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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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:

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:

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:

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:

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: