The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.4pre2-i686, the second technical preview release of 0.4-i686.
A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.4pre1-i686:
New features:
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.
The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.4rc1-i686, the first release candidate of 0.4-i686.
A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.4pre2-i686:
New features:
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.
The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.5rc2, the second release candidate of the upcoming 0.5 stable release.
A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.5rc1:
Updated GNOME to 2.16 Release Candidate (2.15.92) ~300 bugfixes Updated KDE and GRUB artwork More than 30 new packages: ntfs-3g, avifile, gnome-sharp and much more! Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.
Download for i686:
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.
The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.6pre1, the first technical preview release of the upcoming 0.6 stable release.
A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.5:
New features: All installed-by-default packages are now built using gcj/ecj, javac is only provided as an alternate compiler. Installing from a USB stick is now supported. Added PHP documentation for 23 languages. Updates: Linux 2.6.18 with a much improved SATA layer and a few new drivers GNU C Library 2.
The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.6rc2, the second release candidate of the upcoming 0.6 stable release.
A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.6rc1:
Improvements: Updated the documentation: obsolete parts are removed, new parts are written, it is more than two times longer than it was till now. Finished the artwork update, it is now homogenous again. Updated the translations of the installer Package updates: GCC 4.
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.
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 0.8pre1, the first technical preview of the upcoming 0.8 stable release.
A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.7:
Package updates: Linux 2.6.23 + fixes GNU C Library 2.7 GCC 4.2.2 espgs is now replaced with the stock ghostscript compiz-fusion replaced beryl, most users now can avoid XGL more than 600 other upstream updates more than 100 new packages, including 20 new games New features: Added FUN (Frugalware Update Notifier), which resides in the user’s system tray and notifies if an update is available.
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In this issue we welcome a new release of Frugalware, put the ‘Windows’ key to good use in Gnome, reveal a bug in previous newsletters and more.
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