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.

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.