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Newsletter issue 55
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+ Frugalware Linux Newsletter - Issue 55
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+ ...to inform...to educate...to entertain
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+ "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent
+ life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact
+ us." Calvin, from the popular American comic
+ series "Calvin and Hobbes".
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+ Welcome
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+ The newsletter's aim is to keep you up to date with what's happened
+ recently in the world of the Linux distribution 'Frugalware'.
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+ Features of this issue include:
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+The wiki is back!
+
+Happy birthday to Devil505
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+FLOSS developers are people too
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+Let's all go to Monaco
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+Getting to know you - Dependencies
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+ Events
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+ Here's a selection of events which have occurred since the previous
+ newsletter:
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+ Gimmix is upgraded
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+ Priyank recently packaged a newer version of Gimmix, a GTK-based MPD
+ client. It's light on resources but has a great range of features. Gimmix
+ is rather special because Priyank is its developer as well as the
+ maintainer of its package. After all, who knows a baby better than its
+ father or mother? If you want a GUI MPD client, please try it.
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+ The wiki is back!
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+ As I reported in newsletter issue 53, the Frugalware wiki
+ unfortunately went offline weeks ago. The original wiki was lost, but
+ it's contents had been backed up by VMiklos. To restore the wiki required
+ a new installation, review of content and copying all content into the
+ new wiki, all done by VMiklos, Bouleetbil and Devil505. Many thanks to
+ them for their work. When I last checked, the wiki had a total 1,025
+ pages from 12 contributors.
+
+ The http://wiki.frugalware.org/";>Frugalware wiki - also
+ known as "FrugalWiki" - is based on MediaWiki, the wiki platform used by
+ the famous Wikipedia, as well as other sites. Frugalware is used by
+ people from many countries - and we're proud of that - and this means we
+ need a multi-language wiki. MediaWiki doesn't allow wiki pages with the
+ same titles, so how can we have pages on the same topic in different
+ languages? Our answer is to include a reference to the language in the
+ title page. For details of this and other rules for editing the wiki,
+ please refer to the http://wiki.frugalware.org/index.php/FrugalWiki_Tutorial_(English)">FrugalWiki
+ tutorial.
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+ Happy birthday to Devil505
+
+ Devil505 recently celebrated his 2nd birthday. "What!?", I hear you
+ say. "Do we really have a developer who is 2 years old? The answer is,
+ "Yes" and "No". I'm quite certain Devil505 is not 2 years old in real
+ life, although I don't know his real age. I do know that 2 years ago, he
+ was accepted into the Frugalware developer team. He's made a great
+ contribution to Frugalware over that time, helping not only by packaging
+ applications (mostly games), but also community activities, such
+ as the wiki and the artwork team. Congratulations, Devil505, and we look
+ forward to a lifetime of Frugalware-ing. That's right - one you're "in",
+ you're in for life!
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+ To all other developers, I apologise. I promise I'll find out your
+ Frugalware birthday, mark it on the calendar, and mention it in the
+ newsletter.
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+ What difference does two characters make?
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+ If you subscribe to the #frugalware group's messages on Identi.ca, you
+ will often have seen URLs which have been shortened by the bit.ly
+ service. Like other URL shortening services, it takes a "normal" URL and
+ converts this into a short URL. When you click on the shortened version,
+ bit.ly redirects
