Useless and so needed, you may know Cowsay who displays a cow, a tuc, a dark vador…in your terminal. I’ve just packaged in current repository of Frugalware, cowsay-futurama, who displays some characters from the tv animated serie Futurama.

With a fortune-mod (here fortune-mod-futurama-fr), this can make your terminal more funny

Postler, the mail application for Elementary has been replaced by a fresh new project named Geary and designed by Yorba, well-known to be the author of Shotwell.

Geary has been packaged and is available in current repository of Frugalware.

This application has a nice design, very similar to the mail application of MacOS I think. For a first version, Geary seems enough stable, if you are bored by thunderbird, evolution or kmail, try it

Gimp 2.8 is now in current repository of Frugalware with the mono-window feature!

These days I’m packaging the pre-versions of the incoming XFCE 4.10 in my repository xfcetesting for Frugalware. By the way, the final version is planned for around 28th of April. I’ve started to discover the second pre-version available, since few days, for testing by Frugalware users via my repo by adding in file /etc/pacman-g2.conf before current


[xfcetesting]
Server=ftp://ftp.frugalware.org/pub/other/people/devil505/xfcetesting/frugalware-@CARCH@

Replace @CARCH@ by i686 or x86_64 according to your arch, then perform pacman -Syu :p

Let’s see the new features:

XFCE4-settings has now categories:

There is now a tool like gconf-editor to edit configurations of tools and applications of XFCE:

There is a MIME types editor:

A lot of new features is present but not visibles by the user.

Conclusion, XFCE 4.10 will be a good evolution of 4.8. Xfwm4 supports now the tiling, move a window to one of the corner of the screen and see Nice job from the dev team and I am already curious to see XFCE 4.12, in one year, with the switching to Gtk+3.

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.
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.

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)

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.

I've just migrated the blog and the few comments I have to Octopress, looks nice and blogging is as easy as it was before with asciidoc. I'll stick with it for a while.

Maybe you already know, I am the editor of the fresh new magazine of the Frugalware Linux community.

The first issue has been published since almost 1 week and is available as PDF file here: http://frugalware.org/news/228

It’s the first issue, so all is not perfect, no worries, next issues will be quite better. This is the occasion to make a call for contribution, don’t hesitate to contact me for send me your articles. If you don’t use frugalware, you can send me your advises, opinions, critics…etc, I’ll be able to start a section for “Mails from readers”, who knows…

Anyway, enjoy the reading of this issue 1