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Author: Russell Dickenson (AKA phayz) <ph...@frugalware.org>
Date:   Thu Oct 14 21:56:43 2010 +1000

Newsletter issue 72

* initial release

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+  <h2>Frugalware Linux Newsletter - Issue 72</h2>
+
+  <h2>...to inform...to educate...to entertain</h2>
+
+  <p>"...the Linux philosophy is "laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong
+  one. "Do it yourself". That's it."<em>Linus Torvalds</em></p>
+
+  <h2>Welcome</h2>
+
+  <p>The newsletter's aim is to keep you up to date with what's happened
+  recently in the world of the Linux distribution 'Frugalware'.</p>
+
+  <p>Features of this issue include:</p>
+
+  <ul>
+    <li>kikadf is officially a Frugalware developer</li>
+
+    <li>Botchchikii submits more FrugalBuilds</li>
+
+    <li>Tips and tricks - Adding a custom Frugalware repository to pacman-g2's
+    configuration</li>
+
+    <li>Focus On Package(s) - QTM and cclive</li>
+  </ul>
+
+  <h2><img src="http://frugalware.org/images/newsletter/event.png"; align=
+  "left">Events etc</h2>
+
+  <p>Here's a selection of recent events and other items that you might find
+  interesting:</p>
+
+  <h3>kikadf is officially a Frugalware developer</h3>
+
+  <p>Frugalware user kikadf successfully submitted FrugalBuilds for packages
+  such as Launchy, Kupfer, DeaDBeeF and aTunes. The quality of his work was so
+  good that it usually needed only a review before being accepted. Developer
+  VMiklos suggested that kikadf become an official member of the development
+  team and called for the votes of other developers. Everyone voted "Yes", so
+  kikadf is officially a member of the Frugalware development team.
+  Congratulations!</p>
+
+  <h3>Botchchikii submits more FrugalBuilds</h3>
+
+  <p>In newsletter issue 71 I pointed out that Frugalware user Botchchikii had
+  submitted his very first FrugalBuild for QTM. With only minor changes that
+  was quickly accepted and added to the 'current' repository. He now has plans
+  to package Calibre, an e-book reader but it has two main dependencies -
+  Podofo and Pypdf - that needed to be packaged first. FrugalBuilds for both
+  have now been submitted, with Pypdf already having been accepted. If Podofo
+  is also accepted we'll probably see Calibre packaged for Frugalware soon.
+  Many thanks to Botchchikii for his excellent work.</p>
+
+  <h3>"The goal of the game is ... to win Muhaawhahaha"</h3>
+
+  <p>This quote is from Frugalware user fbiot, who recently submitted
+  FrugalBuilds for two new applications: tiled and MisfitModel3D. tiled is "a
+  general purpose tile 2D and iso map editor" and MisfitModel3D is a 3D model
+  editor. He is using both applications in developing a new game named
+  Satowerdefense, to be released under a GPL licence. You can take a look at
+  what he's already achieved at the Sourceforge site - <a href=
+  
"http://sourceforge.net/projects/satowerdefense/";>http://sourceforge.net/projects/satowerdefense/</a>.
+  There is more work to be done, but the game is playable and already looks
+  good. When the first release is done, he plans to use OpenGL to give the game
+  a 3D look, and this is where MisfitModel3D is required. Below is a screenshot
+  of one of the first models he has created with MisfitModel3D, which I think
+  looks great.</p><img 
src="http://frugalware.org/images/newsletter/issue72_misfitmodel3d_plane.png"; 
alt=
+  "Example Misfitmodel3D model">
+
+  <h3>Control your PC from your phone</h3>
+
+  <p>Frugalware developer VMiklos recently packaged <a href=
+  "http://sourceforge.net/projects/anyremote";>anyremote, which allows you to
+  control your computer from your phone. Using only your phone you can carry
+  out actions simply and easily for which you would normally use your mouse or
+  keyboard. Here's a table of common keyboard functions and the matching
+  'anyremote' keycodes:</p>
+
+  <table border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0">
+    <tr>
+      <th>Function</th>
+
+      <th>Keycode</th>
+    </tr>
+
+    <tr>
+      <td>Up Arrow</td>
+
+      <td>5757509789</td>
+    </tr>
+
+    <tr>
+      <td>Down Arrow</td>
+
+      <td>9276786263</td>
+    </tr>
+
+    <tr>
+      <td>Page Up</td>
+
+      <td>6389789268</td>
+    </tr>
+
+    <tr>
+      <td>Page Down</td>
+
+      <td>2786716862</td>
+    </tr>
+
+    <tr>
+      <td>Enter</td>
+
+      <td>7367778682</td>
+    </tr>
+  </table>
+
+  <p>As you can see from these examples, you can save a lot of time with
+  'anyremote'. Instead of pressing just one key on your keyboard, you can
+  instead enter a 10-digit sequence on your phone. With most keyboards having
+  over 100 keys, that's over 100 10-digit sequences to remember. Doesn't that
+  sound like fun! :P Please try it for yourself because I'm sure you will
+  either love it...or curse VMiklos, forever.</p>
+
+  <h2><img src="http://frugalware.org/images/newsletter/package.png"; align=
+  "left">New Packages</h2>
+
+  <p>Here are details of some packages which have been added since the previous
+  issue.</p>
+
+  <table border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0">
+    <tr>
+      <th width="20%">Package's Name</th>
+
+      <th width="50%">Description</th>
+
+      <th width="20%">Maintainer</th>
+    </tr>
+
+    <tr>
+      <td>muCommander-0.8.5</td>
+
+      <td>muCommander is a java based, lightweight, cross-platform file manager
+      with a dual-pane interface.</td>
+
+      <td>kikadf</td>
+    </tr>
+
+    <tr>
+      <td>caps-0.4.4</td>
+
+      <td>A collection of refined LADSPA audio plugins.</td>
+
+      <td>exceed</td>
+    </tr>
+
+    <tr>
+      <td>pytz-2010l</td>
+
+      <td>World Timezone Definitions for Python.</td>
+
+      <td>bouleetbil</td>
+    </tr>
+
+    <tr>
+      <td>dash-0.5.6.1</td>
+
+      <td>A POSIX compliant shell implementation of /bin/sh.</td>
+
+      <td>ryuo</td>
+    </tr>
+
+    <tr>
+      <td>bsh-2.04b</td>
+
+      <td>Lightweight Scripting for Java.</td>
+
+      <td>vmiklos</td>
+    </tr>
+
+    <tr>
+      <td>xavante-2.2.0</td>
+
+      <td>A Lua HTTP 1.1 Web server that uses a modular architecture based on
+      URI mapped handlers.</td>
+
+      <td>Kooda</td>
+    </tr>
+  </table>
+
+  <h2><img src="http://frugalware.org/images/newsletter/tip.png"; align=
+  "left">Tips and tricks</h2>
+
+  <p><b>Disclaimer</b> - Be aware that the hints &amp; tips provided here have
+  NOT been tested and so come with no warranty.</p>
+
+  <h3>Adding a custom Frugalware repository to pacman-g2's configuration</h3>
+
+  <p>pacman-g2 allows you to add to its configuration a custom Frugalware
+  repository, such as a developer's work in progress (WIP) repository. The
+  format in which the configuration lines must be added is detailed in
+  pacman-g2's configuration file. The name of the repository must be surrounded
+  with square brackets - '[' and ']'. When pacman-g2 downloads the list of
+  packages contained in a repository, it downloads a file named the same as the
+  repository's name, with a suffix of ".fdb". If you don't have the
+  repository's name right, pacman-g2 won't be able to download the package list
+  and so you won't be able to install any of its packages. How do I know this?
+  Because I once typed the name of a repository incorrectly and so couldn't
+  install packages. Thankfully I soon found my error. :)</p>
+
+  <p>This section relies on your contributions! If you have some tips and
+  tricks that you would like to be shown in the newsletter, <em>please</em>
+  post them on the forums.</p>
+
+  <h2><img src="http://frugalware.org/images/newsletter/package.png"; align=
+  "left">Focus On Package(s)</h2>
+
+  <h3>QTM</h3>
+
+  <p>According to its home page, "<a href="http://qtm.blogistan.co.uk/";>QTM</a>
+  is a blogging client which is presently capable of composing, formatting and
+  submitting blog entries to a weblog. QTM will work with blogs based on most
+  of the major blogging systems available today: Wordpress (including
+  wordpress.com), Movable Type, Drupal and so on." Using a blogging client
+  instead of the native interface offers advantages such as independence from
+  the blogging engine, the ability to write blog entries offline and desktop
+  integration. QTM provides a functional, attractive and easy-to-use interface,
+  with all the features you need to maintain your blog. If you blog on one of
+  the many supported blogging platforms, try QTM.</p>
+
+  <img src=
+  "http://frugalware.org/images/newsletter/issue72_qtm_screenshot.png"; 
alt="Screenshot of QTM">
+
+  <h3>cclive</h3>
+
+  <p><a href="http://code.google.com/p/cclive/";>cclive</a> is "a free,
+  no-nonsense, command line tool that will help you download videos from
+  YouTube and similar video-sharing websites." Sites like YouTube offer an
+  amazing number of videos, ranging from completely silly to educational. These
+  sites provide an embedded Flash-based player, which requires you to have a
+  Flash plugin installed in your browser, either the proprietary plugin from
+  Adobe or Gnash, the FLOSS replacement. An even better option is to download
+  the video with cclive and watch it whenever you choose, with whatever video
+  player you choose.</p>
+
+  <p>cclive has a single purpose, and the developer emphasises this, saying it
+  "is not, nor intended to become, "an universal" flash video download tool."
+  However on the web site are links to other tools which work well together
+  with cclive, including:</p>
+
+  <ul>
+    <li>grake -- Youtube link scanner</li>
+
+    <li>gcap -- Youtube closed captions</li>
+
+    <li>umph -- Youtube playlists</li>
+  </ul>
+
+  <h2><img src="http://frugalware.org/images/newsletter/bug.png"; align=
+  "left">Bug fixes</h2>
+
+  <p>The following table gives you a overview of activity on bugs and feature
+  requests as at 14 October 2010. In each cell of the table is a link to a
+  detailed list of the relevant bugs or feature requests.</p>
+
+  <table border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0">
+    <tr>
+      <th>Activity</th>
+
+      <th>Bugs</th>
+
+      <th>Feature<br>
+      Requests</th>
+    </tr>
+
+    <tr>
+      <td>Open</td>
+
+      <td><a href=
+      
"http://bugs.frugalware.org/index.php?string=&amp;project=1&amp;type[]=1&amp;sev[]=&amp;pri[]=&amp;due[]=&amp;reported[]=&amp;cat[]=&amp;status[]=open&amp;percent[]=&amp;opened=&amp;dev=&amp;closed=&amp;duedatefrom=&amp;duedateto=&amp;changedfrom=&amp;changedto=&amp;openedfrom=&amp;openedto=&amp;closedfrom=&amp;closedto=&amp;do=index";>
+      141</a></td>
+
+      <td><a href=
+      
"http://bugs.frugalware.org/index.php?string=&amp;project=1&amp;type[]=2&amp;sev[]=&amp;pri[]=&amp;due[]=&amp;reported[]=&amp;cat[]=&amp;status[]=open&amp;percent[]=&amp;opened=&amp;dev=&amp;closed=&amp;duedatefrom=&amp;duedateto=&amp;changedfrom=&amp;changedto=&amp;openedfrom=&amp;openedto=&amp;closedfrom=&amp;closedto=&amp;do=index";>
+      196</a></td>
+    </tr>
+
+    <tr>
+      <td>Opened since the previous newsletter</td>
+
+      <td><a href=
+      
"http://bugs.frugalware.org/index.php?string=&amp;project=1&amp;type[]=1&amp;sev[]=&amp;pri[]=&amp;due[]=&amp;reported[]=&amp;cat[]=&amp;status[]=open&amp;percent[]=&amp;opened=&amp;dev=&amp;closed=&amp;duedatefrom=&amp;duedateto=&amp;changedfrom=&amp;changedto=&amp;openedfrom=2010-09-23&amp;openedto=&amp;closedfrom=&amp;closedto=&amp;do=index";>
+      9</a></td>
+
+      <td><a href=
+      
"http://bugs.frugalware.org/index.php?string=&amp;project=1&amp;type[]=2&amp;sev[]=&amp;pri[]=&amp;due[]=&amp;reported[]=&amp;cat[]=&amp;status[]=open&amp;percent[]=&amp;opened=&amp;dev=&amp;closed=&amp;duedatefrom=&amp;duedateto=&amp;changedfrom=&amp;changedto=&amp;openedfrom=2010-09-23&amp;openedto=&amp;closedfrom=&amp;closedto=&amp;do=index";>
+      3</a></td>
+    </tr>
+
+    <tr>
+      <td>Closed since the previous newsletter</td>
+
+      <td><a href=
+      
"http://bugs.frugalware.org/index.php?string=&amp;project=1&amp;type%5B%5D=1&amp;sev%5B%5D=&amp;pri%5B%5D=&amp;due%5B%5D=&amp;reported%5B%5D=&amp;cat%5B%5D=&amp;status%5B%5D=closed&amp;percent%5B%5D=&amp;opened=&amp;dev=&amp;closed=&amp;duedatefrom=&amp;duedateto=&amp;changedfrom=&amp;changedto=&amp;openedfrom=&amp;openedto=&amp;closedfrom=2010-09-23&amp;closedto=&amp;do=index";>
+      14</a></td>
+
+      <td><a href=
+      
"http://bugs.frugalware.org/index.php?string=&amp;project=1&amp;type%5B%5D=2&amp;sev%5B%5D=&amp;pri%5B%5D=&amp;due%5B%5D=&amp;reported%5B%5D=&amp;cat%5B%5D=&amp;status%5B%5D=closed&amp;percent%5B%5D=&amp;opened=&amp;dev=&amp;closed=&amp;duedatefrom=&amp;duedateto=&amp;changedfrom=&amp;changedto=&amp;openedfrom=&amp;openedto=&amp;closedfrom=2010-09-23&amp;closedto=&amp;do=index";>
+      2</a></td>
+    </tr>
+  </table>
+
+  <h2><img src="http://frugalware.org/images/newsletter/security.png"; align=
+  "left">Security announcements</h2>
+
+  <p><b>Remember</b> - According to the normal support arrangements for
+  Frugalware, the release of 1.3 ("Haven") means that no further security or
+  bug fixes will be released for Frugalware 1.2 ("Locris") or earlier.</p>
+
+  <p>Here is a list of <a href="/security">security issues</a> which have been
+  discovered and fixed in the 1.3 release since the previous newsletter.</p>
+
+  <p><strong>NONE</strong></p>
+
+  <h2><img src="http://frugalware.org/images/newsletter/newsletter.png"; align=
+  "left">About the newsletter</h2>
+
+  <h3>Author</h3>
+
+  <p>The Frugalware newsletter is written and edited by Russell Dickenson (AKA
+  phayz). Credit for the Frugalware distribution goes to the development
+  team.</p>
+
+  <h3>Translations</h3>
+
+  <p>The newsletter is currently translated into <a href=
+  "http://frugalware.fr";>French</a> and <a href=
+  "http://frugalware.dk/?cat=5";>Danish</a> by their respective communities as
+  soon as possible. Please be patient as it can take some time to translate
+  each issue. Thanks to all those involved in providing and hosting these
+  translations.</p>
+
+  <h3>Release</h3>
+
+  <p>To allow time for review and corrections, each newsletter is written ahead
+  of its release date. Therefore it may not mention events which occurred in
+  the few days before its release - e.g. security fixes. To be sure that you've
+  got the very latest information on these topics, go to the appropriate page
+  of the Frugalware web site.</p>
+
+  <h3>Feedback</h3>
+
+  <p>If you have feedback about the Frugalware newsletter - whether good or bad
+  - please provide it via the forums. Your feedback is valuable because we want
+  the newsletter to meet the needs of Frugalware's users.</p>
+</body>
+</html>
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