The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.3rc2, the second candidate of the upcoming 1.3 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.3rc1:
Improvements and fixes: The included new Linux 2.6.35 kernel comes with various new drivers and features (summary). Fixed the USB installer, the image we shipped in 1.3rc1 was missing a working bootloader on it. Fixed the KDE artwork.
The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.3rc1, the first candidate of the upcoming 1.3 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements and changes since 1.3pre2:
Improvements: X.org now uses udev to detect your hardware automatically, /etc/X11/xorg.conf is no longer generated by default. Started integrating the Haven artwork. Package updates: Linux 2.6.34.1 GNOME 2.30.2 KDE SC 4.4.5 Mozilla Firefox 3.6.6 Updated libraries: openssl-1.
The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.3pre2, the second technical preview of the upcoming 1.3 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements and changes since 1.3pre1:
Improvements: The monolithic configuration of XOrg is now split to the xorg.conf.d directory. You can still use the monolithic config, but the config files in the new directory have priority. Updated image libraries: libjpeg 8 and libpng 1.
The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.3pre1, the first technical preview of the upcoming 1.3 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements and changes since 1.2:
Improvements: For the first time in the history of Frugalware Linux, we’re offering an official graphical netinstall image, search for the “-gui” suffix on the ftp mirrors. This time we’ve verified that no workaround is needed to install this release in VMware and because of this, the relevant note is removed from the documentation.
The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.2rc2, the second candidate of the upcoming 1.2 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements and changes since 1.2rc1:
Improvements: This release comes with Xorg 7.5, see the upstream list of new features. We’ve updated our bluez userspace stack to the 4.x branch, which allowed us to improve both GNOME and KDE bluetooth support. Package updates: Linux kernel 2.
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.
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.
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.
The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.1rc2, the second candidate of the upcoming 1.1 stable release.
A short and incomplete list of changes since 1.1rc1:
Improvements: Updated the artwork. Packaged android-sdk, for those who want network access from Frugalware through their Android phones. Package updates: PHP 5.3 Octave 3.2 More than 250 package updates More than 40 new packages Please refer to the Frugalware Getorin ChangeLog for more information.
The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.1rc1, the first release of the upcoming 1.1 stable release.
A short and incomplete list of changes since 1.1pre2:
Improvements: Etoile is now part of the repository, see this post for more details. Major update on the graphical installer (fwife), see the changelog here and there. Package updates: Linux kernel 2.6.30.3 GnuTLS 2.8 More than 400 package updates More than 100 new packages Please refer to the Frugalware Getorin ChangeLog for more information.
