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.
+ Added several adesklet applet package.

• Package highlights: More than 120 new packages: kdebluetooth, kismet, lives, fuse, muttng amavisd-new and more!

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!

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. If you find a bug, report to us. Please include as many details as possible in the bugreport! Thank you.

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".
+ Our build system now supports more than one architecture which means you can expect an x86\_64 preview release soon.
+ All packages got their group, so that if you installed only a base system, you can install all network-related packages with pacman -S network and so.
+ Created a new config tool: wificonfig, to configure your wireless connection.
+ The KDE menu changed a bit: now most installed non-kde applications should apper in the menu, too.
+ Localized Thunderbird and added localized spellcheck support.
+ The gimp-print printer drivers replaced with the foomatic ones, wich means we support much more printers now.
+ Packaged the rox desktop environment.
+ New web [interface](http://frugalware.org/packages.php) for viewing informations about packages.
+ Now all package has it's own changelog, which can be viewed from for example the packages page.

• Package highlights: More than 150 new packages: windowmaker applets, firestarter, pure-ftpd, subversion and more.

Two arcticles are published about Frugalware Linux. The first is an interview on jox.hu, a hungarian IT page. The article is available from here (only in Hungarian). The second is on Distrowatch.com. The Distrowatch staff chose the Frugalware Linux to the “Featured distribution of the week”. They spent some time to install and evaluate other, well-known Linux distributions and decided to give our distro that title. You can read this article here.

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.)
  • raggle (A console RSS aggregator, written in Ruby.)
  • lsof (Displays information about files open to Unix processes.)

• fixes:

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: