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.

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 for -current users. Please temporarily switch to a different mirror in /etc/pacman.d/frugalware-current!

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!

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!

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.

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…)

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

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.

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: