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| 2008-08-26 |
NEW • Development Release: Frugalware Linux 0.9 RC2 |
| The second and final release candidate for Frugalware Linux 0.9 is out and ready for testing: "The Frugalware developer team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware Linux 0.9rc2, the second release candidate of the upcoming 0.9 stable release. A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.9rc1: the default vi editor is now Elvis instead of Nvi (as Elvis has fewer dependencies); added crosscompile support to distcc; package updates - Linux kernel 2.6.26 + fixes, GNOME 2.22.3, Git 1.6.0, more than 100 other package updates; new packages - official Synaptics touchpad driver from X.Org, utilities for the HFS+ file system, eight new Drupal modules, more than 20 other new packages." Here is the brief release announcement. Download: frugalware-0.9rc2-i686-dvd1.iso (4,248MB, MD5, torrent). The final release of Frugalware Linux 0.9 is expected on September 9th. |
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| About Frugalware |
| Frugalware Linux is an independently developed general purpose desktop Linux distribution designed for intermediate users. It follows simple Slackware-like design concepts and includes the "pacman" package management utility from Arch Linux. |
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