We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the x86_64 port of Frugalware 0.3. Frugalware 0.3-x86_64 is now a full-featured port of Frugalware, with almost all of the packages that are available on i686. What does not work currently? OpenOffice.org Official flash plugin (from Macromedia) Dosemu If you can, please test it. If you find a bug, report to us. Please include as many details as possible in the bugreport!

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.3-i686, our third stable release. A short list of most important improvements and news since 0.3rc2-i686:* Improvements: + Setup: added spannish translation. + GNOME updated to 2.12.1 Updates: As usual, Frugalware comes with the latest version of upstream stable releases, including: Linux kernel 2.6.13.3 GCC 4.0.2 Thunderbird 1.0.7 Please refer to the Frugalware ChangeLog for more information.

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.3rc1-i686, the first release candidate of the upcoming 0.3-i686 stable release. A short list of most important improvements and news since 0.3pre2-i686:* Improvements: + Setup: added XFS support, and now you can configure the source of packages (install from a custom mirror or HDD) + Added mbrola and hunspell language packs. + New stats-generator packages: webalizer, munin, etc.

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of 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!

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.

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of 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".

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.2, our second stable release. A short list of the most important improvements and bugfixes since 0.2rc2:* updates: + Mozilla Suite to 1.7.7 + MPlayer 1.0pre7 new packages: irda-utils (Utilities for infrared communication between devices) frugalrledit (Runlevel Editor for Frugalware Linux.) fixes: added patch to binutils to ignore as_needed libs that were not needed Please refer to the Frugalware ChangeLog for more information.

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.2rc2, the second (and last) release candidate of the upcoming 0.2 stable release. A short list of the most important improvements and bugfixes since 0.2rc1:* updates: + updated GNOME to 2.10.1 + Firefox (+ language packs) updated to 1.0.3 + updated Linux kernel to 2.6.11.7 + updated glibc to 2.3.5 new packages: bk-client (The Open Source BitKeeper Client) xemacs (A highly customizable open source text editor and application development system.

KDE 3.4.0 packages are ready! You can read the announcement here. You can read about the new features here. Packaging changes since 3.3.2: Changing groups: If you want to install only the core kde packages, use ‘pacman -S kde-core’, if you want additional packages (k3b, krusader, etc) use ‘pacman -S kde’. kde-i18n packages are in the ’extra/locale’ group. New packages: kde-i18n-br, kde-i18n-fy, kde-i18n-ga, kde-i18n-lt, kde-i18n-mk, kde-i18n-se Removed packages: kde-i18n-af, kde-i18n-el, kde-i18n-fa, kde-i18n-gl, kde-i18n-hr, kde-i18n-mn, kde-i18n-ms, kde-i18n-uz, kde-i18n-zh_TW