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

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!

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