monolithic configuration of XOrg is now split to the xorg.conf.d directory. You can still use the monolithic config, but the config files in the new directory have priority. Updated image libraries: libjpeg 8 and libpng 1.