El Equipo de Desarrolladore de Frugalware tiene el placer de anunciar la disponiblidad de Frugalware 0.8rc1, the first release candidate of the upcoming 0.8 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.8pre2:

• Bugfixes:
  • Improved Splash: it now presents till the very end of the shutdown process.
  • Fixed the “packages one by one” select method in the installer.
  • The LiveCD now supports copy the disc to RAM if enough memory is available to free up your CD/DVD drive.
• Paquetes actualizados:
  • Linux 2.6.23.14 + security fixes
  • Xorg 7.3 + security fixes
  • GNOME 2.20.3
  • More than 300 other package updates
• New packages:
  • etckeeper - keeps your /etc under version control
  • linuxwacom - support for the Wacom tablets
  • New Xorg drivers
  • More than 20 other new package

Por favor, leed el Testing ChangeLog for more information.

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

In this issue:

• Frugalware 0.8 (“Kalgan”) pre-release 2
• Newsletter now in French and Danish

You can read it here. We hope you like it!

Dear Frugalware-current users out there,

You probably noticed that we did not update X.Org for a while. This happened as in our opinion the version we already have packaged was still more stable then any of the newer versions, so we sticked to X.Org 7.2 and decided to maintain it, instead of upgrading to a newer version for some time. Now it’s time to upgrade!

Finally upstream released an updated X server which seem to be: 1) as stable as the good old one we currently have, 2) featuring no more blocker problems like the ones in X.Org 7.3 did. So in short: time for testing!

El Equipo de Desarrolladore de Frugalware tiene el placer de anunciar la disponiblidad de Frugalware 0.8pre2, the second technical preview of the upcoming 0.8 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.8pre1:

• Nuevas mejoras:
  • Support for executing hooks inside the package manager - e.g. after a successful system upgrade.
  • Improved blacklisting support for kernel modules.
• Paquetes actualizados:
  • Xfce 4.4.2 - with bugfixes and translations
  • OpenOffice.org 2.3.1 - with security and bugfixes
  • Tcl and Tk 8.5 - with support for anti-aliased fonts
  • Octave 3.0.0 - compatibility with Matlab graphics is much better now
  • Updated encryption libs - gnutls-2.2 and libgcrypt-1.4

Por favor, leed el Testing ChangeLog for more information.

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

In this issue Dex77 helps out Splashy, Frugalware gets a little more Danish, we wish you Merry Christmas and more.

You can read it here. We hope you like it!

The tenth issue of our newsletter has been released! You can read it here. We hope you like it!

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

We have released FSA135 to FSA295 for Terminus. That means 161 security problems were issued in half a year.

If you update to Sayshell, it will also fix the following vulnerabilities:

• #2055 - MySQL
• #2291 - mldonkey
• #2409 - QGit
• #2424 - OpenOffice
• #2429 - VMware
• #2456 - ImageMagick

El Equipo de Desarrolladore de Frugalware tiene el placer de anunciar la disponiblidad de Frugalware 0.7, our seventh stable release.

No se han añadido mejoras desde la 0.7rc2, but more than 150 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 0.6:

• Up to date base system: Linux kernel 2.6.22.9, Glibc 2.6.1 and GCC 4.2.1
• Up to date desktop packages: KDE 3.5.7, GNOME 2.20, XFCE 4.4.1, OpenOffice 2.3.0 and Firefox 2.0.0.7
• A LiveCD called FwLive is now available for this release.
• Setup: language-specific defaults (keymap, timezone, default mirror), the installation is now logged.
• Supported new languages: Romanian, Swedish, Italian and Danish.
• New graphical tools: Gfpm (package manager) and Gnetconfig (network configurator).
• Documentation: The Frugalware User Manual is now more than 100 pages: tutorials, tips and tricks.

Por favor, leed el Sayshell ChangeLog for more information.

As of kernel-2.6.22-6 in Frugalware-current, Intel users will have /dev/sd* devices rather than /dev/hd* ones. The reason is the following: It was not possible to boot the kernel on some machines without this change. See this bugreport for more details. So after upgrading using pacman -Syu, you need to:

1. Check if you have an Intel IDE controller using sudo lspci |grep -i intel.*ide. If you got no result then probably you’re not affected.
2. Edit /etc/fstab: change all occurrences of /dev/hd to /dev/sd.
3. Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst: change all occurrences of /dev/hd to /dev/sd in the Frugalware entry.
4. Reboot.

Thanks for your understanding!

El Equipo de Desarrolladore de Frugalware tiene el placer de anunciar la disponiblidad de Frugalware 0.7rc2, the last candidate of the upcoming 0.7 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.7rc1:

• Paquetes actualizados:
  • GNOME 2.20.0
  • OpenOffice.org 2.3 with OOXML support and Mozilla plugin
  • More than 1000 changes, mostly bugfixes
• Nuevas mejoras:
  • Added Gfpm, a graphical package manager
  • New Gfpm and Gnetconfig plugins for Xfce4 settings manager
• Setup:
  • Fixed PPPoE support
  • Slow format (when checking for bad blocks is enabled) works again for swap partitions
  • Fixed Swedish language support

Por favor, leed el Testing ChangeLog for more information.