El Equipo de Desarrolladore de Frugalware tiene el placer de anunciar la disponiblidad de Frugalware 0.5pre1, the first technical preview of the upcoming 0.5 stable release for the i686 architecture.

A short and incomplete list of the more than 3000 changes since 0.4:

• Updates:

  • GNU C Library 2.4
  • GCC 4.1.0
  • KDE 3.5.2
  • More than 300 new packages

• Nuevas mejoras:

  • Created a new tool, called ‘setup’, to summarize the available configuration tools. (screenshot)
  • Localized the package manager. (currently German and Hungarian language support available)
  • Added Brazilian and Indonesian translation to the setup.

• Known problems:

El Equipo de Desarrolladore de Frugalware tiene el placer de anunciar la disponiblidad de Frugalware 0.4 for the i686 and x86_64 architectures, our fourth stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.4rc2-i686:

• Updates:

  • Update to Linux 2.6.16
  • Update to GNOME 2.14
  • Update to OpenOffice.org 2.0.2.1
  • Lots of minor bugfixes
  • Create a howto about upgrading from the previous stable release

• A few statistics since 0.3:

  • 4186 changes
  • 732 new packages
  • 302 fixed bugs

• For who haven’t followed the changes in the pre/rc releases, the most important changes:

El Equipo de Desarrolladore de Frugalware tiene el placer de anunciar la disponiblidad de Frugalware 0.4rc2-i686, the last release candidate of the 0.4-i686 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.4rc1-i686:

• Nuevas mejoras:

  • Better support for changing between opensource and proprietary ATI/NVIDIA drivers.
  • All packages have been reviewed to work perfectly with X.Org 7.0.
  • Various spelling fixes in the configuration tools.
  • Fixed font settings for non-English users.
  • Reworked the mirror mechanism to ensure that the iso images are available on all mirrors at release time.
  • More than 60 new packages: freenx packages + knx (tutorial), lighttpd, sword, thunderbird-locale-switcher, katapult and much more!

• Updates: As usual, Frugalware comes with the latest version of upstream stable releases, including:

El Equipo de Desarrolladore de Frugalware tiene el placer de anunciar la disponiblidad de Frugalware 0.4rc1-i686, the first release candidate of 0.4-i686.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.4pre2-i686:

• Nuevas mejoras:

  • Created a package synchronization client and daemon (syncpkg and syncpkgd) to update packages faster on arches other than i686 (x86_64 and later ppc).
  • Implemented fwcpan, a new tool to install any cpan module, just like it would when you install it with the pacman.
  • Split OpenOffice, now all language packs and dictionaries can be installed/removed separately.
  • More than 80 new packages: Xgl (with a step by step howto), beagle, fvwm-crystal, cdcat, klamav, kcheckgmail, xvidcap, synaptics, rt2500, rdiff-backup and much more!

• Updates: As usual, Frugalware comes with the latest version of upstream stable releases, including:

El Equipo de Desarrolladore de Frugalware tiene el placer de anunciar la disponiblidad de Frugalware 0.4pre2-i686, the second technical preview release of 0.4-i686.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.4pre1-i686:

• Nuevas mejoras:

  • Libificated pacman to meet our needs, and the newborn pacman 3 has become the default package manager.
  • Network configuration has been redesigned, now we support various network profiles, and much more network parameters (hardware address, multiple ip addresses on a single interface, etc) than before.
  • Created a new, more verbose documentation.
  • Switched to udev as the default hotplug multiplexer.
  • Bugfix: now automounting for usb sticks works fine, not only for CDs or DVDs.
  • More than 100 new packages - on client side: wepdecrypt, konversation, ltp, gtkpod, firefox extensions, etc.
  • New server side packages: xen (with dom0 and domU kernels), darcsweb, rails, perl modules and much more!

• Behind the scenes: