April 25, 2008 by gubatron
The amount of spam we’ve been fighting with the last weeks is overwhelming, therefore we finally made the decision to upgrade to phpBB3.
The DB migration has gone far so good.
We’re currently indexing all the posts so you can have search working fast once the forums are back up.
Up to this point we don’t know if the conversion script will help us bring the theme, we may come back with the default theme for a couple of days while we prepare phpBB3 to look the way we did on phpBB2.
As soon as we’re post-able we’ll be back up.
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March 26, 2008 by gubatron
We want to give thanks to William L. Thomson Jr from Gentoo for making FrostWire available to people running Gentoo ~arch or unstable ~x86 or ~amd64.
If you are a Gentoo Linux user you can now just do:
emerge frostwire
And as William says:
it will bring in all deps, compile, install, make desktop menu entries, launcher, etc 
If you’re interested here’s the package
About Gentoo
The Gentoo Linux operating system (pronounced /ˈdÊ’É›ntuË/) is a Linux distribution based on the Portage package management system. The development project and its products are named after the Gentoo penguin. Gentoo package management is designed to be modular, portable, easy to maintain, flexible, and optimized for the user’s machine. Packages are normally built from source code, continuing the tradition of the ports collection, although for convenience, some large software packages are also available as precompiled binaries for various architectures.
Source: Wikipedia
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March 25, 2008 by gubatron
User luisdrk from Caracas,Venezuela has posted this picture on flickr. Pretty cool stuff. it’s actually a parody of this picture by Jesus Molina.
It’s really funny because we had our inspiration from a similar source, we looked for the words “frost wire” in flickr, and we saw frozen barbed wires, this is the one that caught our eye and then we talked to a great graphic designer who did the logo for us.
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Reply with your creations on this post’s comments section.
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March 10, 2008 by gubatron
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March 5, 2008 by gubatron
These are the pages we found talking about our latest FrostWire release. Please let us know if we missed any on your comments.
Remember to support FrostWire, all you gotta do is Link Us and tell everybody they can install it in all their computers for free.
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March 5, 2008 by gubatron
The guys from A Linux World put together this Ubuntu demo, check it out:
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February 28, 2008 by gubatron
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
FrostWire 4.13.5 is now available for MS Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. Major updates improve network bootstraping and peer discovery. 4.13.5 includes improvements on the Chatroom tab, Audio Previews and more.
Other improvements have taken place for the FrostWire build process (for developers this means true One-Step builds for all versions). Updates on translations have been made thanks to the feedback from users in Poland and throughout Latin America. .
In more detail users can expect the following:
- Faster peer discovery on connection bootstraping. No more “Starting Connection…” problems, first time users will connect faster without using the official FixConnecting.zip patch.
- Smiley Support to the chatroom
Users can see the available smileys by entering the command
/smileys
Now its possible to see and use Smileys from the Community Chat tab, Smiley display can be enabled or disabled from the view menu:
Users can also toggle Smiley display directly from the chat window by typing the command
/tsmileys
- Fixed wording on Spanish and Polish translations.
Bug Fixes and other improvements for this release also include:
- FrostWire Message Update System improved. Per community request, some announcements will not be shown more than once so the user is not annoyed upon every application launch
- Fixed bugs on the media player and playlists on Preview.
- Fixed bug on search box auto-focusing while a search was running.
- Fixed i18n system error for systems which default language is not english
- Potential bugs related to deprecated code gone
Users can find now by details without the auto-focusing problem.
FrostWire 4.13.5 is expected to be the last of the 4.13.x series.
About FrostWire
FrostWire, a Gnutella Peer-to-Peer client, is a collaborative effort from many Open Source and freelance developers located from all around the world. In late 2005, concerned developers of LimeWire’s open source community announced the start of a new project fork “FrostWire” that would protect the developmental source code of the LimeWire client and any improvements to the Gnutella protocol design. The developers of FrostWire give high regard and respect to the GNU General Public License and consider it to be the ideal foundation of a creative and free enterprise market.
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February 28, 2008 by gubatron
Toda we have received the honor of being a 100% CLEAN certified Mac software by the people of Softpedia.
Mac and Linux users are the first to try 4.13.5 while we get ready for a massive update.
Soon a press release with the new features and changelog.
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February 12, 2008 by gubatron
This is to all bloggers that use FrostWire.
We need your support to keep growing the network.
If you have some space left on your side bar, or on some pages of your blog, or myspace page, or whatever page you have, please link to us.
Here’s a code snippet you can use:
More snippets and banners here
About next release
With the adition of a new coder to the team, FTA, version 4.13.5 is well on its way.
- Added Smiley support to the Chatroom. Developer note: irc.jar is now part of our build process.
- Fixed wording on spanish translation.
- Fixed bugs on the media player and playlists on Preview.
- Fixed bug on search box auto-focusing while a search was running.
- Fixed typo in Polish. Thanks Radek.
- Fixed i18n bug, where non english operating system could never keep english as the preferred language, it would always default to the OS language after restarting FW. Thanks to FTA our new dev team member.
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January 15, 2008 by gubatron
Today, January 15th 2008, we have introduced a test patch to make the connection issues go away. The patch should work with XP. It has not been tested with Vista. Please Try it and give us all your feedback (both XP and Vista users feedback would be greatly appreciated)
Our thanks to FTA for this patch.
The instructions are simple:
1. Download zip file from http://www.mybloop.com/FTA/fixconnecting.zip
2. Close FrostWire completely if it’s running
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3. Open the zip file and then click on ‘fixgnutella.exe’
The executable is virus free and it should run without problems (XP and Vista), in very rare situations it could need some kind of “DLL” or additional files.
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