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The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.7, our seventh stable release.

No new features have been added since 0.7rc2, but more than 150 changes have been made to fix minor bugs. If you didn’t follow the changes during the pre/rc releases, here are the most important changes since 0.6:

• Up to date base system: Linux kernel 2.6.22.9, Glibc 2.6.1 and GCC 4.2.1
• Up to date desktop packages: KDE 3.5.7, GNOME 2.20, XFCE 4.4.1, OpenOffice 2.3.0 and Firefox 2.0.0.7
• A LiveCD called FwLive is now available for this release.
• Setup: language-specific defaults (keymap, timezone, default mirror), the installation is now logged.
• Supported new languages: Romanian, Swedish, Italian and Danish.
• New graphical tools: Gfpm (package manager) and Gnetconfig (network configurator).
• Documentation: The Frugalware User Manual is now more than 100 pages: tutorials, tips and tricks.

Please refer to the Frugalware Sayshell ChangeLog for more information.

As of kernel-2.6.22-6 in Frugalware-current, Intel users will have /dev/sd* devices rather than /dev/hd* ones. The reason is the following: It was not possible to boot the kernel on some machines without this change. See this bugreport for more details. So after upgrading using pacman -Syu, you need to:

1. Check if you have an Intel IDE controller using sudo lspci |grep -i intel.*ide. If you got no result then probably you’re not affected.
2. Edit /etc/fstab: change all occurrences of /dev/hd to /dev/sd.
3. Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst: change all occurrences of /dev/hd to /dev/sd in the Frugalware entry.
4. Reboot.

Thanks for your understanding!

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.7rc2, the last candidate of the upcoming 0.7 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.7rc1:

• Package updates:
  • GNOME 2.20.0
  • OpenOffice.org 2.3 with OOXML support and Mozilla plugin
  • More than 1000 changes, mostly bugfixes
• New features:
  • Added Gfpm, a graphical package manager
  • New Gfpm and Gnetconfig plugins for Xfce4 settings manager
• Setup:
  • Fixed PPPoE support
  • Slow format (when checking for bad blocks is enabled) works again for swap partitions
  • Fixed Swedish language support

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.7rc1, the first candidate of the upcoming 0.7 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.7pre2:

• Package updates:
  • GNU C Library 2.6.1
  • Replaced util-linux with util-linux-ng
  • More than 30 new packages
  • Added detailed documentation for the util-linux-ng, amavisd-new and ejabberd packages
  • More than 900 changes: package updates, bug- and security fixes.
• New features:
  • Added permalinks to the documentation
  • Rewritten the package builder daemon, which now supports distributed operation. This results in continuous package updates even if one package builder server is not available.
• Setup:
  • new Danish translation

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.7pre2, the second technical preview of the upcoming 0.7 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.7pre1:

• New features:
  • New graphical configuration tool, Gnetconfig to tweak your network settings.
  • Setup now puts the installer log to the target system, so that the log is not lost.
  • The default timezone and keyboard layout is now language-dependent.
  • New Italian translation in the installer.
• Package updates:
  • Linux kernel 2.6.22 (+ fixes)
  • GCC-4.2.1, with several bugfixes and a usable java browser plug-in for systems where the binary is not available, like x86_64.
  • OpenOffice.org 2.2.1
• New packages:
  • VIM spell-check dictionaries for various languages
  • More than 100 new packages: qmpdclient, gpsdrive, emovix, gpodder, horde-webmail and many more!
• Homepage:
  • It is now possible to browse HTML documentation for a package on the homepage.
  • Replaced darcsweb with gitweb in accordance with the darcs to git change.
• A list of bugs reported after the release of the installer images can be viewed here.

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

The ninth issue of our fortnightly newsletter has been released! You can read it here. We hope you like it!

The eighth issue of our fortnightly newsletter has been released! You can read it here. We hope you like it!

The seventh issue of our fortnightly newsletter has been released! You can read it here. We hope you like it! If you would like to vote on which design you would like to see on the next version of our homepage, read this issue!

$ lynx -dump http://ftp.frugalware.org/pub/archive/frugalware-0.1/ChangeLog.txt|tail -n 7
Wed **Jun 16** 14:42:01 2004 +0200, by VMiklos
- Changelog: initial release
...

$ date
Sat **Jun 16** 13:14:49 2007 +0200
                        

Cheer, dance, party!

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.6a for x86_64. This is a bug fix release to fix various issues that users have encountered with the x86_64 0.6 releases. These new ISOs contain all security fixes since the release of 0.6.

Please note that if you want to use i686, you should still use the original 0.6 ISOs. This release is for x86_64 only.

Please refer to the Frugalware ChangeLog for more information.