Two arcticles are published about Frugalware Linux. The first is an interview on jox.hu, a hungarian IT page. The article is available from here (only in Hungarian). The second is on Distrowatch.com. The Distrowatch staff chose the Frugalware Linux to the “Featured distribution of the week”. They spent some time to install and evaluate other, well-known Linux distributions and decided to give our distro that title. You can read this article here.

El Equipo de Desarrolladore de Frugalware tiene el placer de anunciar la disponiblidad de Frugalware 0.2, our second stable release.

A short list of the most important improvements and bugfixes since 0.2rc2:* updates:

+ Mozilla Suite to 1.7.7
+ MPlayer 1.0pre7

• new packages:

  • irda-utils (Utilities for infrared communication between devices)
  • frugalrledit (Runlevel Editor for Frugalware Linux.)

• fixes:

  • added patch to binutils to ignore as_needed libs that were not needed

Por favor, leed el ChangeLog for more information.

El Equipo de Desarrolladore de Frugalware tiene el placer de anunciar la disponiblidad de Frugalware 0.2rc2, the second (and last) release candidate of the upcoming 0.2 stable release.

A short list of the most important improvements and bugfixes since 0.2rc1:* updates:

+ updated GNOME to 2.10.1
+ Firefox (+ language packs) updated to 1.0.3
+ updated Linux kernel to 2.6.11.7
+ updated glibc to 2.3.5

• new packages:

  • bk-client (The Open Source BitKeeper Client)
  • xemacs (A highly customizable open source text editor and application development system.)
  • raggle (A console RSS aggregator, written in Ruby.)
  • lsof (Displays information about files open to Unix processes.)

• fixes:

El Equipo de Desarrolladore de Frugalware tiene el placer de anunciar la disponiblidad de Frugalware 0.2rc1, the first release candidate of the upcoming 0.2 stable release.

A short list of most important improvements and fixed bugs since 0.2pre2:* updates:

+ updated GNOME to 2.10.0
+ updated KDE to 3.4.0
+ updated Linux kernel to 2.6.11
+ Firefox (+language packs) and Thunderbird updated to 1.0.2
+ Xfce updated to 4.2.1

• new packages:

KDE 3.4.0 packages are ready!

You can read the announcement here.

You can read about the new features here.

Packaging changes since 3.3.2:

• Changing groups: If you want to install only the core kde packages, use ‘pacman -S kde-core’, if you want additional packages (k3b, krusader, etc) use ‘pacman -S kde’.
• kde-i18n packages are in the ’extra/locale’ group.

New packages:

kde-i18n-br, kde-i18n-fy, kde-i18n-ga, kde-i18n-lt, kde-i18n-mk, kde-i18n-se

Removed packages:

kde-i18n-af, kde-i18n-el, kde-i18n-fa, kde-i18n-gl, kde-i18n-hr, kde-i18n-mn, kde-i18n-ms, kde-i18n-uz, kde-i18n-zh_TW

If everything goes fine tomorrow GNOME 2.10.0 will be on mirrors.

Official release notes: http://www.gnome.org/start/2.10/notes/

These are untested and need to review or update:

• GNOME bindings.
• Mono.
• Some packages in extra/gnome.

Packaging changes from 2.8:

• Prefix is /usr.
• Added groups() directive where it was missed.

New packages:

• gnome-backgrounds
• gnome-doc-utils
• gnome-menus
• gnome-pilot-conduits
• libcroco

Removed packages (go to pasture):

• at-spi
• gnome-mag
• gnome-speech
• gnopernicus
• gok
• nautilus-media

Not packaged packages:

• sound-juicer (I think goobox is better grabber application)

Known “bugs” / need to fix:

El Equipo de Desarrolladore de Frugalware tiene el placer de anunciar la disponiblidad de Frugalware 0.2pre2, the second preview of the upcoming 0.2 stable release.

A short list of most important improvements and fixed bugs since 0.2pre1:* new packages:

+ OpenOffice.org 1.1.4 + language packs
+ frugalpkg (Graphical frontend to pacman)
+ gnomebaker (CD/DVD Burner for GNOME)
+ fglrx (Hardware Accelerated ATI driver for xorg)
+ wireless\_tools (including iwconfig)
+ audacity
+ fontforge
+ krusader
+ qemu (A fast processor emulator)
+ rpm

• updates:

We have good news to our users: the openoffice.org package is ready to use. This package was made from the Ximian OpenOffice.org. The main package is the “openoffice.org” what contains the user interface and also the dictionary, the hyphenation and the thesaurus in English.

The languaga packs are called “openoffice.org-i18n-xx” (where xx is the small country code, eg: hu, de, fr) and contains the dictionaries, the hyphenations and the thesaurus in te given language.

Hi all! So, at last we made it! Our new forum can be reached here: forums.frugalware.org!

Any problems can be reported at: shrift@frugalware.org or at the “About the forum” topic.

Shrift

We have good news to that users, who cannot join our irc server: we have a web interface to our irc channel. You can join the channel on this address. You can also find here the channel log.