News on Frugalware

Announcement of sundown

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 13:51:09 +0200

Today I have some sad news. The Frugalware project will be discontinued at the end of the year 2025. Everything will be archived, so if someone steps up and wants to continue where we left: feel free. If you want to encourage some original developers, come to the #frugalware.dev Channel on Libera.Chat.

For some history of the project, see vmiklos Blog Post.

I personally want to thank everyone involved in this project, giving me the chance to learn a lot more about the Linux Ecosystem than being a pure user would ever allow. Special thanks go to vmiklos, who was never mad at me when I broke things, and crazy who is one of the technical smartest people I know.

Toolchain bump and rebuild of all packages, switch to MariaDB and libjpeg-turbo

Sun, 18 Feb 2018 21:32:35 +0100

To mitigate the known vulnerabilities Spectre v1-v3 we bumped gcc to version 7.3 and enabled some hardening compile flags als also bumped the whole toolchain glibc to version 2.27, binutils to version 2.30 and all major languages. Ffmpeg bumped to 3.4.x and the Linux kernel to version 4.15.4. That lead to a mass rebuild of all packages. While at it we did the long overdue switch from MySQL do MariaDB and from libjpeg to libjpeg-turbo. Please be patient while the merge is running, as you might break everything if you update in the middle.

kernel bump to 4.11; nvidia nobuild

Tue, 02 May 2017 13:51:09 +0200

As of today the kernel in frugalware-current is version 4.11. As it stands now the nvidia module is - again - using some GPL only functions so its impossible to provide a compiled package is it would be illegal. Until nvidia provides a fixed package upstream nvidia package with the patch is marked as nobuild.

switch to multilib, drop of i686

Wed, 09 Nov 2016 11:55:45 +0100

After bumping the toolchain to gcc6 we had some trouble building some of the larger packages for i686. Since every dev is using x86_64 and the number of users still on i686 arch seems quite low, the decision to drop i686 completely was made. This raised the need to switch the lib32-extra packages - used mainly by steam and wine - that where build by stripping the i686 packages in the past, to a different buildsystem. crazy was so kind to establish a full multilib toolchain for that and some scheme (cross32.sh) so providing two flavors (x86_64 and lib32-extra) for one package. This work was merged yesterday and the two mentioned packages still work. If you find any issues feel free to raise some bug in the bugtracker.

toolchain bumped to gcc6

Fri, 30 Sep 2016 14:48:21 +0200

In the last weeks after the release of Frugalware 2.1 crazy went forward and bumped gcc to version 6.2.1. In a concentrated effort all developers worked in the gcc6 WIP repo and rebuild many packages with the new toolchain. Yesterday we merged that WIP into current. If you do your usual “pacman-g2 -Syu” you will be prompted to upgrade pacman-g2 first. Then you will get an error about llvm. So before doing the pacman-g2 upgrade you have to remove llvm and readd it after:

Frugalware 2.1 (Derowd) released

Mon, 05 Sep 2016 13:51:34 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 2.1, our twentyfirst stable release.

Important notice: Frugalware provided a -stable and -current tree in the past. As our team shrinked quite a bit lately we lack the manpower to continue providing a,

secure and stable tree while provding bleeding edge and latest package in another. Therefore we decided to move all users to the -current tree.

For users not wanting that we will provide a static, not updated snapshot of the -current tree each time we do a release.

Frugalware 2.0 (Rigel) released

Mon, 16 Feb 2015 10:09:09 +0100

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 2.0, our twentieth stable release.

No new features have been added since 2.0rc2. If you didn’t follow the changes during the rc releases, here are the most important changes since 1.9 in no particular order:

Package updates:
- Linux kernel 3.14.19
- Xorg server 1.15.2
- KDE 4.14.3
- GNOME 3.12.2
- Xfce 4.10.1
- LXDE 0.99.0
- LibreOffice 4.3.3.2
- Mozilla Firefox 35.0.1
- Chromium browser 39.0.2171.96
New features:
- MATE 1.8.1

Please refer to the Frugalware Rigel ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware 2.0rc2 (Rigel) released

Wed, 24 Dec 2014 09:47:14 +0100

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 2.0rc2, the second candidate of the upcoming 2.0 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 2.0rc1:

Package updates:
- LXDE 0.99.0
- KDE 4.14.3
New features:
- none

Download for i686 and x86_64: See our mirror list. Don’t forget to check the integrity of the install images before burning!

Frugalware 2.0rc1 (Rigel) released

Thu, 20 Nov 2014 08:53:38 +0100

This is the first release candidate for Frugalware 2.0.

This release contains many package updates and security fixes.

Updated packages: Linux kernel 3.14.19, XOrg server 1.15.2, GNOME 3.12.2, KDE 4.14.2, LibreOffice 4.3.3.2, Mozilla Firefox 33.1 to name a few major components.

Download for x86_64: See our mirror list. Don’t forget to check the integrity of the install images before burning!

pyFPM need testers

Tue, 11 Nov 2014 22:40:32 +0100

pyFPM is the legitimate successor of gFPM, with a new interface, a dedicated daemon for it and more ergnomics. It’s written in Python and uses GTK+2 and DBus to run.

Version 1.2.3 has been released a few days ago et is now considered as “stable”. You can test it without any issues (or only a very little). Packages are not yet available on Frugalware’s tree, but you can download them here.

Frugalware 1.9 (Arcturus) released

Tue, 05 Nov 2013 16:49:44 +0100

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.9, our nineteenth stable release.

No new features have been added since 1.9rc2. If you didn’t follow the changes during the pre/rc releases, here are the most important changes since 1.8 in no particular order:

Updated packages: Linux kernel 3.10.17, XOrg server 1.14.2, GNOME 3.8, KDE 4.11, LibreOffice 4.1.2.3, Mozilla Firefox 22.0 to name a few major components.
netconfig has been replaced by NetworkManager
frugalwareutils has been replaced by the new fvbeutils
vi binary symlinks are now configurable, used to be hardcoded to their packages
old display-manager-legacy.service has been dropped for the new systemd method of individual service files
console keymaps and x11 keymaps are now managed by the systemd method

Additionally, this marks the first stable release using the new installer that has been in development for a year already. It was redesigned from the bottom up to be more resistant to user errors and to be more stable. It should be stable enough by now for general use. However, at least one major feature of the old installer is absent from the new one. Network install images will not be generated for this release as this feature has not been reimplemented yet. At present, only 2 image types are available. Basic, which contains only packages from base group. Full, which contains all the packages from the main package groups only. From now on, images will not contain packages from any of the -extra package groups. They will only be available via download after the installation is complete. One final note about the x86_64 images. They support experimental booting on EFI systems, but they have no support for installing EFI bootloaders. If you wish to install to EFI, you will have to skip GRUB2 installation and install your own EFI bootloader instead.

Frugalware 1.9rc2 (Arcturus) released

Mon, 16 Sep 2013 16:58:51 +0200

This is the second release candidate for Frugalware 1.9.

This release fixes a number of minor issues with the installer.

A case where TAB would cycle through the wrong order with the widgets in the partition formatting window is now fixed.
Installer no longer relies on HOSTNAME for determining if it is within the live environment.
It is now possible to skip IPv6 configuration and adding a new user.
A case where a crash happened when the swap filesystem mount path is empty is now fixed.
A missing locale file is now symlinked on new grub installs. It was a harmless bug, but still needed fixing.
Installer now automatically starts after booting and the other TTYs have login information if you need shell access.

Download for i686 or x86_64: See our mirror list. Don’t forget to check the integrity of the install images before burning!

Frugalware 1.9rc1 (Arcturus) released

Mon, 02 Sep 2013 16:01:04 +0200

This is the first release candidate for Frugalware 1.9.

Starting with this release, our old display-manager-legacy.service and /etc/sysconfig/desktop system has been replaced by a system where each display manager provides their own service file. You can switch to this new system by using the new dmconfig utility or through use of systemctl.

Also, we have removed the vi symlinks that we used to provide. These were hardcoded to a specific editor (VIM) before. The new system is to manage these symlinks with the new viconfig utility or by manually creating the symlinks to your preferred editor.

recent changes in current

Mon, 26 Aug 2013 11:17:31 +0200

There has been changes in current recently. You will need to run the commands viconfig and dmconfig as root in a terminal to adapt to the changes we have done to the vi symlinks and display manager system. For more information, please see the upgrade notes here.

Frugalware 1.9pre2 (Arcturus) released

Mon, 01 Jul 2013 10:31:47 +0200

This is the second preview release of Frugalware 1.9.

Starting with this release, netconfig has been replaced by our new nmconfig tool which uses the NetworkManager framework instead of our original custom network management code. This reduces the amount of custom code we must maintain for our distribution.

Also of note is the fact that the entire collection of tools from frugalwareutils has been replaced by the standalone mode of the new installer. The new tools are provided by the package fvbeutils.

Frugalware 1.9pre1 (Arcturus) released

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 09:06:16 +0200

This is the first preview release of Frugalware 1.9. It also marks the first public testing for our new live CD environment, FVBE, and our new installer called fwsetup.

This has been in development for 8 months already, and is a compilation of 4 older projects. They are fwlive, setup, fwife, and frugalwareutils. In this new project, they are integrated so they will share a common codebase. This should help avoid the fragmentation like we had with setup and fwife.

Big Announcement

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 07:04:06 +0200

We will be merging with ARCH to form a new distribution called ArchWare. We’ve long had our differences, but it’s time to move forward! Long live ArchWare.

P.S. April Fools

Keyboard Layout changes in current

Sat, 02 Mar 2013 15:59:59 +0100

We have removed the 10-evdev.conf file from the xorg-server package. This means when you upgrade, your XKB keyboard layout will no longer work. This is necessary to transition us closer to what systemd does for this. To fix your system, please refer here.

Frugalware 1.8 (Cinna) released

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:46:29 +0100

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.8, our eightteenth stable release.

No new features have been added since 1.8rc2, but 157 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 1.7 in no particular order:

Updated packages: Linux kernel 3.7.5, XOrg server 1.13.2, GNOME 3.6, KDE 4.9, LibreOffice 3.6.3.2, Mozilla Firefox 18.0.1 to name a few major components.
video decoding acceleration is now enabled in most multimedia applications
cpu scaling should now work out of the box on i686 and x86_64
cpupower is now only needed to modify the default cpu scaling settings
mesa 7.11 drivers revived to support hardware that mesa upstream dropped support for
utf8 is now the default locale encoding for new installs and upgrades

Please refer to the Frugalware Cinna ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware 1.8rc2 (Cinna) released

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 10:23:35 +0100

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.8rc2, the second candidate of the upcoming 1.8 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.8rc1:

Package updates:
- Kernel 3.7.3
New features:
- none

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

Download for x86_64: See our mirror list. Don’t forget to check the integrity of the install images before burning!

NOTE: Click here to read more about what media you need for the installation.

Frugalware 1.8rc1 (Cinna) released

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 01:25:00 +0100

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.8rc1, the first candidate of the upcoming 1.8 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.8pre2:

Package updates:
- Kernel 3.7.1
- Boost 1.50.0
- KDE 4.9.5
New features:
- mesa 7.11 drivers revived to support hardware that mesa upstream dropped support for

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

Download for x86_64: See our mirror list. Don’t forget to check the integrity of the install images before burning!

Happy new Year !

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 05:49:13 +0100

The Frugalware development team would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year !

Frugalware 1.8pre2 (Cinna) released

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 01:17:24 +0100

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.8pre2, the second technical preview of the upcoming 1.8 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.8pre1:

Package updates:
- Kernel 3.6.6
- XOrg Server 1.13.0
- KDE 4.9.3
- GNOME 3.6
New features:
- cpu scaling on i686 and x86_64 now works out of the box for most hardware
- cpupower is now only needed if you want to change the default behavior
- video decoding acceleration libraries have been enabled in most multimedia programs

Note: The ISOs will be a bit late on mirroring. There were some last minute fixes that had to be put in.

kernel 3.6.x ext4 data corruption bug

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:50:38 +0100

It appears that this problem has now been patched in the kernel in current. Thank you for your patience.

xorg merge

Sat, 03 Nov 2012 16:27:34 +0100

Xorg upgrades have been merged to current. There is some manual intervention

required due to strict version depends. You will need to remove some packages

by force before you can complete your next system upgrade. This command should

assist you in this:

pacman-g2 -Rd ffmpeg-compiletime ffmpeg-0.6 ffmpeg-0.6-compiletime

kernel 3.6.2 ext4 data corruption bug

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 17:46:36 +0200

Kernel 3.6.2, which is only in current, has an ext4 data corruption bug.

It was only recently discovered, and was not found by routine testing on

our end. Upstream is working on a resolution, which will be pushed out to

current as soon as they have an official fix that has made it into a new

patch level. The bug is rare, and is reported to manifest only during two

Frugalware 1.8pre1 (Cinna) released

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 02:18:11 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.8pre1, the first technical preview of the upcoming 1.8 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.7:

Package updates:
- Kernel 3.5.4
- GCC 4.7.2
- GRUB 2.00
- systemd 189
- KDE 4.9.1
New features:
- none

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

Download for x86_64: See our mirror list. Don’t forget to check the integrity of the install images before burning!

grub2 2.00 merge

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 17:02:51 +0200

grub2 2.00 has been merged. It requires some manual intervention to complete

the upgrade, but shouldn’t cause any problems if the upgrade is delayed. For detailed instructions on how to upgrade, please read the development upgrade notes. Thank you.

systemd 188 merge

Sat, 01 Sep 2012 02:04:43 +0200

The systemd 188 merge has left a few packages that must be manually removed before

a successful system upgrade can be performed. This command should help you if you

are encountering this problem in current:

pacman-g2 -R systemd-gtk systemd-plymouth dracut-plymouth plymouth plymouth-theme-frugalware plymouth-theme-glow plymouth-theme-solar plymouth-theme-spinfinity

After this command you can upgrade by proceeding as you would normally. Thank you.

Frugalware 1.7 (Gaia) released

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 02:04:43 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.7, our seventeenth stable release.

No new features have been added since 1.7rc2, but 157 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 1.6 in no particular order:

Updated packages: Linux kernel 3.4.8, XOrg server 1.12.3, GNOME 3.4, KDE SC 4.8.4, LibreOffice 3.5.4.2, Mozilla Firefox 14.0.1 to name a few major components.
slocate was removed and replaced by mlocate
catalyst has dropped support for all ATI Radeon HD hardware before the 5000 series
cpupower package has replaced all CPU scaling daemons
all packages that still used sysvinit have been converted to use systemd
grub1 has been replaced by grub2
localtime should now work again

Please refer to the Frugalware Gaia ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware 1.7rc2 (Gaia) released

Sun, 05 Aug 2012 21:29:03 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.7rc2, the second candidate of the upcoming 1.7 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.7rc1:

Package updates:
- Kernel 3.4.6
New features:
- fw32 can now build i686 packages on x86_64. see the README for more information.

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

Download for x86_64: See our mirror list. Don’t forget to check the integrity of the install images before burning!

Frugalware 1.7rc1 (Gaia) released

Mon, 23 Jul 2012 03:54:35 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.7rc1, the first candidate of the upcoming 1.7 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.7pre2:

Package updates:
- Kernel 3.4.4
- GCC 4.7.1
- KDE 4.8.4
New features:
- installer now supports btrfs as an experimental feature
- installer now supports jfs
- grubconfig (our frontend to grub2 installation) can now install to itself to RAID1 mdadm and raw drives with a single option

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

Le Plan Seldon numéro #4

Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:40:18 +0200

Le Plan Seldon Plan est le nouveau magazine des utilisateurs de Frugalware qui remplace l’ancienne newsletter.

Dans ce numéro :
- E17, Window Manager au pays de Bling Bling
- IRC avec Xchat et IRSSI
- Pause musicale libre
- Mots-croisés :)
- Captures d’écrans des utilisateurs

Téléchargement (version francophone PDF)

Frugalware 1.7pre2 (Gaia) released

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 17:42:49 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.7pre2, the second technical preview of the upcoming 1.7 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.7pre1:

Package updates:
- Kernel 3.4.0
- GCC 4.7.0
- GNOME 3.4.2
- KDE 4.8.2
- XFCE 4.10
- Firefox 12, Thunderbird 12, Gimp 2.8
New features:
- LightDM has replaced SLiM as default display manager for XFCE
- New default wallpaper

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

Le Plan Seldon #3

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:40:28 +0200

Le Plan Seldon numéro 3 est là!

Dans ce numéro :
- News
- Gestion d’une action associative avec Frugalware
- Xonotic
- Le secret de FredBezies :)
- Mots-croisés :)
- Et plus encore!

Télécharger (en français, version PDF)

Frugalware 1.7pre1 (Gaia) released

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 06:46:03 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.7pre1, the first technical preview of the upcoming 1.7 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.6:

Package updates:
- Kernel 3.3
- KDE 4.8.1
- LibreOffice 3.5.1
- Firefox 11.0, Thunderbird 11.0, Seamonkey 2.8
New features:
- Kernel modules are now compressed with XZ
- GRUB2 has replaced GRUB1
- Text installer can now install to GPT labels
- pm-radeon for setting radeon KMS power management at startup
- phc package family brings experimental CPU undervolting

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

The Seldon Plan #2

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 02:51:58 +0200

The Seldon Plan issue 2 out now!

In this issue :
- News
- FlightGear 2.6
- 0.A.D Alpha 9
- Crosswords :)
- And more!

Download (english version PDF)

powerpc (ppc) arch powering down

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 18:55:57 +0100

This architecture has been removed and will no longer be supported. We lost our buildserver for it and no longer

possess the means to support it, as no developers are left to care for it as well. So, powerpc is being powered down.

If you possess such hardware, we are sorry, but there is no other choice for us. x86/x86_64 support will continue to be

supported indefinitely, as they are much easier to support. Please join us there if you can.

The Seldon Plan #1

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:48:58 +0100

The Seldon Plan is the fresh new magazine of Frugalware community users replacing the legacy newsletter.

In this issue :
- Frugalware 1.6 Fermus released
- last Minute news
- GNOME 3.4 beta tested
- Crosswords :)
- Desktop screenshots of users

Download (english version PDF)

GRUB2 upgrade in current

Sat, 03 Mar 2012 12:12:28 +0100

The upgrade to GRUB2 has been merged into current recently. This upgrade will not automatically break your system,

because it must be done manually by the user. GRUB1 will no longer be supported from now on, so you should proceed

with the upgrade as instructed here.

systemd in current

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:01:34 +0100

There has been an update to current in regards to systemd. During testing, there was discovered to be some issues with reboots and shutdowns appearing to ‘hang’.

Further inspection revealed that the behavior was caused by display-manager.service refusing to shutdown in a timely manner, by systemd’s definition. The process

still works out in the end, provided you wait long enough for the effected service to be forced to terminate by timeout. This is a public announcement, in the

Frugalware 1.6 (Fermus) released

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:01:34 +0100

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.6, our sixteenth stable release.

No new features have been added since 1.6rc2, but 93 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 1.5 in no particular order:

Updated packages: Linux kernel 3.1.10, XOrg server 1.11.2, GNOME 3.2, KDE SC 4.7, LibreOffice 3.4.5.2, Mozilla Firefox 10.0 to name a few major components.
i686 and x86_64 ISOs are now hybrid. We no longer build separate USB images for these arches.
cpupower can be used to configure your CPU power management, and is now our recommended method for doing so.
UEFI/EFI support has been removed from i686. This is because it is rare on i686.
UUIDs are now used by the installer when generating the /etc/fstab for new installs.
fw32, which maintains an i686 chroot on x86_64, is now more mature and usable. If you find it lacking, make a request.
HAL has been deprecated in favor of udisks
i686 and x86_64 now use an initrd. See installation documentation for instructions on how to properly upgrade this.
Cinnamon desktop is included now.
fwlive is more mature and usable now.

Please refer to the Frugalware Fermus ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware 1.6rc2 (Fermus) released

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:00:57 +0100

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.6rc2, the second technical preview of the upcoming 1.6 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.6rc1:

Package updates:
- Linux kernel 3.1.10
- LibreOffice 3.4.5
- ~100 updated packages
- 27 new packages
New features:
- New cpupower (LWN article) and perf packages
- kmod replaced module-init-tools
Fixes:
- The installer now handles network timeout errors
- Documentation updates

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

Review of 2011

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:07:14 +0100

Before too much of the new year goes past we wanted to take the opportunity to review the achievements of 2011 and look ahead to what’s planned for 2012. It’s an exciting period in Frugalware’s development with the development team making progress in many areas. This article highlights some of the major achievements and planned projects but not all of them. If you are interested in following the progress of any particular project, subscribe to the appropriate mailing list: frugalware-devel if you’re interested in development discussion of all Frugalware projects, and frugalware-git-commits if you want to track individual commits.

Frugalware 1.6rc1 (Fermus) released

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:00:45 +0100

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.6rc1, the second technical preview of the upcoming 1.6 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.6pre2:

Package updates:
- Linux kernel 3.1.8
- Systemd 38
- Firefox 9.0.1
- 383 updated packages
- 121 new packages
- 8 replaced packages
New features:
- After being away for 6 releases, Fwlive is back on the scene!
- Cinnamon Desktop is available as package.

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware Christmas gift

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 08:00:00 +0100

In few hours, it’s Christmas, and guess what ? The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to offer you a gift: the new version of FWLive (Frugalware Live CD/DVD).

FWLive is available in different versions:
- GNOME Desktop Live-CD (fwlive-gnome-*.iso)
- KDE Desktop Live-CD (fwlive-kde-*.iso)
- XFCE Desktop Live-CD (fwlive-xfce-*.iso)
- LXDE Desktop Live-CD (fwlive-lxde-*.iso)
- Educative Edition Live-CD (fwlive-education-*.iso)
- Gamer Live-DVD Edition (fwlive-gamer-*.iso)
To know:
- By default, the keyboard is qwerty
- For now, the only languages available are: en,de,fr,it,hu
- Default user login and password are: fwlive.
- Root’s password is: fwlive
- The Frugalware Graphical Installer is added by default
- The Educative Edition is dedicated for kid’s learning
- The Gamer Edition is a live DVD full of opensource games

NOTE: This version is still beta

Frugalware 1.6pre2 (Fermus) released

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 23:00:00 +0100

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.6pre2, the second technical preview of the upcoming 1.6 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.6pre1:

Package updates:
- Linux kernel 3.1
- XOrg server 1.11.2
- KDE SC 4.7.4
- Firefox 8.0.1
- Chromium 16.0.912.63
- Blender 2.60
- 1.1.0 release of the core EFL component
New features:
- All services used by the default installation now have native systemd units
- Installer images now use isohybrid on x86, separate USB images no longer provided.
- Chrony is now the default NTP client.
- /boot/grub/menu.lst and /etc/fstab now contains UUID’s on new installs

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

Live CD need testers!

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:13:23 +0100

Our live-cd will be back soon since Baste has taken over as maintainer of the project Fwlive. Some ISO images are available here. We are looking for testers. These ISO images are still beta and only in English and French. Please report bugs, feedback and requests to Baste on #frugalware IRC channel or the Bug Tracker System.

New bug tracker system!

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:17:55 +0200

We have a new bug tracker system. Flyspray is obsolete since a while and we have chosen trac. All reports have been imported. If you has an account with the previous bts, you must reset your password as indicated on the main page.

Special thanks from Frugalware developers to Xarkam for his work!

Frugalware 1.6pre1 (Fermus) released

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:24:03 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.6pre1, the first technical preview of the upcoming 1.6 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.5:

Package updates:
- Linux kernel 3.0
- GNU C Library 2.14
- GCC 4.6
- GNOME 3.2
- KDE SC 4.7
- Perl 5.14
New features:
- rsyslog is the new default syslog daemon
- udisks replaced hal in the default installation
- The fw32 package replaced the emul-extra group, bringing seamless integration for e.g. Skype on x86_64.
- kernels are now built with an initrd. be sure to update your boot config to use the initrd at /boot/initrd.img.xz.

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 82

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 05:47:43 +0200

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 Release Party was “up in the air”
Slown is officially a developer
Cedynamix is back!
Tips and Tricks - “Bash shell aliases” and “Tell me when you’re finished”
Focus on Packages - Gource and Duplicity
Frugalware Exam #3 - Answers

You can read it here. We hope you enjoy reading it.

Kernel upgrades and you

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 21:57:25 +0200

If you are upgrading current or to current any time soon, you will need to take special measures. We have switched our stock kernel to using an initrd by default now, but this only effects i686 and x86_64 for now. All other archs are unchanged. If you are running a fairly simple grub setup, you only need to run grubconfig after the complete upgrade. If not, then you need to add this line to your Frugalware menu entry in menu.lst. Here it is:

Important server in the Frugalware infrastructure was compromised

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:57:25 +0200

Dear users,

I’m sorry to report that one of the important servers of the Frugalware infrastructure was compromised on August 25. It took a while to find out the details of how that was possible, read here if you’re interested.

In short: we found that the attacker installed a backdoor similar to the one installed on kernel.org recently. We have already reinstalled the operating system, plus taken steps to prevent a similar attack in the future.

Frugalware 1.5 (Mores) released

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:39:33 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.5, our fifteenth stable release.

No new features have been added since 1.5rc2, but 86 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 1.4 in no particular order:

Updated packages: Linux kernel 2.6.39.3, XOrg server 1.10.3, GNOME 3, KDE SC 4.6.5, XFCE 4.8, LibreOffice 3.4.2, Mozilla Firefox 5.0.1 to name a few major components.
New version of Pacman-g2 bringing some nice features.
systemd is now the default init system.
Initial ARM port.
The boot splash is now provided by plymouth.
i686 and x86_64 kernels can now boot from EFI. (However, the bootloader is not yet installable from setup.)
In addition to EFI support, GPT partition tables are now enabled. gptfdisk is the recommended partitioner for this.
The setuptools Python package is now replaced by distribute.

Please refer to the Frugalware Mores ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 81

Sat, 06 Aug 2011 15:49:23 +0200

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:

Bon voyage, Carl
Welcome back Jercel!
pacman-g2 is now faster
Frugalware Exam

You can read it here. We hope you enjoy reading it.

Frugalware 1.5rc2 (Mores) released

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:15:14 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.5rc2, the second candidate of the upcoming 1.5 stable release. Here are some of the improvements, fixes and updates since 1.5rc1:

Package updates:
- Linux Kernel 2.6.39.3
- XOrg server 1.10.3
- LXDE updated (lxsession-lite-0.4.6,lxpanel-0.5.7,lxlauncher-0.2.2,lxterminal-0.1.10…)
- 1.0.1 release of the core EFL libraries
- Mozilla Firefox 5.0.1
- 245 packages updated
- 20 new packages
New features:
- Our Vim package gained Python support.

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware 1.5rc1 (Mores) released

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:45:42 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.5rc1, the first candidate of the upcoming 1.5 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.5pre2:

Package updates:
- KDE 4.6.5
- Mozilla Firefox 5.0
- LibreOffice 3.4.1
- FFmpeg 0.8
New features:
- The setuptools Python package is now replaced by distribute.
- Our gdb package gained Python support.

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

Pacman-g2 upgrade

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 15:54:05 +0200

Pacman-g2 was upgraded to version 3.8.3 bringing some nice features.

Frugalware current users must do pacman -Sy pacman-g2 before upgrading their system (pacman -Syu). As you can see, the frugalware-current database must be synchronized again after pacman-g2 upgrade.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 80

Sat, 02 Jul 2011 14:13:21 +0200

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 1.5 pre2 - “Mores” released
Baste is officially a developer
Bug in Bug Fixes section of the newsletter :O
Orphaned packages find new “homes”
Tips and Tricks - New features for pacman-g2
Focus on Packages - Minitube and Plank

You can read it here. We hope you enjoy reading it.

Frugalware 1.5pre2 (Mores) released

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:45:21 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.5pre2, the second technical preview of the upcoming 1.5 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.5pre1:

Package updates:
- Linux kernel 2.6.39
- LibreOffice 3.4
- KDE 4.6.4
New features:
- The boot splash is now provided by plymouth.
- i686 and x86_64 kernels can now boot from EFI. (However, the bootloader is not yet installable from setup.)
- In addition to EFI support, GPT partition tables are now enabled. gptfdisk is the recommended partitioner for this.

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 79

Sun, 15 May 2011 14:05:15 +0200

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:

New contributor - Baste;
Frugalware GNOME Shell theme;
Tips and Tricks - skeleton files and system information script;
Users’ Desktop Screenshots - Botchchikii, Springbank and Slown;
Focus on Packages - Quod Libet.

You can read it here. We hope you enjoy reading it.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 78

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:50:57 +0200

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:

GNOME 3 is now available
Mores wallpaper proposal
How do you know the end of the world has come?
Tips and Tricks - “Am I missing something here?”
Focus on Packages - Pogo
Users’ desktop screenshots - Slown, Pingax and FrugalNL

You can read it here. We hope you enjoy reading it.

Frugalware 1.5pre1 (Mores) released

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 06:57:45 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.5pre1, the first technical preview of the upcoming 1.5 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.4:

Package updates:
- Linux kernel 2.6.38
- Gnome 3.0
- KDE 4.6
- Firefox 4.0
- XFCE 4.8 with some bug fix releases (4.8.1), see here the details brought by this version.
- 1.0 release of the core EFL libraries (details)
New features:
- systemd is now the default init system
- Initial ARM port
- XFCE now has lcdfilter for fonts like GNOME
- Full package archive is now available on DVD only, instead we offer a smaller (~200MB-sized) CD for installing a base-only system.

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

GNOME 3 now available!

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 12:54:15 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the availability of the new major version of GNOME Desktop (3.0) into frugalware current repository.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 77

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:35:54 +0100

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:

ARM porting is complete
Centuri0 is officially a developer
Bulgarian translations are in progress
Tips and Tricks
Focus on Packages: minbif and Guake

You can read it here. We hope you enjoy reading it.

The Wiki needs you!

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:57:35 +0100

The Frugalware wiki has been upgraded and now complies with the official design. The wiki needs your contributions, so don’t hesitate to put there your personal HOWTOs, translate the current pages in your language, create new pages (see the TODO link on sidebar)…

The Frugalware user community is counting on you!

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 76

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:37:11 +0100

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 release 1.4 Nexon has arrived!
Frugalware website has had a facelift
You can now add your comments to each newsletter issue
Get fit with Frugalware
Focus on Packages - tig and Shutter

You can read it here. We hope you enjoy reading it.

Systemd now used by default

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:15:05 +0100

systemd is now the default init system. Frugalware current users must do pacman -Sy systemd before upgrading their system.

Haven: End of life

Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:33:57 +0100

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

We have released FSA692 to FSA712 for Haven. That means 21 security problems were fixed in half a year.

Frugalware 1.4 (Nexon) released

Sun, 13 Feb 2011 00:33:09 +0100

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.4, our fourteenth stable release.

The only added feature since 1.4rc2 is LibreOffice (replaces OpenOffice.org), additionally 109 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 1.3 in no particular order:

Updated packages: Linux kernel 2.6.37, Xorg server 1.9, GNOME 2.32, KDE SC 4.5, Drupal 7, Python 2.7 to name a few major components.
Missing koffice localization packages are back (they were missing since the integration of KDE4).
New LCD font rendering available in GNOME. If you use digital video output, this will improve font appearance.
OSSv4 has been added. Feel free to try it out if you have issues with ALSA.
systemd is now available as an alternative of sysvinit (see its wiki page for more info).
netconfig now supports mobile 3g connections though wvdial
Booting from virtio devices is now supported, as long as you use a separate /boot partition. (see here for details)
The GUI installer is now part of the default net/cd/dvd installer images, you don’t have to download a separate image to use it.

Please refer to the Frugalware Nexon ChangeLog for more information.

Parli italiano?

Sat, 12 Feb 2011 06:20:28 +0100

The Frugalware homepage is now available in Italian and can be found here: http://frugalware.org/it.

¿Habla usted español?

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 22:21:27 +0100

The Frugalware homepage is now available in Spanish and can be found here: http://frugalware.org/es. One of Frugalware’s founding principles was that it be accessible to people in their native language and this is one step forward along that path. Many thanks to all who were involved in providing translations and we hope this continues for many years to come.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 75

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 03:56:56 +0100

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 1.4 Release Candidate 2 released
Frugalware tweak! and Frugalware tweak 2! ???
Do-dec-a-he-what!?
Frugalware’s users are people too!
Tips and Tricks - Find your fastest mirror.

You can read it here. We hope you enjoy reading it.

Frugalware 1.4rc2 (Nexon) released

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 08:21:25 +0100

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.4rc2, the second candidate of the upcoming 1.4 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.4rc1:

Package updates:

Linux 2.6.37 + fixes
KDE SC 4.5
Drupal 7 obsoletes Drupal 5. If a drupal-5 package has its own drupal-6 counterpart (eg. drupal-cck), then the drupal-6 one (drupal6-cck) replaces the old one automatically. If a drupal-5 package DOES NOT have its own drupal6 counterpart, then the drupal6 package replaces it - sorry for the inconvenience, those drupal-5 bastards are not even supported by upstream.
systemd v16 - and 5 more packages now support systemd using native unit files

Fixes:

The CD/DVD installer can perform fully offline installation again.
Various user interface fixes (missing icons in desktop files, etc.)
Missing koffice localization packages are back (they were missing since the integration of KDE4).

Please refer to the Frugalware Nexon ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware 1.4rc1 (Nexon) released

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 07:24:00 +0100

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.4rc1, the first candidate of the upcoming 1.4 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.4pre2:

Package updates:

Linux 2.6.36.2
Firefox 3.6.13, Chromium 10.0.616.0
Midnight Commander 4.7.5

New Features:

New LCD font rendering available in GNOME. If you use digital video output, this will improve font appearance.
OSSv4 has been added. Feel free to try it out if you have issues with ALSA.
systemd is now available as an alternative of sysvinit (see its wiki page for more info).

Please refer to the Frugalware Nexon ChangeLog for more information.

Happy New Year!

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 02:52:48 +0100

The Frugalware team would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year.

Building on the achievements of 2009, 2010 was a very successful year. Frugalware featured upgrades to the Linux kernel, GNOME desktop, KDE desktop, X.org and other major packages. Current developers and contributors continued their great work and we welcomed several new developers and contributors. 2011 is almost certain to be an exciting year, so let’s get started!

Merry Christmas

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:14:33 +0100

Merry Christmas to everyone in the Frugalware community. Even if you don’t celebrate Christmas as a Christian festival, it’s a good time to reflect on your achievements and plan for the year ahead. 2010 has been an interesting, exciting and productive year for Frugalware Linux. Events have included many new developers and contributors. Thankyou to everyone who has contributed to our success, including: developers, contributors, translators, artists, bloggers, those who reported bugs and everyone who participated in the mailing lists and forums. In a community like Frugalware’s, everyone’s contribution is vital to our success. Plans for 2011 are still in development, but you can be sure it will be even more busy and exciting than 2010. In the meantime, we wish you the very best of the season and look forward to “seeing” you again next year.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 74

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:09:46 +0100

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 1.4 pre-release 2 is available
systemd is to be the new init system
Xfce 4.8 is on its way
Frugalware’s users are people too! - Melko
Tips and tricks - Colour your ‘man’ output

You can read it here. We hope you enjoy reading it.

Frugalware 1.4pre2 (Nexon) released

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 04:39:45 +0100

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.4pre2, the second technical preview of the upcoming 1.4 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.4pre1:

Package updates:

Linux 2.6.36
Firefox 3.6.12, Chromium 8.0.552.215
Glasgow Haskell Compiler 7.0

New Features:
netconfig now supports mobile 3g connections though wvdial
Booting from virtio devices is now supported, as long as you use a separate /boot partition. (see here for details)

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 73

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:15:26 +0100

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 1.4 pre1 has been released
We need you on the artwork team
WHYANFC! (Woo hoo, yet another new Frugalware contributor!)
“Best of” Tips and tricks"

You can read it here. We hope you enjoy reading it.

Frugalware 1.4pre1 (Nexon) released

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 00:23:24 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.4pre1, the first technical preview of the upcoming 1.4 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.3:

teTeX has been replaced by the TeX Live distribution.
The default Java browser plugin is now provided by OpenJRE instead of the Sun binary.
This release ships with GNOME 2.32.
Python has been upgraded to 2.7.
Nearly 1000 package updates
More than 100 new packages

Please refer to the Frugalware Nexon ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 72

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:10:14 +0200

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:

kikadf is officially a Frugalware developer
Botchchikii submits more FrugalBuilds
Tips and tricks - Adding a custom Frugalware repository to pacman-g2’s configuration
Focus On Package(s) - QTM and cclive

You can read it here. We hope you enjoy reading it.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 71

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:38:56 +0200

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 1.4 code-name ‘Nexon’
Helicon is alive again!
Botchchikii’s first Frugalbuild
Pingax delivers more FrugalBuilds
Tips and tricks - tar and xz

You can read it here. We hope you enjoy reading it.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 70

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:06:37 +0200

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 1.3 released
bouleetbil - is there only one?
New contributor - Xarkam
How to make a feature request
Focus On Package(s) - Talika and etckeeper

You can read it here. We hope you enjoy reading it.

Locris: End of life

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 03:04:15 +0200

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

We have released FSA637 to FSA691 for Getorin. That means 55 security problems were fixed in half a year.

If you update to Haven, it will also fix the following vulnerability:

#4292 - clamav

Frugalware 1.3 (Haven) released

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 02:00:14 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.3, our thirteenth stable release.

No new features have been added since 1.3rc2, but 94 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 1.1 in no particular order:

Updated packages: Linux kernel 2.6.35, Xorg server 1.8, GNOME 2.30, KDE 4.4.5 to name a few major components.
For the first time in the history of Frugalware Linux, we’re offering an official graphical netinstall image, search for the “-gui” suffix on the ftp mirrors.
This time we’ve verified that no workaround is needed to install this release in VMware and because of this, the relevant note is removed from the documentation.
The monolithic configuration of XOrg is now split to the xorg.conf.d directory. You can still use the monolithic config, but the config files in the new directory have priority. XOrg now also uses udev to detect your hardware automatically, /etc/X11/xorg.conf is no longer generated by default.
Updated image libraries: libjpeg 8 and libpng 1.4. While adding support for these new libraries, we touched 1500+ packages, doing various minor fixes and improvements here and there.

Please refer to the Frugalware Haven ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware has a new planet

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 14:32:30 +0200

Frugalware’s planet - the web site which aggregates content from blogs - has moved from planetplanet software to bilboplanet. There were some issues with planetplanet and, after discussion amongst the development team, the change was done by Frugalware developer Devil505.

The rules state that only posts which are likely to be of interest to Frugalware’s users are to be included, so if you subscribe you can enjoy reading about the laughter and tears, hopes and fears, successes and failures which make the community so exciting. Of course if have a blog, please consider adding it to the planet. To do this, go to the planet’s home page and complete the subscription form.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 68

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:20:31 +0200

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:

New Frugalware package contributor
Kernel 2.6.35
Tips and tricks - What’s contained in package X?
Focus on Package(s) - Googsystray and gst123

You can read it here. We hope you enjoy reading it.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 69

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:20:31 +0200

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 release party has been cancelled
Tips and tricks - Be bold and try a new font!
Focus On Package(s) - NetSurf and gbainy

You can read it here. We hope you enjoy reading it.

Frugalware 1.3rc2 (Haven) released

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 03:24:18 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.3rc2, the second candidate of the upcoming 1.3 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.3rc1:

Improvements and fixes:
- The included new Linux 2.6.35 kernel comes with various new drivers and features (summary).
- Fixed the USB installer, the image we shipped in 1.3rc1 was missing a working bootloader on it.
- Fixed the KDE artwork.
- A candidate of the 1.2 to 1.3 upgrade guide is now available.
Package updates:
- Linux 2.6.35
- Mozilla Firefox 3.6.8, Chromium 6.0.472.14 with vp8 support
- Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.1
- 429 package updates
- 46 new packages

Please refer to the Frugalware Haven ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware 1.3rc1 (Haven) released

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:14:06 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.3rc1, the first candidate of the upcoming 1.3 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements and changes since 1.3pre2:

Improvements:
- X.org now uses udev to detect your hardware automatically, /etc/X11/xorg.conf is no longer generated by default.
- Started integrating the Haven artwork.
Package updates:
- Linux 2.6.34.1
- GNOME 2.30.2
- KDE SC 4.4.5
- Mozilla Firefox 3.6.6
- Updated libraries: openssl-1.0.0, libburn-0.8, exiv2-0.20, ffmpeg-0.6.
- 429 package updates
- 46 new packages

Please refer to the Frugalware Haven ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 67

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:26:34 +0200

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:

Default wallpaper for Frugalware 1.3
Frugalware exam #2 - Answers
FLOSS developers are people too - Daniel G Taylor
Tips and tricks - “What are a package’s compile-time options?” Just ask git!

You can read it here. We hope you enjoy reading it.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 66

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:03:56 +0200

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 1.3pre2 released
Frugalware 1.3 release party planning is in progress
Online training - packaging applications for Frugalware
Frugalware exam #2

You can read it here. We hope you enjoy reading it.

Frugalware 1.3 (Haven) default wallpaper voting is open

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:53:56 +0200

Voting is open on Devil505’s blog for the default Frugalware 1.3 (Haven) wallpaper. A total of 22 fantastic submissions were received and it’s now up to you to vote for your favourite. The chosen wallpaper will not only be the default wallpaper but also used as the basis for other themes, including GDM/KDM/SLiM themes. Voting closes at midnight on 17 July 2010 (French local time), so please do vote because it’s a great opportunity to influence the look and feel of Frugalware.

Frugalware 1.3pre2 (Haven) released

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:58:32 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.3pre2, the second technical preview of the upcoming 1.3 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements and changes since 1.3pre1:

Improvements:
- The monolithic configuration of XOrg is now split to the xorg.conf.d directory. You can still use the monolithic config, but the config files in the new directory have priority.
- Updated image libraries: libjpeg 8 and libpng 1.4. While adding support for these new libraries, we touched 1500+ packages, doing various minor fixes and improvements here and there.
Package updates:
- Linux 2.6.34
- KDE SC 4.4.4
- Mozilla Firefox 3.6.4
- OpenOffice.org 3.2.1
- Updated libraries: jack, libpng, libjpeg.

Please refer to the Frugalware Haven ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 65

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 12:51:24 +0200

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:

Hola! ¿Habla usted español?
fwife becomes more beautiful
Tips and tricks - Display package updates with Conky and “Look out! There’s a monster behind you!”
Focus on Package(s) - GNOME Media Player

You can read it here. We hope you enjoy reading it.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 64

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 12:40:28 +0200

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:

Artwork for Frugalware 1.3 progresses
Tips and tricks - pacman-g2’s “upgradedelay” parameter
Focus On Package(s) - cdw and GNOME Log Viewer

You can read it here. We hope you enjoy reading it.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 63

Fri, 21 May 2010 14:01:30 +0200

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 1.3 pre1 released
Package compression is improved
Frugalware’s users are people too - Lenezir
Focus On Package(s) - Textadept

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

Frugalware 1.3pre1 (Haven) released

Mon, 03 May 2010 02:34:38 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.3pre1, the first technical preview of the upcoming 1.3 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements and changes since 1.2:

Improvements:
- For the first time in the history of Frugalware Linux, we’re offering an official graphical netinstall image, search for the “-gui” suffix on the ftp mirrors.
- This time we’ve verified that no workaround is needed to install this release in VMware and because of this, the relevant note is removed from the documentation.
Package updates:
- Linux kernel 2.6.33
- GNOME 2.30
- KDE 4.4.2
- Updated all the E17 packages (version 0.9.9.063)
- More than 1000 package updates
- Exactly 100 new packages

Please refer to the Frugalware Haven ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 62

Sat, 01 May 2010 15:29:45 +0200

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:

WHYAFD! (Woo hoo! Yet another Frugalware developer)
Frugalware French community like PluXml
FLOSS developers are people too - Marc Lentz
How to install many packages in one command

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

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 61

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:00:00 +0200

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:

GNOME 2.30 is available in ‘current’
The battle of the game packagers has begun!
Tips and tricks - Tell me when you’re finished
Frugalware’s users are people too! - Fred Bezies

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

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 60

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:35:47 +0100

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 1.3’s code-name is announced
New FrugalBuild contributors
Forums are back!
Frugalware’s users are people too! - Mickael Brangeon
FLOSS developers are people too! - Mitchell Foral

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

Getorin: End of life

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:25:50 +0100

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

We have released FSA617 to FSA636 for Getorin. That means 20 security problems were issued in half a year.

If you update to Locris, it will also fix the following vulnerability:

#4054 - firefox

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 59

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:06:27 +0100

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:

Jump for Frugalware
Frugalware’s developers are people too - Pingax
FLOSS developers are people too - Marc Kerbiquet
Tips and tricks - Search and replace text in multiple files

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

Frugalware 1.2 (Locris) released

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:51:34 +0100

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.2, our twelfth stable release.

No new features have been added since 1.2rc2, but 62 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 1.1 in no particular order:

Up to date packages: Linux kernel 2.6.32.8, GNU C library 2.11.1, Xorg 7.5, GNOME 2.28, KDE 4.3.5 to name a few major components.
KMS (Kernel Mode-Setting) is now enabled by default for Intel and Radeon cards.
PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is now part of the base system.
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.
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.
This release comes with Xorg 7.5, see the upstream list of new features.
We’ve updated our bluez userspace stack to the 4.x branch, which allowed us to improve both GNOME and KDE bluetooth support.

Please refer to the Frugalware Locris ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 58

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:52:55 +0100

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 here. We hope you like it!

Frugalware 1.2rc2 (Locris) released

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:41:28 +0100

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to 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 upstream list of new features.
- We’ve updated our bluez userspace stack to the 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 Locris ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware 1.2rc1 (Locris) released

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:38:17 +0100

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to 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 Locris ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 57

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:54:40 +0100

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 here. We hope you like it!

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 56

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:15:17 +0100

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

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

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

Frugalware 1.2pre2 (Locris) released

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 01:02:50 +0100

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to 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 Locris ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 55

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:33:52 +0100

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:

The wiki is back!
Happy birthday to Devil505
FLOSS developers are people too
Let’s all go to Monaco
Getting to know you - Dependencies

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

Wiki is back !

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:48:10 +0100

Frugalware Linux official wiki is back online here. We encourage all frugalware users to contribute, please don’t forget to read the FrugalWiki Tutorial. Any comments and suggestions are welcome, ping Devil505 or Bouleetbil on #frugalware.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 54

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:56:10 +0100

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:

New artwork for ‘Locris’
“Who turned out the lights?”
ryuo’s on a mission!
FLOSS developers are people too - Stuart Rackham
Getting To Know You - What is a FrugalBuild?

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

Frugalware 1.2pre1 (Locris) released

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:14:19 +0100

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.2pre1, the first technical preview of the upcoming 1.2 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 1.1:

Improvements:
- KMS (Kernel Mode-Setting) is now enabled by default for Intel and Radeon cards.
- PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is now part of the base system
Package updates:
- Linux kernel 2.6.31 + fixes
- GNOME 2.28
- OpenOffice.org 3.1.1
- Mozilla Firefox 3.5.4
- More than 900 other package updates
- More than 70 new packages

Please refer to the Frugalware Locris ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 53

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:02:20 +0100

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:

What Planet are you on?
Frugalware is beautiful
Patches, patches and more patches from users
Frugalware’s users are people too
NEW! - FLOSS developers are people too

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

KMS enabled by default in -current

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:17:16 +0200

KMS is now enabled by default in Frugalware-current. It’s recommended to read the relevant part of the upgrade documentation before you upgrade to avoid unexpected results.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 52

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:14:45 +0200

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:

Gnome 2.28 is now available
Frugalware’s users are people too - DeX77
Tips and tricks - “Seeing is believing”
Focus On Package(s) - Celestia and UKopp

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

Anacreon: End of life

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:00:43 +0200

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

We have released FSA589 to FSA616 for Solaria. That means 28 security problems were issued in half a year.

If you update to Getorin, it will also fix the following vulnerability:

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 51

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:29:41 +0200

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 1.1 (Getorin) was released
Frugalware 1.1’s release party
Getting To Know You - Vanilla packages
Tips and tricks - RTFM

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

Frugalware 1.1 (Getorin) released

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:37:34 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.1, our eleventh stable release.

No new features have been added since 1.1rc2, but 177 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 1.0 in no particular order:

Up to date packages: Linux kernel 2.6.30.5, GNU C library 2.10.1, Xorg 7.4 with xorg-server 1.6, GNOME 2.26.3, XFCE 4.6.1, GCC 4.4.0 to name a few major components.
Major review in the documentation: numerous grammatical fixes and various extensions.
An x86_64 flash plugin is now part of the default installation.
Etoile is now part of the repository, see this post for more details.
Major update on the graphical installer (fwife), see the changelog here and there.
Packaged android-sdk, for those who want network access from Frugalware through their Android phones.
Just a FYI in case you are using the ext3 filesystem, which is our current default: though we ship the latest stable kernel, we did not switch the default value of the ‘data’ option to ‘writeback’, the feature which still makes ext3 seem more robust than ext4 at the time of writing. See here for more information.
New artwork includes a new wallpaper and a new Gnome theme.

Please refer to the Frugalware Getorin ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 50

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:35:52 +0200

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:

KDE 4.3 is coming to a repository near you!
Frugalware 1.1 will feature new artwork
Frugalware 1.1 release party - update
Focus On Package(s) - Kate

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

Frugalware 1.1rc2 (Getorin) released

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:26:16 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.1rc2, the second candidate of the upcoming 1.1 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 1.1rc1:

Improvements:
- Updated the artwork.
- Packaged android-sdk, for those who want network access from Frugalware through their Android phones.
Package updates:
- PHP 5.3
- Octave 3.2
- More than 250 package updates
- More than 40 new packages

Please refer to the Frugalware Getorin ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware 1.1rc1 (Getorin) released

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:57:08 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.1rc1, the first release of the upcoming 1.1 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 1.1pre2:

Improvements:
- Etoile is now part of the repository, see this post for more details.
- Major update on the graphical installer (fwife), see the changelog here and there.
Package updates:
- Linux kernel 2.6.30.3
- GnuTLS 2.8
- More than 400 package updates
- More than 100 new packages

Please refer to the Frugalware Getorin ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 49

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:54:38 +0200

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:

Elentir released fwife 0.5
Frugalware 1.1 release party plans continue
Frugalware’s developers are people too - Exceed
Focus On Package(s) - ufw and gufw

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

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 48

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:42:38 +0200

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:

New developer - Exceed
Frugalware Linux 1.1pre2 released
We have an GSOC entrant
Getting To Know You - Exam results

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

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 47

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:35:51 +0200

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:

Welcome back Crazy!
Gfpm upgrade
Elentir’s fwife is now more beautiful
Test your Frugalware knowledge
Focus On Package(s) - Fotoxx and Picpuz

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

Frugalware 1.1pre2 (Getorin) released

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:13:25 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.1pre2, the second technical preview of the upcoming 1.1 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 1.1pre1:

Improvements:
- An x86_64 flash plugin is now part of the default installation.
- Just a FYI in case you are using the ext3 filesystem, which is our current default: though we ship the latest stable kernel, we did not switch the default value of the ‘data’ option to ‘writeback’, the feature which still makes ext3 seem more robust than ext4 at the time of writing. See here for more information.
Package updates:
- GNU C library 2.10.1
- Linux kernel 2.6.30
- Xorg 7.4 with xorg-server 1.6
- GNOME 2.26.3
- Xfce 4.6.1
- GCC 4.4.0
- More than 980 package updates
- More than 100 new packages

Please refer to the Frugalware Getorin ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 46

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 05:59:25 +0200

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:

X.org 7.4 and kernel 2.6.30 upgrades
Xfce 4.6.1 is available in current
Priyank’s got a new baby!
Frugalware’s developers are people too - Cedynamix
Getting To Know You - pacman-g2’s “–ask” parameter

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

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 45

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:46:02 +0200

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:

New Frugalware user bars
We have a new developer!
Frugalware’s developers are people too - TranzeManiaC
Tips and tricks - Picture your diff

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

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 44

Sun, 17 May 2009 13:42:15 +0200

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 1.1pre1 was released
Frugalware 1.1 is coming - let’s party!
Frugalware’s artists are people too - leo
Focus On Package(s) - chm2pdf and Open ClipArt Library

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

Frugalware 1.1pre1 (Getorin) released

Tue, 12 May 2009 09:58:44 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.1pre1, the first technical preview of the upcoming 1.1 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 1.0:

Improvements:
- The installer is built with debug support by default for the prereleases to help bugreporters.
- Major review in the documention: numerous grammatical fixes and various extensions.
Package updates:
- Linux kernel 2.6.29.2 + fixes
- GNOME 2.26
- Mono 2.4
- More than 800 other package updates
- More than 70 new packages

Please refer to the Frugalware Getorin ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 43

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:08:43 +0200

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:

Look out! He’s a maniac!
Exceed (AKA Cédric)
Frugalware’s artists are people too - Centuri0
Getting To Know You - newsletter
Focus On Package(s) - Smokin’ Guns

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

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 42

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:12:36 +0200

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:

To infinity…and beyond
Will the real Cedric(k) please stand up?
Frugalware’s developers are people too - VMiklos
Tips and tricks - Unlucky in love?
Focus On Package(s) - lsof

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

Solaria: End of life

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:36:55 +0100

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

We have released FSA526 to FSA588 for Solaria. That means 63 security problems were issued in half a year.

If you update to Anacreon, it will also fix the following vulnerability:

#3179 - nasm

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 41

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:15:05 +0100

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 1.0 is here!
A Frugalware award!
Frugalware’s users are people too - LGee
Getting To Know You - Frugalware is beautiful
Focus On Package(s) - Gigolo and medit

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

Frugalware 1.0 (Anacreon) released

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:09:51 +0100

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.0, our tenth stable release. The version number 1.0 does not indicate anything really special, the new release will bring you as many new features and bugfixes as usual, but it’s still a milestone in the development of the last five years.

No new features have been added since 1.0rc2, but 81 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 0.9 in no particular order:

Frugalware 1.0rc2 (Anacreon) released

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 08:00:59 +0100

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.0rc2, the second (and last) release candidate of the upcoming 1.0 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 1.0rc1:

Improvements:
- Updated the graphical installer (more info here and here).
- Updated the artwork.
Fixes in the setup:
- Fixed the detection of wireless cards (it asked for ESSID for wired interfaces as well).
- Fixed GRUB installation when /boot is on RAID1.
- Handle existing home directories for new users.
Package updates:
- Linux kernel 2.6.28.7 + fixes
- KDE 3.5.10
- PHP 5.2.9
- More than 150 other package updates
- More than 20 new packages

Please refer to the Frugalware Anacreon ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 40

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:22:00 +0100

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 1.0 RC1 released
Anacreon’s default wallpaper is released
Frugalware’s users are people too - fanch
Tips and tricks - Get a widescreen monitor for NO money!

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

Frugalware 1.0rc1 (Anacreon) released

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 11:06:12 +0100

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.0rc1, the first release candidate of the upcoming 1.0 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 1.0pre2:

Improvements:
- Experimental support for the ext4 filesystem.
- Java plugin for x86_64.
- gService: implemented a brand new graphical runlevel editor.
Package updates:
- Linux kernel 2.6.28 + fixes
- Python 3.0
- GNOME 2.24.3
- OpenOffice.org 3.0.1
- Mozilla Firefox 3.0.6
- More than 500 other package updates
- More than 90 new packages

Please refer to the Frugalware Anacreon ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 39

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:44:21 +0100

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:

Microblog me!
New FrugalBuild contributors!
Frugalware’s users are people too - Fafab
Tips and tricks - Firefox extension - Read It Later

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

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 38

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:00:45 +0100

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 1.0 pre2 is released
Elentir’s officially a developer!
Frugalware’s users are people too - juky
Focus On Package(s) - dkopp

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

Frugalware 1.0pre2 (Anacreon) released

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:52:36 +0100

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.0pre2, the second technical preview of the upcoming 1.0 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 1.0pre1:

Improvements:
- Setup: support for having /boot on a RAID1 device, improved support for detecting network card names.
- Serial ports are now owned by the ‘dialout’ (instead of ‘uucp’) group, as a consensus with other distributions.
- For virtualbox users who had to download the whole (~10MB) package again and again after each kernel update - it’s a good news that now the kernel module is a separate package to stop wasting bandwidth and time.
Package updates:
- Mono 2.0.1
- Python 2.6.1
- GNOME 2.24.2
- More than 800 other package updates
- More than 100 new packages

Please refer to the Frugalware Anacreon ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 37

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:33:48 +0100

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:

Happy New Year!
When is a Linux distribution like a cake?
Frugalware 1.0pre2 is almost here
Frugalware’s users are people too - emilpoe
Focus On Package(s) - Frozen Bubble

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

Happy New Year!

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:30:41 +0100

The Frugalware team would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year. 2008 was a year of many major achievements, including new developers, new contributors, a GUI installer (fwife), more translations, and many new packages. We look forward to an equally successful 2009.

Happy New Year!

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 06:53:55 +0100

The Frugalware team would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year. 2009 was a year of many major achievements, including new developers, new contributors, a GUI installer (fwife), more translations, and many new packages. We look forward to an equally successful 2010.

Merry Christmas

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:49:31 +0100

The Frugalware team would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. If you don’t celebrate Christmas, we hope you can enjoy the best of this time of year, while avoiding the worst. :)

Merry Christmas

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:25:00 +0100

The Frugalware team would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. If you don’t celebrate Christmas, we hope you can enjoy the best of this time of year, while avoiding the worst. :)

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 36

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:44:10 +0100

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:

Anacreon’s wallpapers are complete
mxw - the lonely little bot :(
Thanks for 2008
Focus On Package(s) - SLIM
Hints and tips - SciTE, df.

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

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 35

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:20:04 +0100

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 is featured on the Linux Void podcast
Boobaa The Wise :P
Frugalware’s contributors are people too! - Carl Anderson
Tips and tricks - Setting the default editor
Focus On Package(s) - Tidy and Devede

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

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 34

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:23:27 +0100

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 1.0 pre1 (“Anaecron”) released
Czech it out - Frugalware has a new web site
nVidia FX card support becomes a legacy
“Mon ami - you grow more beautiful by the day” - by Devil505
Frugalware’s contributors are people too! - Martin Burda
Focus On Package(s) - Menumaker & Conky

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

Frugalware 1.0pre1 (Anacreon) released

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:22:24 +0100

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.0pre1, the first technical preview of the upcoming 1.0 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.9:

Improvements:
- The first Frugalware Installer Front-End landed in the package repository. Yes, a graphical one! This means currently you can use it to bootstrap a new Frugalware system from an existing one, but we promise we’ll improve in this area. :-)
- Initial ‘ppc’ port. It has been actively tested on Apple boxes: iBook/Power Macintosh models, but IBM hardware is not yet supported (it may or may not work). We also paid special attention to make sure common non-x86 problems, such as playing youtube or Java applets work where possible.
- The support for having a 32-bit chroot on x86_64 is now arrived. The key package is called emul32-tools. If you run this architecture, check out its documentation!
- This release should install and run fine on multiple previously unsupported ASUS Eee PC models, due to the recent installer improvements and the new ath9k driver.
Package updates:
- Linux 2.6.27 + security fixes
- GCC 4.3.2
- GNOME 2.24.1
- OpenOffice.org 3.0
- More than 800 other package updates
- More than 80 new packages

Please refer to the Frugalware Anacreon ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 33

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:55:56 +0200

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:

Gnome 2.24 has arrived at repo near you
Getting To Know You - pacman-g2 and its cache
Tips and tricks - Midnight Commander
Focus On Package(s) - Secret Maryo Chronicles

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

nVidia Package Notice

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:06:50 +0200

If you follow the nVidia news, you probably know that there is a new legacy driver. Basically all the support for the FX cards is dropped in the mainline package and is left in a new legacy package.

The new legacy driver is now available as nvidia-173xx, and the latest nvidia package is also available. So please check your card status and update to the nvidia-173xx package if needed before reporting that X doesn’t start anymore.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 32

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 09:13:54 +0200

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:

Feature Article - Give a somatic look to your Frugalware
Happy birthday to Gimmix
Frugalware joins the art world
Tips and tricks - mutt timezone filter

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

Kalgan: End of life

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:41:33 +0200

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

We have released FSA394 to FSA525 for Kalgan. That means 131 security problems were issued in half a year (we shipped 98 security fixes for Sayshell, the stable release before Kalgan).

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

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 31

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:44:11 +0200

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:

Solaria has arrived
Wallpaper competition - we have a winner!
Recent changes to the newsletter
Getting To Know You - Frugalware’s i18n
Tips and tricks - How to determine the date of the installation of a Frugalware system?
Focus On Package(s) - xmllint

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

Frugalware 0.9 (Solaria) for i686 and x86_64 released

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:53:58 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.9, our ninth stable release.

No new features have been added since 0.9rc2, but about 40 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 0.8:

Up to date base system: Linux kernel 2.6.26, Glibc 2.8 and GCC 4.3.1
Updated desktop packages: GNOME 2.22, OpenOffice.org 2.4.1 and Firefox 3.0.1
Setup: improved support for machines with multiple network cards, the usb installer is now easier to start, fixed/documented installation in virtualbox/vmware.
Improved graphical tools: FUN (update notifier) now supports news notifications.
6400 changes, including 568 new packages, 2279 updated packages and 926 closed tasks.

Please refer to the Frugalware Solaria ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware 0.9rc2 (Solaria) released

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:02:24 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.9rc2, the second release candidate of the upcoming 0.9 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.9rc1:

Improvements:
- The default vi editor is now elvis instead of nvi (as elvis has less dependencies).
- Added crosscompile support to distcc.
- More than 350 small changes.
Package updates:
- Linux kernel 2.6.26 + fixes
- GNOME 2.22.3
- Git 1.6.0
- More than 100 other package updates
New packages:
- Official synaptics touchpad driver from XOrg.
- Utilities for the HFS+ filesystem.
- 8 new drupal modules
- More than 20 other new packages

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 30

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:04:34 +0200

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 0.9 (Solaria) Release Candidate 1 is released
Wallpaper competition is now closed
Tips & tricks - “Where the heck is that file?”
Focus On Package(s) - LinkChecker
NEW - Getting To Know You

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

Frugalware 0.9rc1 (Solaria) released

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:14:50 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.9rc1, the first release candidate of the upcoming 0.9 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.9pre2:

Improvements:
- Removed empty documentation files (README, NEWS, etc.) from /usr/share/doc.
- Fixed installation in virtualbox.
- Replaced firefox-adblock with firefox-adblock_plus.
- The ROX environment is now available on x86_64 as well.
- More than 800 small changes.
Package updates:
- GNU C Library 2.8
- Firefox 3.0.1
- OpenOffice.org 2.4.1
- More than 400 other package updates
New packages:
- dblatex (Produces DVI, PostScript, PDF documents from DocBook sources.)
- wxruby (wxWidgets bindings for ruby.)
- 10 new games
- More than 70 other new packages

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 29

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:28:06 +0200

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 wallpaper announcement
Elentir has begun work on a GUI installer
New donation
Tips and tricks - Envy Code R monospace font
Focus On Package(s) - rxvt-unicode (again) :)

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

Frugalware wallpaper competition

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:28:52 +0200

For the first time in Frugalware’s history, we’re running a wallpaper competition. The aim of this competition is to get an original wallpaper for Frugalware’s 0.9 - “Solaria” - release. The winning entry will be set as the default wallpaper. It will also be the basis for various derivative works - e.g. KDE/GDM/SLiM themes, splash screens.

The successful entrant may be offered the opportunity to produce derivative works from their winning wallpaper. If they decline this offer, a Frugalware developer will produce these works based on the source files provided by the entrant (refer below for this condition).

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 28

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:39:08 +0200

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 0.9 pre2 released
Wine is 1(.0) Happy birthday! :)
Tips and tricks - Which packages are installed?

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

Frugalware 0.9pre2 (Solaria) released

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:37:53 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.9pre2, the second technical preview of the upcoming 0.9 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.9pre1:

Improvements:
- FUN-0.3.0, which now supports News Notification. (Newsletters, releases, etc.)
- Many less popular packages are no longer installed by default, reducing the required size of the default installation.
- Replaced the ipw wireless driver with the newer iwl ones.
- Reworked the ROX environment, binary packages are available again.
- More than 2700 small changes.
Package updates:
- GCC 4.3.1
- Firefox 3.0
- OpenOffice.org 2.4.1
- More than 760 other package updates
New packages:
- icecc - set of configuration tools for IceWM
- libotr and irssi-otr
- 10+ new fortune modules
- 20+ new games
- More than 200 other new packages

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 27

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:56:52 +0200

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 developers are people too! - phayz
Skype plugin for Bitlbee has been upgraded to verson 0.6.0
ryuo’s looking after older PCs
Feature - Help! Frugalware needs YOU!
Focus On Package(s) - Mrxvt

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

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 26

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:51:35 +0200

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 developers are people too! - Devil505
Tips and tricks - Get a better looking “man”
Priyank is back!

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

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 25

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:46:39 +0200

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 developer are people too! - IroniQ
Tips and tricks - man - odd symbols appearing
ryuo is now a developer!
Users fight it out in IRC

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

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 24

Tue, 27 May 2008 14:57:50 +0200

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 0.9 “Solaria” pre1 released
Frugalware’s developers are people too! - krix
Save money with pacman-g2, cron and wget
Focus On Package(s) - rxvt-unicode

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

Frugalware 0.9pre1 (Solaria) released

Tue, 13 May 2008 00:05:24 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.9pre1, the first technical preview of the upcoming 0.9 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.8:

Improvements:
- The network configuration utility now lists card details next to interface names, in case you would now know what is the interface name for your cards.
- The USB installer is now a plain image, you can copy it to your USB stick under any operating system (you needed a running Linux system to install the previous version).
- Changed the CHOST variable to $arch-frugalware-linux from a mix of $arch-pc-linux-gnu / $arch-unknown-linux, which generally causes more consistency and helps reporting bugs for upstream developers.
- Improved security and general user support. We work together with other Linux vendors to provide better security support, and now our forums are mirrored on a mailing list, so more developers can help you.
- More than 150 other minor features / bugs have been implemented / fixed resulting in more than 2400 changes since the last release.
Package updates:
- Linux 2.6.25 + security fixes
- GCC 4.3.0
- GNOME 2.22
- More than 900 other package updates
New packages:
- About 40 new Java library
- Several new Drupal modules
- Many new octave modules.
- More than 150 other new packages

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 23

Fri, 09 May 2008 13:53:54 +0200

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 newsletter issue 21, where are you?
New packagers are making progress
Krix is back!
Frugalware’s developers are people too! - bouleetbil
Tip - How to mount an ISO image

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

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 22

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:08:56 +0200

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:

New Frugalware mirrors
MANY Security fixes
Frugalware’s developers are people too! - Boobaa
Focus On Package(s) - Openbox

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

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 20

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:10:18 +0200

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:

You can call me *MR* Bouleetbil!
Frugalware - A new slogan?
Frugalware’s developers are people too!

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

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 19

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:22:43 +0100

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:

We’re famous! Almost :)
Solaria, here we come!
Bouleetbil’s been busy
Tip - Pacman - what did I just install?

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

Sayshell: End of life

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:46:09 +0100

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

We have released FSA296 to FSA393 for Sayshell. That means 98 security problems were issued in half a year.

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

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 18

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:42:43 +0100

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:

Party time! Kalgan is released.
(Another) memory donation - I’m sure about this one :)
Money, money, money!
Tip - Troubleshooting the launch of GUI applications
(Lots of) security announcements

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

Frugalware 0.8 (Kalgan) for i686 released

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:16:05 +0100

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.8, our eighth stable release.

No new features have been added since 0.8rc2, but more than 300 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 0.7:

Up to date base system: Linux kernel 2.6.24.3, Glibc 2.7 and GCC 4.2.3
Up to date desktop packages: KDE 3.5.9, GNOME 2.20, XFCE 4.4.2, OpenOffice.org 2.4rc2 (ooo-build 2.4.0) and Firefox 2.0.0.12
Setup: WPA support, new supported language: Czech.
New graphical tool: FUN (update notifier).
4068 changes, including 251 new packages, 1729 updated packages and 416 closed tasks.

Please refer to the Frugalware Kalgan ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 17

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 13:42:43 +0100

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:

Kalgan is nearly here!
Memory donation - if I recall correctly :)
Frugalware’s developers are people too!
Tip - Free some space on your hard drive

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

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 16

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:30:13 +0100

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:

Kalgan - “be still my beating heart”
Tip - Redirect your terminal’s output
Geany - Want a simple but powerful GUI text editor? Your wish is granted!

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

Frugalware 0.8rc2 (Kalgan) released

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:23:04 +0100

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.8rc2, the second (and last) release candidate of the upcoming 0.8 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.8rc1:

Bugfixes:
- Installer optimizations: a general install should be now about 30% faster.
- Improved documentation: added details about our mailing lists.
- Minor bugfixes to help the upgrade from 0.7.
Package updates:
- Linux 2.6.24 + security fixes
- Perl 5.10.0
- GCC 4.2.3
- More than 150 other package updates
New packages:
- iwlwifi-4965 and iwlwifi-3945 firmware packages
- several new drupal modules
- alpine, a replacement for pine
- More than 25 other new packages

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 15

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 16:30:13 +0100

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:

Kalgan - we’re getting closer :)
You want security fixes? We’ve got ’em!
Tip - X video problem on boot? - Don’t panic! (yet)
Stellarium - gazing at the stars from your PC

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

Frugalware 0.8rc1 (Kalgan) released

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:19:47 +0100

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of 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.
Package updates:
- 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

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 14

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:30:13 +0100

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!

X.Org 7.3 testers wanted!

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:47:41 +0100

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!

Frugalware 0.8pre2 (Kalgan) released

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:28:00 +0100

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.8pre2, the second technical preview of the upcoming 0.8 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.8pre1:

New features:
- Support for executing hooks inside the package manager - e.g. after a successful system upgrade.
- Improved blacklisting support for kernel modules.
Package updates:
- 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

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 13

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:37:54 +0100

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

In this issue:

Package updates
Hint - Changing rights of files and libraries
Happy New Year

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

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 12

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 14:53:45 +0100

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!

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 11

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 22:51:50 +0100

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

In this issue we welcome a new release of Frugalware, put the ‘Windows’ key to good use in Gnome, reveal a bug in previous newsletters and more.

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

Frugalware 0.8pre1 (Kalgan) released

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:33:56 +0100

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.8pre1, the first technical preview of the upcoming 0.8 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.7:

Package updates:
- Linux 2.6.23 + fixes
- GNU C Library 2.7
- GCC 4.2.2
- espgs is now replaced with the stock ghostscript
- compiz-fusion replaced beryl, most users now can avoid XGL
- more than 600 other upstream updates
- more than 100 new packages, including 20 new games
New features:
- Added FUN (Frugalware Update Notifier), which resides in the user’s system tray and notifies if an update is available.
- Added WPA support to the installer.

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 10

Sat, 24 Nov 2007 17:54:01 +0100

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

Terminus: End of life

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:59:34 +0200

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:

Frugalware 0.7 (Sayshell) for i686 and x86_64 released

Sat, 13 Oct 2007 02:58:26 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.7, our seventh stable release.

No new features have been added since 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.

Please refer to the Frugalware Sayshell ChangeLog for more information.

Kernel update in -current: WARNING for Intel users with IDE controllers

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:08:53 +0200

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:

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.
Edit /etc/fstab: change all occurrences of /dev/hd to /dev/sd.
Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst: change all occurrences of /dev/hd to /dev/sd in the Frugalware entry.
Reboot.

Thanks for your understanding!

Frugalware 0.7rc2 (Sayshell) released

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:08:42 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.7rc2, the last candidate of the upcoming 0.7 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.7rc1:

Package updates:
- GNOME 2.20.0
- OpenOffice.org 2.3 with OOXML support and Mozilla plugin
- More than 1000 changes, mostly bugfixes
New features:
- 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

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware 0.7rc1 (Sayshell) released

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 02:40:14 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.7rc1, the first candidate of the upcoming 0.7 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.7pre2:

Package updates:
- GNU C Library 2.6.1
- Replaced util-linux with util-linux-ng
- More than 30 new packages
- Added detailed documentation for the util-linux-ng, amavisd-new and ejabberd packages
- More than 900 changes: package updates, bug- and security fixes.
New features:
- Added permalinks to the documentation
- Rewritten the package builder daemon, which now supports distributed operation. This results in continuous package updates even if one package builder server is not available.
Setup:
- new Danish translation

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware 0.7pre2 (Sayshell) released

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:25:25 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.7pre2, the second technical preview of the upcoming 0.7 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.7pre1:

New features:
- New graphical configuration tool, Gnetconfig to tweak your network settings.
- Setup now puts the installer log to the target system, so that the log is not lost.
- The default timezone and keyboard layout is now language-dependent.
- New Italian translation in the installer.
Package updates:
- Linux kernel 2.6.22 (+ fixes)
- GCC-4.2.1, with several bugfixes and a usable java browser plug-in for systems where the binary is not available, like x86_64.
- OpenOffice.org 2.2.1
New packages:
- VIM spell-check dictionaries for various languages
- More than 100 new packages: qmpdclient, gpsdrive, emovix, gpodder, horde-webmail and many more!
Homepage:
- It is now possible to browse HTML documentation for a package on the homepage.
- Replaced darcsweb with gitweb in accordance with the darcs to git change.
A list of bugs reported after the release of the installer images can be viewed here.

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 9

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:06:29 +0200

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

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 8

Sun, 01 Jul 2007 13:28:27 +0200

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

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 7

Sun, 17 Jun 2007 13:17:25 +0200

The seventh issue of our fortnightly newsletter has been released! You can read it here. We hope you like it! If you would like to vote on which design you would like to see on the next version of our homepage, read this issue!

Happy 3rd birthday, Frugalware!

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:14:49 +0200


$ lynx -dump http://ftp.frugalware.org/pub/archive/frugalware-0.1/ChangeLog.txt|tail -n 7
Wed **Jun 16** 14:42:01 2004 +0200, by VMiklos
- Changelog: initial release
...

$ date
Sat **Jun 16** 13:14:49 2007 +0200

Cheer, dance, party!

Frugalware 0.6a (Terminus) for x86_64 released

Sun, 03 Jun 2007 07:54:12 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.6a for x86_64. This is a bug fix release to fix various issues that users have encountered with the x86_64 0.6 releases. These new ISOs contain all security fixes since the release of 0.6.

Please note that if you want to use i686, you should still use the original 0.6 ISOs. This release is for x86_64 only.

Please refer to the Frugalware ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 6

Sat, 02 Jun 2007 09:45:13 +0200

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

Yugo: new i686 buildserver

Sat, 26 May 2007 07:56:26 +0200

I’m pleased to announce our new i686 buildserver, called yugo.
The server is working well, you can see the syncpkgd results here.
I’d like to thank everyone who offered to donate!

Frugalware 0.6 and 0.7pre1 torrents

Thu, 24 May 2007 23:14:08 +0200

Trackerless torrents for Frugalware’s ISO can be found here.

Frugalware 0.7pre1 (Sayshell) released

Thu, 24 May 2007 07:14:08 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.7pre1, the first technical preview release of the upcoming 0.7 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.6:

Improvements:
- The package manager (pacman-g2) now supports checking the integrity of your database.
- A LiveCD called FwLive is now available for this prerelease.
- A new web interface has been added to help translating Frugalware. See the documentation for more information.
- Support for XOrg 6.x has been dropped.
Setup:
- New Romanian and Swedish translations.
- The keyboard layouts are now sorted.
Package updates:
- Linux kernel 2.6.21
- GCC 4.2.0
- GNU C Library 2.6
- Pidgin replaced Gaim, the external plugin packages have been updated accordingly.
- A new XULRunner package has been added and all GNOME apps that have depended upon Firefox for HTML rendering have been rebuilt against XULRunner.
- OpenOffice.org 2.2 + updated localizations + updated dictionaries
- More than 100 new packages

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 5

Mon, 14 May 2007 18:37:15 +0200

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

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 4

Tue, 01 May 2007 20:08:24 +0200

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

Request: IDE HDDs

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:35:18 +0200

Unfortunately we lost our i686 buildserver. But we have changed our main server to a stronger one, so now we have a quiet good machine. Without any hard disks. So we’d like to ask our users to donate us. Till the i686 buildserver is not working, the current repo is not in sync with the x86_64 one.

The needed HDDs:

at least one smaller (20-40GB) IDE HDD for system
at least one bigger (min. 80-100GB) IDE HDD for build environment

If you have anything to donate, please send a mail to VMiklos (vmiklos at frugalware dot org) or IroNiQ (iron at frugalware dot org) or search for them on Freenode Network at #frugalware channel.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 3 and Homepage design contest!

Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:43:31 +0200

The third issue of our fortnightly newsletter has been released! You can read it here. In this issue we have announced a contest to create a design for the next version of the Frugalware homepage.

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 2

Sat, 31 Mar 2007 22:12:35 +0200

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

Frugalware 0.6 (Terminus) for i686 and x86_64 released

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 07:04:52 +0100

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.6, our sixth stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.6rc2:

Linux 2.6.20.3
We are proud to be one of the first distributions to ship the stable GNOME 2.18
Fixed a few bugs in XDM

If you didn’t follow the changes during the pre/rc releases, here are the most important changes since 0.5:

Up to date base system: Glibc 2.5, Binutils 2.17.50.0.6 with DT_GNU_HASH support, DBUS 1.0 and Python 2.5
Up to date desktop packages: KDE 3.5.6, XFCE 4.4, Beryl 0.2.0, OpenOffice 2.1, Firefox 2.0.0.2 and GNOME 2.18
All installed-by-default packages using Java are now built using gcj/ecj, the original binary javac is only provided as an alternate compiler.
Setup: speed improvements, support for more custom action, tftp installs and usb sticks are now supported.
Full support for Xgl/Beryl in KDE
Documentation: it is more than two times longer than it was until now.

Known Issues:

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 1

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 07:58:20 +0100

The Frugalware Newsletter is a new fortnightly (Hopefully… ;-)) newsletter which aims to keep users up to date about what’s been going on in Frugalware development.

The first issue can be found here. We hope you like it!

Frugalware 0.6rc2 (Terminus) released

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 07:57:25 +0100

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.6rc2, the second release candidate of the upcoming 0.6 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.6rc1:

Improvements:
- Updated the documentation: obsolete parts are removed, new parts are written, it is more than two times longer than it was till now.
- Finished the artwork update, it is now homogenous again.
- Updated the translations of the installer
Package updates:
- GCC 4.1.2 with changes to correct regressions from previous releases
- GNOME 2.18.0 RC1 with cool features, important bug fixes, great translations
- More than 30 new packages: asciidoc, bzflag, rtl8110, new beryl plugins and much more!

WARNING: It has been discovered that the GConf version included in 0.6rc2 is broken and therefore GNOME will not work on a default install. To get around this, you should not install the gnome group when installing, and install it from frugalware-current afterwards, making sure that the gconf version to install is 2.18.0.1. Sorry for the inconvenience

Frugalware 0.6rc1 (Terminus) released

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 07:22:24 +0100

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.6rc1, the first release candidate of the upcoming 0.6 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.6pre2:

Improvements:
- Brand new GDM theme, which has many improvements over previous themes.
- Many packages recompiled to take advantage of new features in Glibc 2.5 and GCC 4.1.
Package updates:
- GNOME 2.17.90 with several bug fixes and speed enhancements
- XFCE 4.4 with many new features and numerous bug fixes
- Beryl 0.1.99.2 with many usablity, speed and reliability improvements
- Added a package for VirtualBox, a free opensource virtualization program
- Kernel 2.6.20 with KVM virtualization support and many speed enhancements
- KDE 3.5.6
- Wine 0.9.29 bringing stability improvements
- 45 new packages: mythtv, kvm, xfburn, cdrkit and much more!

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware 0.6pre2 (Terminus) released

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:05:38 +0100

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.6pre2, the second technical preview release of the upcoming 0.6 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.6pre1:

New features in the installer:
- Much improved error handling. A dialog box will be displayed in the unlikely event of a segmentation fault and the installer will exit, instead of just restarting from the beginning.
- Use library calls to download the package database, which gives better error handling. If the database update fails, you will be told about it, instead of being given an empty category list.
- There is now an option to go back to a previous step in the installer (where it makes sense).
- CD/DVD installation is now faster: integrity and conflict checks are done before creating the installation images.
- There is floppy image available now for tftp installs.
Improvements:
- Added KDE support to fw-xgl-control and Beryl.
- Gnome-mount, a replacement for pmount in GNOME resulting in more reliable and flexible automounting in GNOME.
Updates:
- Linux Kernel 2.6.19
- Added virt-manager and gnome-applet-vm packages as GUI tools for Xen
- GNOME 2.17.3, with new features and bug fixes
- Xfce 4.4 Release Candidate 2, with a lot of bug fixes
- Beryl 0.1.3 with lots of new eye-candy effects
- dhcpcd 3.0, resulting in more reliable network autoconfiguration
- Curl 7.16.0
- DBUS 1.0 with several improvements and fixes
- HAL 0.5.8.1 with new features and bug fixes

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

Big Fat Warning: postgresql package upgrade

Sat, 06 Jan 2007 17:27:05 +0100

Before upgrading to 8.2 version of postgresql, dump your databases. The new version is incompatible with the older one.

Big Fat Warning: nVidia package upgrade

Tue, 26 Dec 2006 19:26:13 +0100

If you are using current and you have a GeForce 4 graphics card (this is a lot of laptops), please do not do a system upgrade until the nvidia-96xx package is available tomorrow. Once it is available, install it. The latest version of nvidia removes support for GeForce 4 cards.

As a side note, the Frugalware developer team would like to wish all our users a very Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!

Frugalware 0.6pre1 (Terminus) released

Thu, 09 Nov 2006 01:02:04 +0100

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.6pre1, the first technical preview release of the upcoming 0.6 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.5:

New features:
- All installed-by-default packages are now built using gcj/ecj, javac is only provided as an alternate compiler.
- Installing from a USB stick is now supported.
- Added PHP documentation for 23 languages.
Updates:
- Linux 2.6.18 with a much improved SATA layer and a few new drivers
- GNU C Library 2.5 with support for the new ELF hash table format
- Mozilla Firefox 2.0 with improved tabbed browsing and inline spell checking
- Xfce 4.4rc1: This fixes all plugin crash problems with the old Xfce 4.2.x and the new version is much more stable.
- KDE 3.5.5 with KHTML improvements, and support for sudo in kdesu
- OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 with a latex export filter and encryption support in the pdf export filter
- D-Bus 0.93 with many memleaks and bugs fixed
- neon 0.26.1 with internationalization support
- Xen 3.0.3 with HVM and XenFB support; Xen kernels upgraded to 2.6.18
- db 4.5.20 with Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC) support
- Python 2.5 with an interesting mix of language and library improvements
- GNOME 2.17.1 with various bugfixes and new features
- Binutils 2.17.50.0.6 - this allows us to use the new ELF hash table format which is now enabled by default in our build system. This will cause a considerable performance increase in newly built packages.

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

Yet another homepage redesign!

Tue, 24 Oct 2006 20:37:14 +0200

I’m one of the fussy web-designers. I create a design, a few months later I think it’s rubbish. So I created a new design :) Feel free to drop your comments to the Frugalware-devel list.

In other news, ftp5 should be back in sync. Have a good day! ;)

ftp5.frugalware.org is currently out of sync

Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:41:12 +0200

ftp5.frugalware.org is currently out of sync for -current users. Please temporarily switch to a different mirror in /etc/pacman.d/frugalware-current!

We want your DBUS bug reports!

Sat, 30 Sep 2006 12:01:44 +0200

If you find any apps that don’t start with a message about libdbus-1.so.2 not found, we want to know about it now! Just submit a report with the package’s name to the Bug Tracker. Thanks!

Please, don't file bug reports about DBUS in current (yet!)

Sun, 24 Sep 2006 17:02:53 +0200

We’ve upgraded to DBUS 0.9x in -current, meaning that some apps will be broken. We currently don’t want any reports on any broken apps so that we don’t get flooded by bug reports! We have a very big list of things that need rebuilding, so we’ll probably cover most apps over this week. We’ll post a note when we want your bug reports again!

Thanks!

Frugalware 0.5 (Siwenna) for i686 and x86_64 released

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 00:08:25 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.5, our fifth stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.5rc2:

Linux 2.6.17.11
We are proud to be one of the first distributions that ship the stable GNOME 2.16
20 new packages

If you didn’t follow the changes during the pre/rc releases, here are the most important changes since 0.4:

Up-to-date packages: GNU C Library 2.4, GCC 4.1.1, KDE 3.5.4, XOrg 7.1, OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 (a native version for x86_64 users, too)
Security support: as of Frugalware-0.5, security support is provided until the release of the stable Frugalware-0.6. The -stable updates are only security fixes and bugfixes, no new features are added.
Created a new tool called ‘setup’ to collect the available configuration tools.
Localized the package manager (French, German and Hungarian translations are available)
Switched from bootsplash to splashy, so that the splash can be used with any custom vanilla kernel, too.
Installer improvements: Added wireless support, support for detecting other distributions and other operating systems, utf8-specific updates, all packages are available on CDs.
fw-xgl-control: Easily enables/disables Xgl on your system with one simple command.
fwmirror: A new tool to help mirroring Frugalware.

Please refer to the Frugalware 0.5 ChangeLog for more information.

Upgrade to the new type of nvidia package

Sat, 09 Sep 2006 00:35:47 +0200

It was a trouble for several users to upgrade the old nvidia package (locally-compiled at install) to the new, binary one. Here is the solution (provided that the database and the other packages are up-to-date):

pacman -Sfd nvidia --noconfirm

(No, it does not mean that we dislike the Software Freedom Day…)

Frugalware 0.5rc2 (Siwenna) released

Fri, 01 Sep 2006 11:26:39 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.5rc2, the second release candidate of the upcoming 0.5 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.5rc1:

Updated GNOME to 2.16 Release Candidate (2.15.92)
~300 bugfixes
Updated KDE and GRUB artwork
More than 30 new packages: ntfs-3g, avifile, gnome-sharp and much more!

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

Download for i686:

NOTE: Don’t download CDs 3-9 or the second DVD unless you don’t have an internet connection

Frugalware 0.5rc1 (Siwenna) released

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 01:31:02 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.5rc1, the fist release candidate of the upcoming 0.5 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.5pre2:

Updates:
- Linux 2.6.17.8
- KDE 3.5.4
- Firefox 1.5.0.6
- Thunderbird 1.5.0.5
- Gnome 2.16 Beta 2 (2.15.91)
New features:
- Splitted the MySQL, PostgreSQL, Samba and LDAP packages so that having these servers installed is no longer forced on a desktop machine
- fwmirror: A new tool to help mirroring Frugalware
- fw-xgl-control: Easily enables/disables Xgl on your system with one simple command
- Homepage: improved the binary packages page - now you can browse by categories and view reverse dependencies
- Added a workaround for nVidia cards in Xorg 7.1
- New 0.5 artwork (except KDE)
Bugfixes:
- Fixed handling of the dependencies of the language packs
- Fixed netinstall when using PPPoE connection
- Burning the first DVD iso no longer requires any overburn options

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware 0.5pre2 (Siwenna) released

Mon, 31 Jul 2006 01:17:32 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.5pre2, the second technical preview of the upcoming 0.5 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.5pre1:

Updates:
- Linux 2.6.17 (+ security patches)
- GCC 4.1.1
- Apache 2.2.3
- XOrg 7.1 (updated the fglrx driver accordingly, nVIDIA still doesn’t work)
- GNOME 2.16 Beta 1 (there may be some problems with some Gnome and GTK software - see earlier news posts)
- OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 (this time a native version is available for x86_64 users, too)
New features:

Gnome upgrade done (for now)

Sat, 22 Jul 2006 09:09:41 +0200

All the GNOME packages have been updated to 2.15, so now would be the time to starting posting reports about any problems that you find. To do this, you can use our Bug Tracker. There are currently several known issues that we will try to fix soon. These are as follows

Gaim gets SIGABRT when trying to add an account.
Banshee Segmentation Faults at startup
File-roller segmentation faults at startup

Gnome and GTK breakage in -current

Sat, 08 Jul 2006 17:03:46 +0200

Yes, we know Gnome and GTK stuff is a bit broken in -current :)

This is because we have upgraded to GTK 2.10, and also we are upgrading Gnome to the development version (see the mailing list archive for reasons why). So please bear with us while we do this. The result at the end of this should be a faster and nicer Gnome. I will post here once we have finished upgrading, at which point it will be good to start posting bug reports about problems that you find.

Improvements on the homepage

Fri, 07 Jul 2006 21:11:32 +0200

Amazingly, in the time since our homepage upgrade, we’ve only had 1 bug report to do with the packages section. So now we can work on adding a few improvements. I’ve just written a kind of robot that automatically posts all news posts from the site to the Frugalware-announce mailing list. It works thanks to darcs post-hooks, so that whenever we push a change to the homepage darcs repository, the post-hook is run to check for new news posts. Don’t forget, if you do find a bug remember to post it on our Bug Tracker.

New Frugalware homepage!

Tue, 20 Jun 2006 07:59:25 +0200

Welcome to the brand new Frugalware homepage! This is a complete rewrite of our homepage, featuring table-less design, XML for data storage, user-friendly URLs with mod_rewrite and easy translations with Gettext. If you would like to help translate the page, please post to the frugalware-devel mailing list. If you find any bugs while using the page, please report them to the Bug Tracker under the Homepage category, or visit our IRC channel and report them to AlexExtreme or IroNiQ. Also, feel free to give them your comments on the page too.

ATI and nVidia binary drivers broken in current

Sat, 27 May 2006 20:53:09 +0200

For those of you that use the current branch of Frugalware, nVidia and ATI binary drivers are currently broken due to the upgrade to Xorg 7.1. Specifically, fonts do not display at all on screen. There are 2 solutions to this problem - either downgrade all Xorg packages, or switch to using the open source Xorg drivers for your card in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. (ati and nv). Note that Frugalware 0.5pre1 is not affected unless you have run pacman -Syu since installation.

Frugalware 0.5pre1 (Siwenna) for i686 released

Thu, 25 May 2006 01:18:52 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.5pre1, the first technical preview of the upcoming 0.5 stable release for the i686 architecture.

A short and incomplete list of the more than 3000 changes since 0.4:

Updates:
- GNU C Library 2.4
- GCC 4.1.0
- KDE 3.5.2
- More than 300 new packages
New features:
- Created a new tool, called ‘setup’, to summarize the available configuration tools. (screenshot)
- Localized the package manager. (currently German and Hungarian language support available)
- Added Brazilian and Indonesian translation to the setup.
Known problems:

Frugalware 0.4 for i686 and x86_64 released

Thu, 30 Mar 2006 07:42:21 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.4 for the i686 and x86_64 architectures, our fourth stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.4rc2-i686:

Updates:
- Update to Linux 2.6.16
- Update to GNOME 2.14
- Update to OpenOffice.org 2.0.2.1
- Lots of minor bugfixes
- Create a howto about upgrading from the previous stable release
A few statistics since 0.3:
- 4186 changes
- 732 new packages
- 302 fixed bugs
For who haven’t followed the changes in the pre/rc releases, the most important changes:

Frugalware 0.4rc2-i686 released

Thu, 16 Mar 2006 00:08:01 +0100

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.4rc2-i686, the last release candidate of the 0.4-i686 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.4rc1-i686:

New features:
- Better support for changing between opensource and proprietary ATI/NVIDIA drivers.
- All packages have been reviewed to work perfectly with X.Org 7.0.
- Various spelling fixes in the configuration tools.
- Fixed font settings for non-English users.
- Reworked the mirror mechanism to ensure that the iso images are available on all mirrors at release time.
- More than 60 new packages: freenx packages + knx (tutorial), lighttpd, sword, thunderbird-locale-switcher, katapult and much more!
Updates: As usual, Frugalware comes with the latest version of upstream stable releases, including:

Frugalware 0.4rc1-i686 released

Thu, 02 Mar 2006 00:26:59 +0100

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.4rc1-i686, the first release candidate of 0.4-i686.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.4pre2-i686:

New features:
- Created a package synchronization client and daemon (syncpkg and syncpkgd) to update packages faster on arches other than i686 (x86_64 and later ppc).
- Implemented fwcpan, a new tool to install any cpan module, just like it would when you install it with the pacman.
- Split OpenOffice, now all language packs and dictionaries can be installed/removed separately.
- More than 80 new packages: Xgl (with a step by step howto), beagle, fvwm-crystal, cdcat, klamav, kcheckgmail, xvidcap, synaptics, rt2500, rdiff-backup and much more!
Updates: As usual, Frugalware comes with the latest version of upstream stable releases, including:

Frugalware 0.4pre2-i686 released

Thu, 02 Feb 2006 00:29:05 +0100

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.4pre2-i686, the second technical preview release of 0.4-i686.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.4pre1-i686:

New features:
- Libificated pacman to meet our needs, and the newborn pacman 3 has become the default package manager.
- Network configuration has been redesigned, now we support various network profiles, and much more network parameters (hardware address, multiple ip addresses on a single interface, etc) than before.
- Created a new, more verbose documentation.
- Switched to udev as the default hotplug multiplexer.
- Bugfix: now automounting for usb sticks works fine, not only for CDs or DVDs.
- More than 100 new packages - on client side: wepdecrypt, konversation, ltp, gtkpod, firefox extensions, etc.
- New server side packages: xen (with dom0 and domU kernels), darcsweb, rails, perl modules and much more!
Behind the scenes:

Frugalware 0.4pre1-i686 released

Wed, 07 Dec 2005 20:23:55 +0100

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.4pre1-i686, the first technical preview release of 0.4-i686.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.3-i686:

New features:
- Rewritten setup from scratch in C. The new framework will allow to implement a graphical installer, too.
- Added lots of new features to the setup, such as expert and normal mode, ignoring (non fatal) errors.
- Added several translations to the setup.
- The init script system was redesigned: more user-friendly error messages, now uses gettext for translations.
- More than 100 new packages: treewm, octave, toolame, mingw, ddd, tellico and much more!
Updates: As usual, Frugalware comes with the latest version of upstream stable releases, including:

Frugalware 0.3-x86_64 released

Wed, 19 Oct 2005 19:06:30 +0200

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the x86_64 port of Frugalware 0.3.

Frugalware 0.3-x86_64 is now a full-featured port of Frugalware, with almost all of the packages that are available on i686.

What does not work currently?

OpenOffice.org
Official flash plugin (from Macromedia)
Dosemu

If you can, please test it. If you find a bug, report to us. Please include as many details as possible in the bugreport! Thank you.

Frugalware 0.3-i686 released

Thu, 13 Oct 2005 01:09:20 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.3-i686, our third stable release.

A short list of most important improvements and news since 0.3rc2-i686:* Improvements:

+ Setup: added spannish translation.
+ GNOME updated to 2.12.1

Updates: As usual, Frugalware comes with the latest version of upstream stable releases, including:
- Linux kernel 2.6.13.3
- GCC 4.0.2
- Thunderbird 1.0.7

Please refer to the Frugalware ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware 0.3rc2-i686 released

Mon, 03 Oct 2005 22:17:09 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.3rc2-i686, the second release candidate of the upcoming 0.3-i686 stable release.

A short list of most important improvements and news since 0.3rc1-i686:* Improvements:

+ Setup: added PPPoE support, added Polish translation, now the whole installation process' log saved to the installed system.
+ New wireless packages: madwifi, wlan-ng, etc.

Package highlights: More than 60 new packages: gprsec, squid, privoxy, tor, weechat and more!

Frugalware 0.3rc1-i686 released

Thu, 15 Sep 2005 22:15:47 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.3rc1-i686, the first release candidate of the upcoming 0.3-i686 stable release.

A short list of most important improvements and news since 0.3pre2-i686:* Improvements:

+ Setup: added XFS support, and now you can configure the source of packages (install from a custom mirror or HDD)
+ Added mbrola and hunspell language packs.
+ New stats-generator packages: webalizer, munin, etc.
+ Added several adesklet applet package.

Package highlights: More than 120 new packages: kdebluetooth, kismet, lives, fuse, muttng amavisd-new and more!

Frugalware 0.3pre2-i686 released

Thu, 18 Aug 2005 07:13:14 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.3pre2-i686, the second preview of the upcoming 0.3-i686 stable release.

A short list of most important improvements and news since 0.3pre1-i686:* Improvements:

+ Ivman replaced submount, which is no longer installed by default.
+ Setup: Now Frugalware can be installed to a software RAID partition.
+ Added French language support to the installer.

Package highlights: More than 180 new packages: abiword, nvu, ndiswrapper, kaffeine, chkrootkit and more!

Frugalware 0.3pre1-x86_64 released

Sun, 03 Jul 2005 19:46:19 +0200

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the x86_64 port of Frugalware 0.3pre1.

Frugalware 0.3pre1-x86_64 is a native 64-bit system, which means we don’t use multilib. (For example because of this, you have to use our gplflash package instead of the usual flashplugin.)

What works?

base system :-)
the graphical system’s core
desktop environments: KDE, Xfce and GNOME

What does not work currently?

OpenOffice.org (we are working on it and we have promising results)
I18n: Firefox, Thunderbird, KOffice

If you can, please test it. If you find a bug, report to us. Please include as many details as possible in the bugreport! Thank you.

0.3pre1 in the news

Wed, 29 Jun 2005 09:57:27 +0200

There’s a new review about Frugalware over at tuxmachines. Also you can find there 65 screenshots, too.

3 more articles in online IT newspages

Thu, 23 Jun 2005 23:21:34 +0200

Three more articles are published in online IT newspages about Frugalware Linux. The first can be read on th Newsforge site here (the article is also available on Linux.com, here), written by Eduardo Romero. The other two articles are reviews from different point of view. The first review is readable on linuxquestions.org. The other review is avialable on distrotalk.net.

Frugalware 0.3pre1-i686 released

Wed, 22 Jun 2005 23:34:49 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.3pre1-i686, the first preview of the upcoming 0.3-i686 stable release.

A short list of most important improvements and news since 0.2:* Improvements:

+ Added a new tool: repoman. It helps you to compile packages from source, allowing to automatically create and install closed-source packages like realplayer or skype (repoman merge packagename). Also it allows you to download all package's buildscript (repoman update) and recompile them with your compiler flags, "a la Gentoo".
+ Our build system now supports more than one architecture which means you can expect an x86\_64 preview release soon.
+ All packages got their group, so that if you installed only a base system, you can install all network-related packages with pacman -S network and so.
+ Created a new config tool: wificonfig, to configure your wireless connection.
+ The KDE menu changed a bit: now most installed non-kde applications should apper in the menu, too.
+ Localized Thunderbird and added localized spellcheck support.
+ The gimp-print printer drivers replaced with the foomatic ones, wich means we support much more printers now.
+ Packaged the rox desktop environment.
+ New web [interface](http://frugalware.org/packages.php) for viewing informations about packages.
+ Now all package has it's own changelog, which can be viewed from for example the packages page.

Package highlights: More than 150 new packages: windowmaker applets, firestarter, pure-ftpd, subversion and more.

Articles about Frugalware Linux

Mon, 09 May 2005 21:42:15 +0200

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.

Frugalware 0.2 released

Thu, 28 Apr 2005 09:33:28 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of 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

Please refer to the Frugalware ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware 0.2rc2 released

Mon, 18 Apr 2005 09:22:55 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of 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:

Frugalware 0.2rc1 released

Thu, 07 Apr 2005 09:17:18 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of 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 on mirrors

Sun, 20 Mar 2005 23:30:16 +0100

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

GNOME 2.10.0 is in -current

Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:20:02 +0100

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:

Frugalware 0.2pre2 released

Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:59:18 +0100

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of 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:

OpenOffice.org in Frugalware

Mon, 21 Feb 2005 15:40:32 +0100

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.

Offical Forum

Sun, 06 Feb 2005 19:46:21 +0100

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

Irc web interface and logs

Thu, 20 Jan 2005 00:21:12 +0100

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.

Forum and coming new functions

Sun, 16 Jan 2005 21:58:22 +0100

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.

Frugalware 0.2pre1 released

Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:22:50 +0100

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of 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:

XFce is in -current, Firefox locale packages, too

Thu, 30 Dec 2004 21:15:06 +0100

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of 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)

Planned downtime

Tue, 16 Nov 2004 09:52:54 +0100

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.

New functions on webpage

Sun, 14 Nov 2004 23:23:21 +0100

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.

Frugalware 0.1 screenshot tour by OSDir

Sat, 06 Nov 2004 22:35:40 +0100

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

Frugalware 0.1 released

Tue, 02 Nov 2004 10:27:36 +0100

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of 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:
- got xdm to work
setup:

Frugalware 0.1rc2 released

Mon, 11 Oct 2004 15:40:13 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of 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.

Frugalware 0.1rc1 released

Wed, 29 Sep 2004 07:14:26 +0200

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of 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.

Test message

Mon, 13 Sep 2004 13:53:37 +0200

seems to work… ;-)

nouveau and nvidia in -current

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

With the kernel 2.6.33, we enabled nouveau kernel module. For those who have problem using it or want to use nvidia, you may be unhappy to see that nvidia doesn’t work any more. There are 2 ways to make it working again:

Add nouveau to your /etc/sysconfig/blacklist file (seems to be the simplest and more secure way)
Or happen the following kernel options in your grub configuration: nouveau.modeset=0

Then make a happy reboot.