From vmiklos at frugalware.org Thu Mar 2 07:41:18 2006 From: vmiklos at frugalware.org (VMiklos) Date: Thu Mar 2 07:41:23 2006 Subject: [Frugalware-announce] Frugalware 0.4rc1-i686 released Message-ID: <20060302064117.GA13280@genesis.frugalware.org> The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.4rc1-i686, the first release candidate of 0.4-i686. A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.4pre2-i686: * New features: + Created an package synchronization client and daemon (syncpkg and syncpkgd) to make updating packages faster on arches other than i686 (x86_64 and later ppc). + Implemented fwcpan, a new tool to install any cpan module, just like it would when you install it with the pacman. + Splitted OpenOffice, now all language pack and dictionary can be separately installed/removed. + More than 80 new packages: Xgl (with a [1]step by step howto), beagle, fvwm-crystal, cdcat, klamav, kcheckgmail, xvidcap, synaptics, rt2500, rdiff-backup and much more! * Updates: As usual, Frugalware comes with the latest version of upstream stable releases, including: + Linux kernel 2.6.15.4 + Perl 5.8.8 + Firefox 1.5.0.1 + Thunderbird 1.5 + KDE 3.5.1 + GNOME 2.12.3 Please refer to the Frugalware [2]ChangeLog for more information. Download: [3]netinstall (19M), [4]cd1 (494M), [5]cd2 (605M), [6]dvd (3.2G) SHA1SUMS: d686c6b9c34fc03acab6be99468a4fc3b5e5d294 frugalware-0.4rc1-i686-cd1.iso 3f8f703d43a0f42bdb65d567c65840a6c14d4704 frugalware-0.4rc1-i686-cd2.iso 96a7e8b3cb88caa552a40e87dd04c7c23667e985 frugalware-0.4rc1-i686-dvd.iso 13f84d9fe9eedf197a146612244a8c3077dea5f0 frugalware-0.4rc1-i686-net.iso A full list of packages also [7]available. References 1. http://wiki.frugalware.org/Xgl 2. http://darcs.frugalware.org/darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi?r=frugalware-current;a=log 3. http://www7.frugalware.org/pub/frugalware/frugalware-current-iso/frugalware-0.4rc1-i686-net.iso 4. http://www7.frugalware.org/pub/frugalware/frugalware-current-iso/frugalware-0.4rc1-i686-cd1.iso 5. http://www7.frugalware.org/pub/frugalware/frugalware-current-iso/frugalware-0.4rc1-i686-cd2.iso 6. http://ftp.frugalware.org/pub/frugalware/frugalware-current-iso/frugalware-0.4rc1-i686-dvd.iso 7. http://ftp.frugalware.org/pub/frugalware/frugalware-current/Packages-i686.lst udv / greetings, VMiklos -- Developer of Frugalware Linux, to make things frugal - http://frugalware.org From vmiklos at frugalware.org Thu Mar 16 07:57:41 2006 From: vmiklos at frugalware.org (VMiklos) Date: Thu Mar 16 07:57:44 2006 Subject: [Frugalware-announce] Frugalware 0.4rc2-i686 released Message-ID: <20060316065741.GR28539@genesis.frugalware.org> The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.4rc2-i686, the last release candidate of the 0.4-i686 stable release. A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.4rc1-i686: * New features: + Better support for changing between opensource and proprietary ATI/NVIDIA drivers. + All packages have been reviewed to work perfectly with X.Org 7.0. + Various spelling fixes in the configuration tools. + Fixed font settings for non-English users. + Reworked the mirror mechanism to ensure that the iso images are available on all mirrors at release time. + More than 60 new packages: freenx packages + knx ([1]tutorial), lighttpd, sword, thunderbird-locale-switcher, katapult and much more! * Updates: As usual, Frugalware comes with the latest version of upstream stable releases, including: + Gcc 4.0.3 (and [2]optionally 4.1.0) + UDev 087 + MySQL 5.0.19 Please refer to the Frugalware [3]ChangeLog for more information. Download: [4]netinstall (19M), [5]cd1 (486M), [6]cd2 (576M), [7]dvd (3.4G) SHA1SUMS: 49701b761904ed9504198eba8ab1bacae1368d1f frugalware-0.4rc2-i686-cd1.iso 450038688aaf5d7e225b2777f092f604aeb1dc27 frugalware-0.4rc2-i686-cd2.iso f3d90ac6100acb5a8d0d84d3149d18d3b612b46f frugalware-0.4rc2-i686-dvd.iso 9ba1b1325545fd6fcf8353482fde25d82c1877ce frugalware-0.4rc2-i686-net.iso References 1. http://wiki.frugalware.org/Nx 2. http://wiki.frugalware.org/Gcc_building 3. http://darcs.frugalware.org/darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi?r=frugalware-current;a=log 4. http://localhost/download.php?url=frugalware-current-iso/frugalware-0.4rc2-i686-net.iso 5. http://localhost/download.php?url=frugalware-current-iso/frugalware-0.4rc2-i686-cd1.iso 6. http://localhost/download.php?url=frugalware-current-iso/frugalware-0.4rc2-i686-cd2.iso 7. http://localhost/download.php?url=frugalware-current-iso/frugalware-0.4rc2-i686-dvd.iso udv / greetings, VMiklos -- Developer of Frugalware Linux, to make things frugal - http://frugalware.org From vmiklos at frugalware.org Thu Mar 30 07:44:18 2006 From: vmiklos at frugalware.org (VMiklos) Date: Thu Mar 30 07:44:21 2006 Subject: [Frugalware-announce] Frugalware 0.4 for i686 and x86_64 released Message-ID: <20060330054418.GA5793@genesis.frugalware.org> The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.4 for the i686 and x86_64 architectures, our fourth stable release. A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.4rc2-i686: * Updates: + Update to Linux 2.6.16 + Update to GNOME 2.14 + Update to OpenOffice.org 2.0.2.1 + Lots of minor bugfixes + Create a [1]howto about upgrading from the previous stable release * A few statistics since 0.3: + 4186 changes + 732 new packages + 302 fixed bugs * For who haven't followed the changes in the pre/rc releases, the most important changes: + Implemented fwcpan, a new tool to install any cpan module, just like it would when you install it with pacman. + Split OpenOffice, now all language packs and dictionaries can be installed/removed separately. + Libificated pacman to meet our needs, and the newborn pacman 3 has become the default package manager. + Network configuration has been redesigned, now we support various network profiles, and many more network parameters (hardware address, multiple ip addresses on a single interface, etc) than before. + Created a new, more verbose documentation. + Switched to udev as the default hotplug multiplexer. + Bugfix: now automounting for usb sticks works fine, not only for CDs or DVDs. + Added package splitting support. + Started to work on a PPC port. + Rewritten setup from scratch in C. The new framework will allow to implement a graphical installer, too. + The init script system was redesigned: more user-friendly error messages, now uses gettext for translations. + Modularized Xorg 7.0, Apache 2.2.0, KDE 3.5.1, Firefox 1.5.0.1, Thunderbird 1.5 Please refer to the Frugalware [2]Stable ChangeLog for more information. Download for i686: [3]netinstall (19M), [4]cd1 (490M), [5]cd2 (604M), [6]dvd (3.5G) Download for x86_64: [7]netinstall (19M), [8]dvd (2.5G) Torrents also [9]available. Full package list: [10]i686, [11]x86_64 SHA1SUMS: dfec06c393187037a362f4d2e57819c4e97e71dd frugalware-0.4-i686-cd1.iso 09c29ec582eadc02dee2be0fd1230cff8ec40695 frugalware-0.4-i686-cd2.iso 872912bc9f1caa46895247364bcf7538074f8238 frugalware-0.4-i686-dvd.iso 6a1a49985450d2cad8c8efb7f988c266a454f899 frugalware-0.4-i686-net.iso 81e79a3bbb9d327555d272d841e3d0fc0c784de7 frugalware-0.4-x86_64-dvd.iso d4b39dbdc9bfadaf379bf7cc3662ce9d0b20a010 frugalware-0.4-x86_64-net.iso References 1. http://wiki.frugalware.org/Upgrade-0.3-0.4 2. http://darcs.frugalware.org/darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi?r=frugalware-stable;a=log 3. http://frugalware.org/download.php?url=frugalware-0.4-iso/frugalware-0.4-i686-net.iso 4. http://frugalware.org/download.php?url=frugalware-0.4-iso/frugalware-0.4-i686-cd1.iso 5. http://frugalware.org/download.php?url=frugalware-0.4-iso/frugalware-0.4-i686-cd2.iso 6. http://frugalware.org/download.php?url=frugalware-0.4-iso/frugalware-0.4-i686-dvd.iso 7. http://frugalware.org/download.php?url=frugalware-0.4-iso/frugalware-0.4-x86_64-net.iso 8. http://frugalware.org/download.php?url=frugalware-0.4-iso/frugalware-0.4-x86_64-dvd.iso 9. http://linuxtracker.org/index.php?cat=146 10. http://ftp.frugalware.org/pub/frugalware/frugalware-0.4/Packages-i686.lst 11. http://ftp.frugalware.org/pub/frugalware/frugalware-0.4/Packages-x86_64.lst udv / greetings, VMiklos -- Developer of Frugalware Linux, to make things frugal - http://frugalware.org