Frugalware Linux - Let's make things Frugal!

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.2rc1, the first candidate of the upcoming 1.2 stable release.
A short and incomplete list of changes since 1.2pre2:

Improvements:
- We finally upgraded our KDE (and related) packages to the 4.x branch. The work started back in April 2009 and now we thought it's a good move to merge that testing repository.
- Updated artwork.
Package updates:
- KDE 4.3.5
- GNU C Library 2.11.1
- Mozilla Firefox 3.6
- Thunderbird 3.0.1
- More than 400 other package updates
- More than 100 new packages

Please refer to the Frugalware Locris ChangeLog for more information.
Download for i686: 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.

Posted by Miklos Vajna - Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:38:17 +0100

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 57

The newsletter's aim is to keep you up to date with what's happened recently in the world of Frugalware.
Features of this issue include:

Farewell to Jercel
Crazy's back
I am missing "you"...
Getting To Know You - Patches
FLOSS developers are people too - Jeff Bailes

You can read it here. We hope you like it!

Posted by phayz - Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:54:40 +1000

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 56

The newsletter's aim is to keep you up to date with what's happened recently in the world of Frugalware.

This is a special newsletter issue, devoted to a review of Frugalware's achievements and events in 2009.

You can read it here. We hope you like it!

Posted by phayz - Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:15:17 +1000

Frugalware 1.2pre2 (Locris) released

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.2pre2, the second technical preview of the upcoming 1.2 stable release.
A short and incomplete list of changes since 1.2pre1:

Improvements:
- Introduced devtmpfs: you can now exclude /dev from backups, along with /proc and /sys.
- Removed several large games from the install images (CD/DVD) which means one less DVD or 4 less CDs.
Package updates:
- Linux kernel 2.6.32 + fixes
- GNU C Library 2.11
- Mozilla Firefox 3.5.7
- Thunderbird 3.0
- More than 800 other package updates
- More than 100 new packages

Posted by Miklos Vajna - Mon, 11 Jan 2010 01:02:50 +0100

Happy New Year!

The Frugalware team would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year. 2009 was a year of many major achievements, including new developers, new contributors, a GUI installer (fwife), more translations, and many new packages. We look forward to an equally successful 2010.

Posted by Devil505 - Thu, 31 Dec 2008 15:53:55 +1000

Merry Christmas

The Frugalware team would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. If you don't celebrate Christmas, we hope you can enjoy the best of this time of year, while avoiding the worst. :)

Posted by Devil505 - Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:25:00 +1000

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 55

The newsletter's aim is to keep you up to date with what's happened recently in the world of Frugalware.
Features of this issue include:

The wiki is back!
Happy birthday to Devil505
FLOSS developers are people too
Let's all go to Monaco
Getting to know you - Dependencies

You can read it here. We hope you like it!

Posted by phayz - Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:33:52 +1000

Wiki is back !

Frugalware Linux official wiki is back online here. We encourage all frugalware users to contribute, please don't forget to read the FrugalWiki Tutorial. Any comments and suggestions are welcome, ping Devil505 or Bouleetbil on #frugalware.

Posted by Devil505 - Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:48:10 +1000

Frugalware Newsletter Issue 54

The newsletter's aim is to keep you up to date with what's happened recently in the world of Frugalware.
Features of this issue include:

New artwork for 'Locris'
"Who turned out the lights?"
ryuo's on a mission!
FLOSS developers are people too - Stuart Rackham
Getting To Know You - What is a FrugalBuild?

You can read it here. We hope you like it!

Posted by phayz - Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:56:10 +1000

Frugalware 1.2pre1 (Locris) released

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.2pre1, the first technical preview of the upcoming 1.2 stable release.
A short and incomplete list of changes since 1.1:

Improvements:
- KMS (Kernel Mode-Setting) is now enabled by default for Intel and Radeon cards.
- PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is now part of the base system
Package updates:
- Linux kernel 2.6.31 + fixes
- GNOME 2.28
- OpenOffice.org 3.1.1
- Mozilla Firefox 3.5.4
- More than 900 other package updates
- More than 70 new packages

Posted by Miklos Vajna - Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:14:19 +0100