Frugalware is a general purpose linux distribution, designed for intermediate users (who are not afraid of text mode).

We try to make Frugalware as simple as possible while not forgetting to keep it comfortable for the user. We try to ship fresh and stable software, as close to the original source as possible, because in our opinion most software is the best as is, and doesn’t need patching.

Yugo: new i686 buildserver

Translations: FR, ES

I’m pleased to announce our new i686 buildserver, called yugo.
The server is working well, you can see the syncpkgd results here.
I’d like to thank everyone who offered to donate!

Frugalware 0.7pre1 (Sayshell) released

Translations: FR, ES

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.7pre1, the first technical preview release of the upcoming 0.7 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.6:

  • Improvements:
    • The package manager (pacman-g2) now supports checking the integrity of your database.
    • A LiveCD called FwLive is now available for this prerelease.
    • A new web interface has been added to help translating Frugalware. See the documentation for more information.
    • Support for XOrg 6.x has been dropped.
  • Setup:
    • New Romanian and Swedish translations.
    • The keyboard layouts are now sorted.
  • Package updates:
    • Linux kernel 2.6.21
    • GCC 4.2.0
    • GNU C Library 2.6
    • Pidgin replaced Gaim, the external plugin packages have been updated accordingly.
    • A new XULRunner package has been added and all GNOME apps that have depended upon Firefox for HTML rendering have been rebuilt against XULRunner.
    • OpenOffice.org 2.2 + updated localizations + updated dictionaries
    • More than 100 new packages

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

Request: IDE HDDs

Translations: FR, ES

Unfortunately we lost our i686 buildserver. But we have changed our main server to a stronger one, so now we have a quiet good machine. Without any hard disks. So we’d like to ask our users to donate us. Till the i686 buildserver is not working, the current repo is not in sync with the x86_64 one.

The needed HDDs:

  • at least one smaller (20-40GB) IDE HDD for system
  • at least one bigger (min. 80-100GB) IDE HDD for build environment

If you have anything to donate, please send a mail to VMiklos (vmiklos at frugalware dot org) or IroNiQ (iron at frugalware dot org) or search for them on Freenode Network at #frugalware channel.

Frugalware 0.6 (Terminus) for i686 and x86_64 released

Translations: FR, ES

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.6, our sixth stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.6rc2:

  • Linux 2.6.20.3
  • We are proud to be one of the first distributions to ship the stable GNOME 2.18
  • Fixed a few bugs in XDM

If you didn’t follow the changes during the pre/rc releases, here are the most important changes since 0.5:

  • Up to date base system: Glibc 2.5, Binutils 2.17.50.0.6 with DT_GNU_HASH support, DBUS 1.0 and Python 2.5
  • Up to date desktop packages: KDE 3.5.6, XFCE 4.4, Beryl 0.2.0, OpenOffice 2.1, Firefox 2.0.0.2 and GNOME 2.18
  • All installed-by-default packages using Java are now built using gcj/ecj, the original binary javac is only provided as an alternate compiler.
  • Setup: speed improvements, support for more custom action, tftp installs and usb sticks are now supported.
  • Full support for Xgl/Beryl in KDE
  • Documentation: it is more than two times longer than it was until now.

Known Issues: