adslconfig has been merged with netconfig and this point all the old config scripts has been ported to frugalwareutils, namely: grubconfig, mouseconfig, netconfig, raidconfig, timeconfig, xconfig and xwmconfig

time to remove this very old item from my TODO ;)

Donald Bruce Stewart has created a simple shell script to create darcs graphs, and i've modified it to create a simple spam stat. the result looks promising ;)

what do you need?

• with bogofilter, i use the following procmail rule: :0: * ^X-Bogosity: Spam date +%y%m%d >>~/spamstat/dev/null
• then do a darcs get http://frugalware.org/~vmiklos/spam-graph/ and run sh spam-graph ~/spamstat
• if you have gnuplot installed the png image should be generated soon :)

my problem was that (especially on some mailing lists) i use different signatures. with the folder hooks this can be solved in a very nice way. so i have 2 signatures: a default one and a special (for a given mailing list):

folder-hook . set signature=~/.signature folder-hook special set signature=~/.signature.special

and now when i write a mail/reply from that folder the special signature is used :)

this post is mainly the result of the cleanup of my firefox tabs :)

predefined macros in gcc

string manipulation using bash

string functions in make

finally, we have a proper US mirror :)

many thanks to Eddie Torres and mirrors.tds.net!

xwmconfig has been ported to frugalwareutils, for example if you just install base&x11&xlibs in a netinstall then you're asked what wm do you want to start from xdm till you can't edit your own ~/.xinitrc

new setup isos: i686 | x86_64

after the recent freenx/knx update resume should now work in nx. a cheap trick: if you use kde the window titles may be weird after a resume, a workaround is to run

dcop kwin default reconfigure

after resume. (more info here)

the x.org foundation pulblished and then we pushed a few patches for the "setuid()return value check problem". packages affected: libX11, xdm, xf86dga, xinit, xload, xorg-server and xtrans. do a pacman -Syu ;)

www2.frugalware.org is now equal to {www.,}frugalware.org, hopefully we broke nothing, if yes then just file the usual bugreports. probably IroNiQ or Alex will post a news entry about this soon :)

• 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