Frugalware 0.9pre2 (Solaria) released

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.9pre2, the second technical preview of the upcoming 0.9 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.9pre1:

  • Improvements:
    • FUN-0.3.0, which now supports News Notification. (Newsletters, releases, etc.)
    • Many less popular packages are no longer installed by default, reducing the required size of the default installation.
    • Replaced the ipw wireless driver with the newer iwl ones.
    • Reworked the ROX environment, binary packages are available again.
    • More than 2700 small changes.
  • Package updates:
    • GCC 4.3.1
    • Firefox 3.0
    • OpenOffice.org 2.4.1
    • More than 760 other package updates
  • New packages:
    • icecc - set of configuration tools for IceWM
    • libotr and irssi-otr
    • 10+ new fortune modules
    • 20+ new games
    • More than 200 other new packages

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

We now have a feature schedule for new functionalities we plan to implement before we release Solaria as stable.

Download for i686:

NOTE: Click here to read more about what media you need for the installation.

livecd, netinstall, usb, tftp, cd1, cd2, cd3, cd4, cd5, cd6, cd7, cd8, cd9, cd10, cd11, cd12, cd13, cd14, cd15, dvd1, dvd2 and dvd3

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