Development

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 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!

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.

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.8pre1, the first technical preview of the upcoming 1.8 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.7:

• Package updates:
  • Kernel 3.5.4
  • GCC 4.7.2
  • GRUB 2.00
  • systemd 189
  • KDE 4.9.1
• 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!

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.7rc2, the second candidate of the upcoming 1.7 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.7rc1:

• Package updates:
  • Kernel 3.4.6
• New features:
  • fw32 can now build i686 packages on x86_64. see the README for more information.

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!

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.7rc1, the first candidate of the upcoming 1.7 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.7pre2:

• Package updates:
  • Kernel 3.4.4
  • GCC 4.7.1
  • KDE 4.8.4
• New features:
  • installer now supports btrfs as an experimental feature
  • installer now supports jfs
  • grubconfig (our frontend to grub2 installation) can now install to itself to RAID1 mdadm and raw drives with a single option

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.7pre2, the second technical preview of the upcoming 1.7 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.7pre1:

• Package updates:
  • Kernel 3.4.0
  • GCC 4.7.0
  • GNOME 3.4.2
  • KDE 4.8.2
  • XFCE 4.10
  • Firefox 12, Thunderbird 12, Gimp 2.8
• New features:
  • LightDM has replaced SLiM as default display manager for XFCE
  • New default wallpaper

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.7pre1, the first technical preview of the upcoming 1.7 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.6:

• Package updates:
  • Kernel 3.3
  • KDE 4.8.1
  • LibreOffice 3.5.1
  • Firefox 11.0, Thunderbird 11.0, Seamonkey 2.8
• New features:
  • Kernel modules are now compressed with XZ
  • GRUB2 has replaced GRUB1
  • Text installer can now install to GPT labels
  • pm-radeon for setting radeon KMS power management at startup
  • phc package family brings experimental CPU undervolting

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.6rc2, the second technical preview of the upcoming 1.6 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.6rc1:

• Package updates:
  • Linux kernel 3.1.10
  • LibreOffice 3.4.5
  • ~100 updated packages
  • 27 new packages
• New features:
  • New cpupower (LWN article) and perf packages
  • kmod replaced module-init-tools
• Fixes:
  • The installer now handles network timeout errors
  • Documentation updates

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.