Frugalware 0.2pre1 released

Translations: FR, ES

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.2pre1, the first preview of the upcoming 0.2 stable release.

A short list of most important improvements and fixed bugs since 0.1:* new packages:

+ GNOME 2.8 (including GDM)
+ Xfce 4.2rc3
+ Firefox 1.0 language packs
+ Thunderbird 1.0
+ tetex-bin, tetex-base and kile
+ wine
+ reiser4progs
+ fluxbox

  • updates:

    • updated KDE to 3.3.2 (+ security fixes)
    • KOffice updated to 1.3.5
    • kernel updated to 2.6.10 (+ security fixes)
    • blender updated to 2.36
    • Firefox updated to 1.0
    • new bootsplash theme
    • GTK+2 updated to 2.6.1
    • GCC updated to 3.4.3

  • fixes:

    • XOrg now should work with i810 cards
    • fixed grubconfig to report no error when hitting cancel before installation

  • setup:

    • the first CD splitted up: one for the base system, one for the graphical (x11) system
    • prevented several memory leaks in setup, now should work with 64MB of memory
    • fixed several typos in setup texts

Please refer to the Frugalware ChangeLog for more information.

Frugalware 0.2pre1 can be downloaded by visiting the download page.