From noreply at frugalware.org Thu Feb 4 13:49:57 2010 From: noreply at frugalware.org (phayz) Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 13:49:57 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Frugalware-announce] Frugalware Newsletter Issue 57 Message-ID: <20100204124957.3EFC41240001@genesis.frugalware.org> 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: * Farewell to Jercel * Crazy's back * I am missing "you"... * Getting To Know You - Patches * FLOSS developers are people too - Jeff Bailes You can read it [1] here . We hope you like it! References 1. http://frugalware.org/newsletter/57 From noreply at frugalware.org Mon Feb 8 08:39:10 2010 From: noreply at frugalware.org (Miklos Vajna) Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 08:39:10 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Frugalware-announce] Frugalware 1.2rc1 (Locris) released Message-ID: <20100208073910.DDB3720E000A@genesis.frugalware.org> The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to [1] announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.2rc1, the first candidate of the upcoming 1.2 stable release. A short and incomplete list of changes since 1.2pre2: * Improvements: + We finally upgraded our KDE (and related) packages to the 4.x branch. The work started back in April 2009 and now we thought it's a good move to merge that testing repository. + Updated artwork. * Package updates: + KDE 4.3.5 + GNU C Library 2.11.1 + Mozilla Firefox 3.6 + Thunderbird 3.0.1 + More than 400 other package updates + More than 100 new packages Please refer to the Frugalware [2] Locris ChangeLog for more information. Download for i686: See our [3] mirror list . Don't forget to check the [4] integrity of the install images before burning! NOTE: Click [5] here to read more about what media you need for the installation. References 1. http://frugalware.org/news/160 2. http://ftp.frugalware.org/pub/frugalware/frugalware-testing/ChangeLog.txt 3. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-testing-iso 4. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-testing-iso/SHA1SUMS 5. http://frugalware.org/docs/install#_choosing_installation_flavor From noreply at frugalware.org Mon Feb 22 08:42:44 2010 From: noreply at frugalware.org (Miklos Vajna) Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:42:44 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Frugalware-announce] Frugalware 1.2rc2 (Locris) released Message-ID: <20100222074244.544491240001@genesis.frugalware.org> The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to [1] announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.2rc2, the second candidate of the upcoming 1.2 stable release.Here are some of the major improvements and changes since 1.2rc1: * Improvements: + This release comes with Xorg 7.5, see the [2] upstream list of new features . + We've updated our bluez userspace stack to the [3] 4.x branch , which allowed us to improve both GNOME and KDE bluetooth support. * Package updates: + Linux kernel 2.6.32.8 + fixes + OpenOffice.org 3.2.0 + libopensync 0.3x (the old 0.2x branch did not support KDE4) + git 1.7.0 + More than 500 other package updates + More than 40 new packages Please refer to the Frugalware [4] Locris ChangeLog for more information. Download for i686: See our [5] mirror list . Don't forget to check the [6] integrity of the install images before burning! NOTE: Click [7] here to read more about what media you need for the installation. References 1. http://frugalware.org/news/161 2. http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/RELNOTES.html#AEN26 3. http://wiki.bluez.org/wiki/Roadmap#BlueZ4.x 4. http://ftp.frugalware.org/pub/frugalware/frugalware-testing/ChangeLog.txt 5. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-testing-iso 6. http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-testing-iso/SHA1SUMS 7. http://frugalware.org/docs/install#_choosing_installation_flavor From noreply at frugalware.org Tue Feb 23 13:45:39 2010 From: noreply at frugalware.org (phayz) Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:45:39 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Frugalware-announce] Frugalware Newsletter Issue 58 Message-ID: <20100223124539.CD94B1240001@genesis.frugalware.org> 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's Gonna Git Ya" * Frugalware's artists are people too - WebEagle * FLOSS developers are people too - Ali Abdallah * Got a problem? Ask your teddy bear! * Focus On Package(s) - Droid fonts set You can read it [1] here . We hope you like it! References 1. http://frugalware.org/newsletter/58