We are pleased to inform our Hungarian users that the HUP (Hungarian Unix Portal) made a complete forum for us, which is available here.

In the near future two new things will be available in our webpage: the Wiki page and our Forum.

Besides these things, the Frugalware will widen with the slovak language. The Frugalware User Documentation is ready (can be read here) in slovak language, the translation of the setup and the init system is going on now.

El Equipo de Desarrolladore de Frugalware tiene el placer de anunciar la disponiblidad de Frugalware 0.2pre1, the first preview of the upcoming 0.2 stable release.

A short list of most important improvements and fixed bugs since 0.1:* new packages:

+ GNOME 2.8 (including GDM)
+ Xfce 4.2rc3
+ Firefox 1.0 language packs
+ Thunderbird 1.0
+ tetex-bin, tetex-base and kile
+ wine
+ reiser4progs
+ fluxbox

• updates:

  • updated KDE to 3.3.2 (+ security fixes)
  • KOffice updated to 1.3.5
  • kernel updated to 2.6.10 (+ security fixes)
  • blender updated to 2.36
  • Firefox updated to 1.0
  • new bootsplash theme
  • GTK+2 updated to 2.6.1
  • GCC updated to 3.4.3

• fixes:

El Equipo de Desarrolladore de Frugalware tiene el placer de anunciar la disponiblidad de the long-time expected Xfce4 window manager and the xfce4-goodies package. Besides new language packages are available to the firefox browser.

Install method:

• Syncronizing package database: pacman -Sy
• installing Xfce4: pacman -S xfce4
• installing xfce4-goodies: pacman -S xfce4-goodies
• installing firefox language packages: pacman -S firefox-$lang (where $lang is the two-letter language code, like: hu, de, fr)

Today, approximately between 17-18h (CET), frugalware.org will be unavailable. This affects all (www, ftp, rsync, mailman) services, except dns. Thank for your understanding.

Two new functions are available on our webpage: the roadmap, where you can find our releasing cycle, and the wishlist/todolist, where you can ask for your favourite program or see the list, what do we have to do.

OSDir installed a Frugalware 0.1 to a test machine and took 78 pictures during installation, wich can be found here.

El Equipo de Desarrolladore de Frugalware tiene el placer de anunciar la disponiblidad de Frugalware 0.1, our first stable release.

A short list of improvements and fixed bugs since rc2:* improvements:

+ added support for using a separate /boot partition
+ moved all removable media entries from /mnt to /media
+ updated kde to 3.3.1

• new packages:

  • strace
  • openbox, obconf, and their dependencies
  • irssi
  • lmsensors
  • nano
  • hunspell
  • screen
  • centericq

• fixes:

El Equipo de Desarrolladore de Frugalware tiene el placer de anunciar la disponiblidad de Frugalware 0.1rc2, the second release candidate of the 0.1 release.

For a list of improvements and fixed bugs since rc1, please refer to the Frugalware Change Log.

Frugalware 0.1rc2 can be downloaded by visiting the download page.

El Equipo de Desarrolladore de Frugalware tiene el placer de anunciar la disponiblidad de Frugalware 0.1rc1, the first release candidate of the 0.1 release.

For a list of improvements since the beginning, please refer to the Frugalware Change Log.

Frugalware 0.1rc1 can be downloaded by visiting the download page.

seems to work… ;-)