El Equipo de Desarrolladore de Frugalware tiene el placer de anunciar la disponiblidad de Frugalware 0.3pre2-i686, the second preview of the upcoming 0.3-i686 stable release.

A short list of most important improvements and news since 0.3pre1-i686:* Improvements:

+ Ivman replaced submount, which is no longer installed by default.
+ Setup: Now Frugalware can be installed to a software RAID partition.
+ Added French language support to the installer.

• Package highlights: More than 180 new packages: abiword, nvu, ndiswrapper, kaffeine, chkrootkit and more!

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the x86_64 port of Frugalware 0.3pre1.

Frugalware 0.3pre1-x86_64 is a native 64-bit system, which means we don’t use multilib. (For example because of this, you have to use our gplflash package instead of the usual flashplugin.)

What works?

• base system :-)
• the graphical system’s core
• desktop environments: KDE, Xfce and GNOME

What does not work currently?

• OpenOffice.org (we are working on it and we have promising results)
• I18n: Firefox, Thunderbird, KOffice

If you can, please test it. If you find a bug, report to us. Please include as many details as possible in the bugreport! Thank you.

There’s a new review about Frugalware over at tuxmachines. Also you can find there 65 screenshots, too.

Three more articles are published in online IT newspages about Frugalware Linux. The first can be read on th Newsforge site here (the article is also available on Linux.com, here), written by Eduardo Romero. The other two articles are reviews from different point of view. The first review is readable on linuxquestions.org. The other review is avialable on distrotalk.net.

El Equipo de Desarrolladore de Frugalware tiene el placer de anunciar la disponiblidad de Frugalware 0.3pre1-i686, the first preview of the upcoming 0.3-i686 stable release.

A short list of most important improvements and news since 0.2:* Improvements:

+ Added a new tool: repoman. It helps you to compile packages from source, allowing to automatically create and install closed-source packages like realplayer or skype (repoman merge packagename). Also it allows you to download all package's buildscript (repoman update) and recompile them with your compiler flags, "a la Gentoo".
+ Our build system now supports more than one architecture which means you can expect an x86\_64 preview release soon.
+ All packages got their group, so that if you installed only a base system, you can install all network-related packages with pacman -S network and so.
+ Created a new config tool: wificonfig, to configure your wireless connection.
+ The KDE menu changed a bit: now most installed non-kde applications should apper in the menu, too.
+ Localized Thunderbird and added localized spellcheck support.
+ The gimp-print printer drivers replaced with the foomatic ones, wich means we support much more printers now.
+ Packaged the rox desktop environment.
+ New web [interface](http://frugalware.org/packages.php) for viewing informations about packages.
+ Now all package has it's own changelog, which can be viewed from for example the packages page.

• Package highlights: More than 150 new packages: windowmaker applets, firestarter, pure-ftpd, subversion and more.