This is the first preview release of Frugalware 1.9. It also marks the first
public testing for our new live CD environment, FVBE, and our new installer
called fwsetup.

This has been in development for 8 months already, and is a compilation of 4
older projects. They are fwlive, setup, fwife, and frugalwareutils. In this
new project, they are integrated so they will share a common codebase. This
should help avoid the fragmentation like we had with setup and fwife.

The new installer should be feature complete in terms of replacing the old
installer. However, some parts were removed because of disuse or just plain
uselessness. And some features are entirely new, such as the keyboard
layout selection that also configures your X11 XKB layout.

The main feature that is not yet implemented is a replacement for netconfig.
It should be finishd by pre2. There are no other major features planned for
the new installer during this release cycle, as the existing stuff needs to
be tested more.

There has also been changes to what kinds of ISOs we will build from now on.
Starting with this release, we will only provide ISOs with packages from the
main package groups. Anything from -extra will only be available via net
install or after install is complete. By pre2, net install ISOs should also
be available.

Also of interest is that our new ISOs are now using GRUB2 to boot and no
longer using isolinux to boot. GRUB2 natively supports BIOS hybrid ISOs
for our i686 branch and BIOS/UEFI hybrid ISOs for our x86_64 branch. UEFI
mode is only supported for booting at this time, and not for installation.

One other thing is that the new installer has been primarily tested on x86_64
using the ISO mode of the hybrid ISO. So, we need the most testing on i686
and USB mode. Any feedback will be examined, to help improve the new
installer.

Current known issues include network not working after initial install.
For now, run netconfig after logging in as root. This should work as a
temporary fix until we can implement the netconfig replacement.

To use the new installer, you will need to login as root after the ISO
boots using the password fvbe. To run the installer, use the command
fwsetup.

One final note is that we are looking for someone to design a new 16
color palette for the new installer. Currently it uses the color
palette from Mandriva's NEWT patches. If you are interested, then
contact us on IRC or the forums.

Download for i686 or x86_64: See our mirror list. Don't forget to check the integrity of the install images before burning!

We will be merging with ARCH to form a new distribution called
ArchWare. We've long had our differences, but it's time to move
forward! Long live ArchWare.

P.S. April Fools

We have removed the 10-evdev.conf file from the xorg-server package.
This means when you upgrade, your XKB keyboard layout will no longer work.
This is necessary to transition us closer to what systemd does for this.
To fix your system, please refer here.

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.8, our eightteenth stable release.
No new features have been added since 1.8rc2, but 157 changes have been made to fix minor bugs. If you didn't follow the changes during the pre/rc releases, here are the most important changes since 1.7 in no particular order:

• Updated packages: Linux kernel 3.7.5, XOrg server 1.13.2, GNOME 3.6, KDE 4.9, LibreOffice 3.6.3.2, Mozilla Firefox 18.0.1 to name a few major components.
• video decoding acceleration is now enabled in most multimedia applications
• cpu scaling should now work out of the box on i686 and x86_64
• cpupower is now only needed to modify the default cpu scaling settings
• mesa 7.11 drivers revived to support hardware that mesa upstream dropped support for
• utf8 is now the default locale encoding for new installs and upgrades

Please refer to the Frugalware Cinna ChangeLog for more information.
Download for i686, x86_64, and arm: See our mirror list. Don't forget to check the integrity of the install images before burning!
NOTE: Click here to read more about what media you need for the installation.
If you are upgrading to Cinna from our previous stable release (Gaia), please read the upgrade part of our documentation.

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.8rc2, the second candidate of the upcoming 1.8 stable release.

Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.8rc1:

• Package updates:
  • Kernel 3.7.3
• New features:
  • none

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.
Download for x86_64: See our mirror list. Don't forget to check the integrity of the install images before burning!
NOTE: Click here to read more about what media you need for the installation.

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.8rc1, the first candidate of the upcoming 1.8 stable release.

Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.8pre2:

• Package updates:
  • Kernel 3.7.1
  • Boost 1.50.0
  • KDE 4.9.5
• New features:
  • mesa 7.11 drivers revived to support hardware that mesa upstream dropped support for

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.
Download for x86_64: See our mirror list. Don't forget to check the integrity of the install images before burning!
NOTE: Click here to read more about what media you need for the installation.

The Frugalware development team would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year !

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.8pre2, the second technical preview of the upcoming 1.8 stable release.

Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.8pre1:

• Package updates:
  • Kernel 3.6.6
  • XOrg Server 1.13.0
  • KDE 4.9.3
  • GNOME 3.6
• New features:
  • cpu scaling on i686 and x86_64 now works out of the box for most hardware
  • cpupower is now only needed if you want to change the default behavior
  • video decoding acceleration libraries have been enabled in most multimedia programs

Note: The ISOs will be a bit late on mirroring. There were some last minute fixes that had to be put in.
Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.
Download for x86_64: See our mirror list. Don't forget to check the integrity of the install images before burning!
NOTE: Click here to read more about what media you need for the installation.

It appears that this problem has now been patched in the kernel in current.
Thank you for your patience.

Xorg upgrades have been merged to current. There is some manual intervention
required due to strict version depends. You will need to remove some packages
by force before you can complete your next system upgrade. This command should
assist you in this:

pacman-g2 -Rd ffmpeg-compiletime ffmpeg-0.6 ffmpeg-0.6-compiletime