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.

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.

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.

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 ready!

You can read the announcement here.

You can read about the new features here.

Packaging changes since 3.3.2:

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

New packages:

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

Removed packages:

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

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

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

These are untested and need to review or update:

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

Packaging changes from 2.8:

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

New packages:

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

Removed packages (go to pasture):

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

Not packaged packages:

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

Known “bugs” / need to fix:

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:

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

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

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

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

Shrift

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