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The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.1pre2, the second technical preview of the upcoming 1.1 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 1.1pre1:

• Improvements:
  • An x86_64 flash plugin is now part of the default installation.
  • Just a FYI in case you are using the ext3 filesystem, which is our current default: though we ship the latest stable kernel, we did not switch the default value of the ‘data’ option to ‘writeback’, the feature which still makes ext3 seem more robust than ext4 at the time of writing. See here for more information.
• Package updates:
  • GNU C library 2.10.1
  • Linux kernel 2.6.30
  • Xorg 7.4 with xorg-server 1.6
  • GNOME 2.26.3
  • Xfce 4.6.1
  • GCC 4.4.0
  • More than 980 package updates
  • More than 100 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 1.1pre1, the first technical preview of the upcoming 1.1 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 1.0:

• Improvements:
  • The installer is built with debug support by default for the prereleases to help bugreporters.
  • Major review in the documention: numerous grammatical fixes and various extensions.
• Package updates:
  • Linux kernel 2.6.29.2 + fixes
  • GNOME 2.26
  • Mono 2.4
  • More than 800 other package updates
  • More than 70 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 1.0rc2, the second (and last) release candidate of the upcoming 1.0 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 1.0rc1:

• Improvements:
  • Updated the graphical installer (more info here and here).
  • Updated the artwork.
• Fixes in the setup:
  • Fixed the detection of wireless cards (it asked for ESSID for wired interfaces as well).
  • Fixed GRUB installation when /boot is on RAID1.
  • Handle existing home directories for new users.
• Package updates:
  • Linux kernel 2.6.28.7 + fixes
  • KDE 3.5.10
  • PHP 5.2.9
  • More than 150 other package updates
  • More than 20 new packages

Please refer to the Frugalware Anacreon ChangeLog for more information.

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.0rc1, the first release candidate of the upcoming 1.0 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 1.0pre2:

• Improvements:
  • Experimental support for the ext4 filesystem.
  • Java plugin for x86_64.
  • gService: implemented a brand new graphical runlevel editor.
• Package updates:
  • Linux kernel 2.6.28 + fixes
  • Python 3.0
  • GNOME 2.24.3
  • OpenOffice.org 3.0.1
  • Mozilla Firefox 3.0.6
  • More than 500 other package updates
  • More than 90 new packages

Please refer to the Frugalware Anacreon ChangeLog for more information.

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.0pre2, the second technical preview of the upcoming 1.0 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 1.0pre1:

• Improvements:
  • Setup: support for having /boot on a RAID1 device, improved support for detecting network card names.
  • Serial ports are now owned by the ‘dialout’ (instead of ‘uucp’) group, as a consensus with other distributions.
  • For virtualbox users who had to download the whole (~10MB) package again and again after each kernel update - it’s a good news that now the kernel module is a separate package to stop wasting bandwidth and time.
• Package updates:
  • Mono 2.0.1
  • Python 2.6.1
  • GNOME 2.24.2
  • More than 800 other package updates
  • More than 100 new packages

Please refer to the Frugalware Anacreon ChangeLog for more information.

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.0pre1, the first technical preview of the upcoming 1.0 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.9:

• Improvements:
  • The first Frugalware Installer Front-End landed in the package repository. Yes, a graphical one! This means currently you can use it to bootstrap a new Frugalware system from an existing one, but we promise we’ll improve in this area. :-)
  • Initial ‘ppc’ port. It has been actively tested on Apple boxes: iBook/Power Macintosh models, but IBM hardware is not yet supported (it may or may not work). We also paid special attention to make sure common non-x86 problems, such as playing youtube or Java applets work where possible.
  • The support for having a 32-bit chroot on x86_64 is now arrived. The key package is called emul32-tools. If you run this architecture, check out its documentation!
  • This release should install and run fine on multiple previously unsupported ASUS Eee PC models, due to the recent installer improvements and the new ath9k driver.
• Package updates:
  • Linux 2.6.27 + security fixes
  • GCC 4.3.2
  • GNOME 2.24.1
  • OpenOffice.org 3.0
  • More than 800 other package updates
  • More than 80 new packages

Please refer to the Frugalware Anacreon ChangeLog for more information.