• grubconfig now uses os-prober to detect other operating systems, this means for example the boot parameters of an other existing installation are detected, or the proper title is set if you have a Microsoft installation
• kernel bumped to 2.6.17
• parted is now available - you can resize your fat/ext3 partitions on the fly from the setup
• ssh is available on the setupcd
• on tty5 there is a small nice tetris in case the installation would be boring - thanks slin for this :)

atm i've tested the 20060619 images with a simple base-only installation

ah, and if we're at it (just because it's a frequently asked question):

• i've installed base to a 500mb-sized partition (no, not bigger!)
• booting up the system took 20 secs

has been uploaded, all the external modules are updates (or where it's broken, the m8rs are working on it). unfortunatelly swsusp has been disabled, but don't worry, it's already fixed in darcs, so if you really need it now and can't wait till 2.6.17.1, then use the usual repoman merge kernel

when you send a mail from genesis, sometimes you get the following reply: mail@addr.ess Delay reason: SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO:<mail@address>: host mail.addr.ess [1.2.3.4]: 450 <foo@genesis.frugalware.org>: Sender address rejected: unverified address: connect to genesis.frugalware.org[157.181.177.34]: Connection refused

the solution is simple, but not trivial. it depends on the user-agent you use, in mutt, you should put the following magic line to your muttrc: set use_envelope_from then i'll be ok again :)

i've worked again a bit on mkiso:

• now you can (optionally) define a tag, so that after the frugalware repo, not all the locale-extra pkgs will have higher priority than the other extra pkgs, just a selected language's locale pkgs
• it generates a small stat next to the iso, for example the current ones are available for a while here

have fun! :)

#809 was a request for this. the new snapshot supports using a wireless card to fetch packages. the most common problem (probably) will be that extra modules are not included in the netinstall iso. if a module is requested then we'll put it in. so, please request the modules you find to be missing! thanks

release notes, commit, x86_64 fpms. enjoy! :)

the current (old) mkiso script worked, but had several limitations:

• you had to have write access to the repo
• no dependency checking, you needed to arrange the categories by hand
• no support for more than one dvd

yes, this all has been gone, there is a new mkiso in the pacman-tools repo (and soon in the next pacman-tools release) which supports all these missing features, basically you need to specify the volume size and the wished volumes in an xml, then mkiso will do everything for you. also it comes with a nice manpage examples :)

a complete rewrite of the old xconfig script in the frugalware pkg is now included in frugalwareutils. since the code is native, it's much more faster. it should work at least as well as the old script, but who knows - if you find any bug then please report it to us

thanks!

mxw is a simple C irc bot. i've start it as a fun project (usually people write irc bots in perl or python), but currently it handles more and more functions. today i've added rss support (using libmrss) so that on the #frugalware channel mxw_ floods the users with package updates and blog posts ;-)

of course the whole code is still experimental, i hope this post will appear on #frugalware, too :)

distrowatch published an interview with me, maybe it's interesting :)