[Frugalware-git] homepage-ng: Newsletter issue 38
Git-Url: http://git.frugalware.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=homepage-ng.git;a=commitdiff;h=2396757dfe539dae723edcdcd931b739f9053ff5 commit 2396757dfe539dae723edcdcd931b739f9053ff5 Author: Russell Dickenson (phayz) russelldicken...@gmail.com Date: Wed Jan 28 12:07:16 2009 +1000 Newsletter issue 38 diff --git a/frugalware/images/interviews/juky_desktop.jpg b/frugalware/images/interviews/juky_desktop.jpg new file mode 100644 index 000..71f62f2 Binary files /dev/null and b/frugalware/images/interviews/juky_desktop.jpg differ diff --git a/frugalware/weeklynews/issue38.html b/frugalware/weeklynews/issue38.html new file mode 100755 index 000..be4bc39 --- /dev/null +++ b/frugalware/weeklynews/issue38.html @@ -0,0 +1,251 @@ +ph2Frugalware Linux Newsletter - Issue 38/h2/p + +ph2...to inform...to educate...to entertain/h2/p + +pThe future depends on what we do in the present. emMahatma Gandhi/em/p + + +a name=welcomeh2Welcome/h2/a +pThe newsletter's aim is to keep you up to date with what's happened recently in the world of the Linux distribution 'Frugalware'./p + +pFeatures of this issue include: +ul +liFrugalware 1.0 pre2 is released/li +liElentir's officially a developer!/li +liFrugalware's users are people too - juky/li +liFocus On Package(s) - dkopp/li +/ul +/p + + +a name=eventsh2Events/h2/a + +pHere's a selection of events which have occurred since the previous newsletter:/p + +ul +li +h3Parlez-vous français?/h3 +pSoon after the release of newsletter issue 37, Devil505 said that I had missed translating just one word - humour. I looked at where the word was used and was sure it was correct. I learned then that this word has the same spelling and meaning in both English and French. Many French words are commonly used in modern spoken and written English, so it shouldn't have surprised me, but it did!/p +/li +li +h3Xfce 4.6 work continues/h3 +pWork on Xfce 4.6 continues, with the development team continuing to release beta versions. This is great news for Xfce users, but it means more work for Priyank. :( He's been kept busy packaging the latest beta version - 4.5.93. These packages are maintained in a separate repository which must be added manually to pacman's repository list. If you want to test these packages, follow the instructions in newsletter issue FIXME on how to get these packages with pacman-g2. Since the release and the repository are beta, be prepared for bugs./p +/li +li +h3It seemed like a good idea at the time :)/h3 +pWhen I thought of the Frugalware developer questions, I thought it would be interesting to know where people lived and where they were born. I'm Australian and a large percentage of those living in Australia were born in other countries. Unfortunately every other Frugalware developer, contributor and user who has replied to the interview questions was born in the country that they live in. I had thought about removing the question In what country were you born? but I'm still hoping that someone will give a different answer to everyone else. Anyone?/p +/li +li +h3Elentir's officially a developer!/h3 +pElentir has created several FrugalBuilds, and is developing Fwife, the Frugalware GUI installer (which is undergoing heavy development). VMiklos recently proposed on the developers' mailing list that he become an official developer. Soon after this was proposed, the developers voted and agreed that Elentir become an official developer so congratulations to him./p +/li +li +h3Many hands make light work/h3 +pNow that Elentir is officially a developer, this will ease the load of other developers, particularly the French developers. Office duties assigned to each member of the French development team have been reviewed and the following has been proposed:/a/p +p +ul +liHermier - accommodation/li +liBouleetbil - coffee/li +liDevil505 - entertainment (games, mainly Pac Man)/li +ligholafox - donuts/li +liElentir - lunches/li +/ul +/p +/li +li +h3Frugalware 1.0 pre2 is released/h3 +pOn 13 January 2009, VMiklos a href=http://www.frugalware.org/news/123;announced/a the release of Frugalware 1.0 pre2. It's exciting that we're getting closer to the final release of 1.0 and amazing that this release includes 100 new packages and 800 updates/bug fixes. Well done to the development team. If you have the bandwidth and time available, please download and test this release./p +/li +li +h3Death to developers? :P/h3 +pThis is quite old news, but it's interesting. On 18 December 2008, the following was said in the #frugalware IRC channel:/p +p +code +lt strongolegfink/stronggt
Re: [Frugalware-git] homepage-ng: Newsletter issue 38
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 13:10 +0100, Russell Dickenson wrote: Git-Url: http://git.frugalware.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=homepage-ng.git;a=commitdiff;h=2396757dfe539dae723edcdcd931b739f9053ff5 commit 2396757dfe539dae723edcdcd931b739f9053ff5 Author: Russell Dickenson (phayz) russelldicken...@gmail.com Date: Wed Jan 28 12:07:16 2009 +1000 Newsletter issue 38 diff --git a/frugalware/images/interviews/juky_desktop.jpg b/frugalware/images/interviews/juky_desktop.jpg new file mode 100644 index 000..71f62f2 Binary files /dev/null and b/frugalware/images/interviews/juky_desktop.jpg differ diff --git a/frugalware/weeklynews/issue38.html b/frugalware/weeklynews/issue38.html new file mode 100755 index 000..be4bc39 --- /dev/null +++ b/frugalware/weeklynews/issue38.html @@ -0,0 +1,251 @@ +ph2Frugalware Linux Newsletter - Issue 38/h2/p + +ph2...to inform...to educate...to entertain/h2/p + +pThe future depends on what we do in the present. emMahatma Gandhi/em/p + + +a name=welcomeh2Welcome/h2/a +pThe newsletter's aim is to keep you up to date with what's happened recently in the world of the Linux distribution 'Frugalware'./p + +pFeatures of this issue include: +ul +liFrugalware 1.0 pre2 is released/li +liElentir's officially a developer!/li +liFrugalware's users are people too - juky/li +liFocus On Package(s) - dkopp/li +/ul +/p + + +a name=eventsh2Events/h2/a + +pHere's a selection of events which have occurred since the previous newsletter:/p + +ul +li +h3Parlez-vous français?/h3 +pSoon after the release of newsletter issue 37, Devil505 said that I had missed translating just one word - humour. I looked at where the word was used and was sure it was correct. I learned then that this word has the same spelling and meaning in both English and French. Many French words are commonly used in modern spoken and written English, so it shouldn't have surprised me, but it did!/p +/li +li +h3Xfce 4.6 work continues/h3 +pWork on Xfce 4.6 continues, with the development team continuing to release beta versions. This is great news for Xfce users, but it means more work for Priyank. :( He's been kept busy packaging the latest beta version - 4.5.93. These packages are maintained in a separate repository which must be added manually to pacman's repository list. If you want to test these packages, follow the instructions in newsletter issue FIXME on how to get these packages with pacman-g2. Since the release and the repository are beta, be prepared for bugs./p +/li forgot to remove a FIXME ? :) +li +h3It seemed like a good idea at the time :)/h3 +pWhen I thought of the Frugalware developer questions, I thought it would be interesting to know where people lived and where they were born. I'm Australian and a large percentage of those living in Australia were born in other countries. Unfortunately every other Frugalware developer, contributor and user who has replied to the interview questions was born in the country that they live in. I had thought about removing the question In what country were you born? but I'm still hoping that someone will give a different answer to everyone else. Anyone?/p +/li +li +h3Elentir's officially a developer!/h3 +pElentir has created several FrugalBuilds, and is developing Fwife, the Frugalware GUI installer (which is undergoing heavy development). VMiklos recently proposed on the developers' mailing list that he become an official developer. Soon after this was proposed, the developers voted and agreed that Elentir become an official developer so congratulations to him./p +/li +li +h3Many hands make light work/h3 +pNow that Elentir is officially a developer, this will ease the load of other developers, particularly the French developers. Office duties assigned to each member of the French development team have been reviewed and the following has been proposed:/a/p +p +ul +liHermier - accommodation/li +liBouleetbil - coffee/li +liDevil505 - entertainment (games, mainly Pac Man)/li +ligholafox - donuts/li +liElentir - lunches/li +/ul +/p +/li +li +h3Frugalware 1.0 pre2 is released/h3 +pOn 13 January 2009, VMiklos a href=http://www.frugalware.org/news/123;announced/a the release of Frugalware 1.0 pre2. It's exciting that we're getting closer to the final release of 1.0 and amazing that this release includes 100 new packages and 800 updates/bug fixes. Well done to the development team. If you have the bandwidth and time available, please download and test this release./p +/li +li +h3Death to developers? :P/h3 +
Re: [Frugalware-git] homepage-ng: Newsletter issue 38
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:12 AM, Priyank Gosalia priyan...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 13:10 +0100, Russell Dickenson wrote: Git-Url: http://git.frugalware.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=homepage-ng.git;a=commitdiff;h=2396757dfe539dae723edcdcd931b739f9053ff5 commit 2396757dfe539dae723edcdcd931b739f9053ff5 Author: Russell Dickenson (phayz) russelldicken...@gmail.com Date: Wed Jan 28 12:07:16 2009 +1000 Newsletter issue 38 diff --git a/frugalware/images/interviews/juky_desktop.jpg b/frugalware/images/interviews/juky_desktop.jpg new file mode 100644 index 000..71f62f2 Binary files /dev/null and b/frugalware/images/interviews/juky_desktop.jpg differ diff --git a/frugalware/weeklynews/issue38.html b/frugalware/weeklynews/issue38.html new file mode 100755 index 000..be4bc39 --- /dev/null +++ b/frugalware/weeklynews/issue38.html @@ -0,0 +1,251 @@ +ph2Frugalware Linux Newsletter - Issue 38/h2/p + +ph2...to inform...to educate...to entertain/h2/p + +pThe future depends on what we do in the present. emMahatma Gandhi/em/p + + +a name=welcomeh2Welcome/h2/a +pThe newsletter's aim is to keep you up to date with what's happened recently in the world of the Linux distribution 'Frugalware'./p + +pFeatures of this issue include: +ul +liFrugalware 1.0 pre2 is released/li +liElentir's officially a developer!/li +liFrugalware's users are people too - juky/li +liFocus On Package(s) - dkopp/li +/ul +/p + + +a name=eventsh2Events/h2/a + +pHere's a selection of events which have occurred since the previous newsletter:/p + +ul +li +h3Parlez-vous français?/h3 +pSoon after the release of newsletter issue 37, Devil505 said that I had missed translating just one word - humour. I looked at where the word was used and was sure it was correct. I learned then that this word has the same spelling and meaning in both English and French. Many French words are commonly used in modern spoken and written English, so it shouldn't have surprised me, but it did!/p +/li +li +h3Xfce 4.6 work continues/h3 +pWork on Xfce 4.6 continues, with the development team continuing to release beta versions. This is great news for Xfce users, but it means more work for Priyank. :( He's been kept busy packaging the latest beta version - 4.5.93. These packages are maintained in a separate repository which must be added manually to pacman's repository list. If you want to test these packages, follow the instructions in newsletter issue FIXME on how to get these packages with pacman-g2. Since the release and the repository are beta, be prepared for bugs./p +/li forgot to remove a FIXME ? :) +li +h3It seemed like a good idea at the time :)/h3 +pWhen I thought of the Frugalware developer questions, I thought it would be interesting to know where people lived and where they were born. I'm Australian and a large percentage of those living in Australia were born in other countries. Unfortunately every other Frugalware developer, contributor and user who has replied to the interview questions was born in the country that they live in. I had thought about removing the question In what country were you born? but I'm still hoping that someone will give a different answer to everyone else. Anyone?/p +/li +li +h3Elentir's officially a developer!/h3 +pElentir has created several FrugalBuilds, and is developing Fwife, the Frugalware GUI installer (which is undergoing heavy development). VMiklos recently proposed on the developers' mailing list that he become an official developer. Soon after this was proposed, the developers voted and agreed that Elentir become an official developer so congratulations to him./p +/li +li +h3Many hands make light work/h3 +pNow that Elentir is officially a developer, this will ease the load of other developers, particularly the French developers. Office duties assigned to each member of the French development team have been reviewed and the following has been proposed:/a/p +p +ul +liHermier - accommodation/li +liBouleetbil - coffee/li +liDevil505 - entertainment (games, mainly Pac Man)/li +ligholafox - donuts/li +liElentir - lunches/li +/ul +/p +/li +li +h3Frugalware 1.0 pre2 is released/h3 +pOn 13 January 2009, VMiklos a href=http://www.frugalware.org/news/123;announced/a the release of Frugalware 1.0 pre2. It's exciting that we're getting closer to the final release of 1.0 and amazing that this release includes 100 new packages and 800 updates/bug fixes. Well done to the development team. If you have the bandwidth and time available, please download and test
