From noreply at frugalware.org  Mon Jan 11 01:03:24 2010
From: noreply at frugalware.org (Miklos Vajna)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 01:03:24 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [Frugalware-announce] Frugalware 1.2pre2 (Locris) released
Message-ID: <20100111000324.AF4141240011@genesis.frugalware.org>

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to [1] announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.2pre2, the second technical preview
of the upcoming 1.2 stable release.
A short and incomplete list of changes since 1.2pre1:

  * Improvements:
	   + Introduced devtmpfs: you can now exclude /dev from backups, along with /proc and
	     /sys.
	   + Removed several large games from the install images (CD/DVD) which means one
	     less DVD or 4 less CDs.

  * Package updates:
	   + Linux kernel 2.6.32 + fixes
	   + GNU C Library 2.11
	   + Mozilla Firefox 3.5.7
	   + Thunderbird 3.0
	   + More than 800 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/157
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  Fri Jan 22 13:11:27 2010
From: noreply at frugalware.org (phayz)
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:11:27 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [Frugalware-announce] Frugalware Newsletter Issue 56
Message-ID: <20100122121127.1E3F41240011@genesis.frugalware.org>

The newsletter's aim is to keep you up to date with what's happened recently in
the world of Frugalware.

This issue of the newsletter is a special issue, devoted to a review of
Frugalware's achievements and events in 2009.