For those of you that use the current branch of Frugalware, nVidia and ATI binary drivers are currently broken due to the upgrade to Xorg 7.1. Specifically, fonts do not display at all on screen. There are 2 solutions to this problem - either downgrade all Xorg packages, or switch to using the open source Xorg drivers for your card in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. (ati and nv). Note that Frugalware 0.5pre1 is not affected unless you have run pacman -Syu since installation.

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.5pre1, the first technical preview of the upcoming 0.5 stable release for the i686 architecture.

A short and incomplete list of the more than 3000 changes since 0.4:

• Updates:

  • GNU C Library 2.4
  • GCC 4.1.0
  • KDE 3.5.2
  • More than 300 new packages

• New features:

  • Created a new tool, called ‘setup’, to summarize the available configuration tools. (screenshot)
  • Localized the package manager. (currently German and Hungarian language support available)
  • Added Brazilian and Indonesian translation to the setup.

• Known problems:

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.4 for the i686 and x86_64 architectures, our fourth stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.4rc2-i686:

• Updates:

  • Update to Linux 2.6.16
  • Update to GNOME 2.14
  • Update to OpenOffice.org 2.0.2.1
  • Lots of minor bugfixes
  • Create a howto about upgrading from the previous stable release

• A few statistics since 0.3:

  • 4186 changes
  • 732 new packages
  • 302 fixed bugs

• For who haven’t followed the changes in the pre/rc releases, the most important changes:

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.4rc2-i686, the last release candidate of the 0.4-i686 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.4rc1-i686:

• New features:

  • Better support for changing between opensource and proprietary ATI/NVIDIA drivers.
  • All packages have been reviewed to work perfectly with X.Org 7.0.
  • Various spelling fixes in the configuration tools.
  • Fixed font settings for non-English users.
  • Reworked the mirror mechanism to ensure that the iso images are available on all mirrors at release time.
  • More than 60 new packages: freenx packages + knx (tutorial), lighttpd, sword, thunderbird-locale-switcher, katapult and much more!

• Updates: As usual, Frugalware comes with the latest version of upstream stable releases, including:

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.
  • Split OpenOffice, now all language packs and dictionaries can be installed/removed separately.
  • More than 80 new packages: Xgl (with a step by step howto), beagle, fvwm-crystal, cdcat, klamav, kcheckgmail, xvidcap, synaptics, rt2500, rdiff-backup and much more!

• Updates: As usual, Frugalware comes with the latest version of upstream stable releases, including:

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.
  • Created a new, more verbose documentation.
  • Switched to udev as the default hotplug multiplexer.
  • Bugfix: now automounting for usb sticks works fine, not only for CDs or DVDs.
  • More than 100 new packages - on client side: wepdecrypt, konversation, ltp, gtkpod, firefox extensions, etc.
  • New server side packages: xen (with dom0 and domU kernels), darcsweb, rails, perl modules and much more!

• Behind the scenes:

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.
  • The init script system was redesigned: more user-friendly error messages, now uses gettext for translations.
  • More than 100 new packages: treewm, octave, toolame, mingw, ddd, tellico and much more!

• Updates: As usual, Frugalware comes with the latest version of upstream stable releases, including:

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! Thank you.

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 0.3rc2-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!