The Frugalware development team would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year !

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.8pre2, the second technical preview of the upcoming 1.8 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.8pre1:

• Package updates:
  • Kernel 3.6.6
  • XOrg Server 1.13.0
  • KDE 4.9.3
  • GNOME 3.6
• New features:
  • cpu scaling on i686 and x86_64 now works out of the box for most hardware
  • cpupower is now only needed if you want to change the default behavior
  • video decoding acceleration libraries have been enabled in most multimedia programs

Note: The ISOs will be a bit late on mirroring. There were some last minute fixes that had to be put in.

It appears that this problem has now been patched in the kernel in current. Thank you for your patience.

Xorg upgrades have been merged to current. There is some manual intervention

required due to strict version depends. You will need to remove some packages

by force before you can complete your next system upgrade. This command should

assist you in this:

pacman-g2 -Rd ffmpeg-compiletime ffmpeg-0.6 ffmpeg-0.6-compiletime

Kernel 3.6.2, which is only in current, has an ext4 data corruption bug.

It was only recently discovered, and was not found by routine testing on

our end. Upstream is working on a resolution, which will be pushed out to

current as soon as they have an official fix that has made it into a new

patch level. The bug is rare, and is reported to manifest only during two

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.8pre1, the first technical preview of the upcoming 1.8 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.7:

• Package updates:
  • Kernel 3.5.4
  • GCC 4.7.2
  • GRUB 2.00
  • systemd 189
  • KDE 4.9.1
• New features:
  • none

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

Download for x86_64: See our mirror list. Don’t forget to check the integrity of the install images before burning!

grub2 2.00 has been merged. It requires some manual intervention to complete

the upgrade, but shouldn’t cause any problems if the upgrade is delayed. For detailed instructions on how to upgrade, please read the development upgrade notes. Thank you.

The systemd 188 merge has left a few packages that must be manually removed before

a successful system upgrade can be performed. This command should help you if you

are encountering this problem in current:

pacman-g2 -R systemd-gtk systemd-plymouth dracut-plymouth plymouth plymouth-theme-frugalware plymouth-theme-glow plymouth-theme-solar plymouth-theme-spinfinity

After this command you can upgrade by proceeding as you would normally. Thank you.

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.7, our seventeenth stable release.

No new features have been added since 1.7rc2, but 157 changes have been made to fix minor bugs. If you didn’t follow the changes during the pre/rc releases, here are the most important changes since 1.6 in no particular order:

• Updated packages: Linux kernel 3.4.8, XOrg server 1.12.3, GNOME 3.4, KDE SC 4.8.4, LibreOffice 3.5.4.2, Mozilla Firefox 14.0.1 to name a few major components.
• slocate was removed and replaced by mlocate
• catalyst has dropped support for all ATI Radeon HD hardware before the 5000 series
• cpupower package has replaced all CPU scaling daemons
• all packages that still used sysvinit have been converted to use systemd
• grub1 has been replaced by grub2
• localtime should now work again

Please refer to the Frugalware Gaia ChangeLog for more information.

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.7rc2, the second candidate of the upcoming 1.7 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.7rc1:

• Package updates:
  • Kernel 3.4.6
• New features:
  • fw32 can now build i686 packages on x86_64. see the README for more information.

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

Download for x86_64: See our mirror list. Don’t forget to check the integrity of the install images before burning!