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The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.1rc1, the first release candidate of the 0.1 release. For a list of improvements since the beginning, please refer to the Frugalware Change Log. Frugalware 0.1rc1 can be downloaded by visiting the download page.

seems to work… ;-)

Two arcticles are published about Frugalware Linux. The first is an interview on jox.hu, a hungarian IT page. The article is available from here (only in Hungarian). The second is on Distrowatch.com. The Distrowatch staff chose the Frugalware Linux to the “Featured distribution of the week”. They spent some time to install and evaluate other, well-known Linux distributions and decided to give our distro that title. You can read this article here.

Before upgrading to 8.2 version of postgresql, dump your databases. The new version is incompatible with the older one.

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.1, our first stable release. A short list of improvements and fixed bugs since rc2:* improvements: + added support for using a separate /boot partition + moved all removable media entries from /mnt to /media + updated kde to 3.3.1 new packages: strace openbox, obconf, and their dependencies irssi lmsensors nano hunspell screen centericq fixes: got xdm to work setup:

OSDir installed a Frugalware 0.1 to a test machine and took 78 pictures during installation, wich can be found here.

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.2rc1, the first release candidate of the upcoming 0.2 stable release. A short list of most important improvements and fixed bugs since 0.2pre2:* updates: + updated GNOME to 2.10.0 + updated KDE to 3.4.0 + updated Linux kernel to 2.6.11 + Firefox (+language packs) and Thunderbird updated to 1.0.2 + Xfce updated to 4.2.1 new packages: new openoffice.

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.

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.3rc2-i686, the second release candidate of the upcoming 0.3-i686 stable release. A short list of most important improvements and news since 0.3rc1-i686:* Improvements: + Setup: added PPPoE support, added Polish translation, now the whole installation process' log saved to the installed system. + New wireless packages: madwifi, wlan-ng, etc. Package highlights: More than 60 new packages: gprsec, squid, privoxy, tor, weechat and more!

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.4pre1-i686, the first technical preview release of 0.4-i686. A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.3-i686: New features: Rewritten setup from scratch in C. The new framework will allow to implement a graphical installer, too. Added lots of new features to the setup, such as expert and normal mode, ignoring (non fatal) errors. Added several translations to the setup.