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| 2006-03-30 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Frugalware Linux 0.4 |
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The fourth stable version of Frugalware Linux has been released: "The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.4 for the i686 and x86_64 architectures. A short list of changes since rc2: update to Linux 2.6.16, GNOME 2.14, OpenOffice.org 2.0.2.1. For those who haven't followed the changes in the pre/rc releases, the most important changes: implemented fwcpan, a new tool to install any CPAN module; network configuration has been redesigned; switched to udev as the default hotplug multiplexer; modularized X.Org 7.0, Apache 2.2.0, KDE 3.5.1, Firefox 1.5.0.1, Thunderbird 1.5...." Read the rest of the release announcement on the project's news page. Download the two i386 CD images from here (SHA1): frugalware-0.4-i686-cd1.iso (490MB), frugalware-0.4-i686-cd2.iso (604MB).
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| About Frugalware
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| 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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| 2013-04-08 |
Development Release: Frugalware Linux 1.9 Pre 1 |
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James Buren has announced the availability of the first pre-release of Frugalware Linux 1.9, a general-purpose Linux distribution. This is the first-ever Frugalware release that comes in the form of a live CD/DVD. From the release announcement: "This is the first preview release of Frugalware 1.9. It also marks the first public testing for our new live CD environment, FVBE, and our new installer called fwsetup. This has been in development for 8 months already and is a compilation of 4 older projects. They are fwlive, setup, fwife, and frugalwareutils. In this new project, they are integrated so they will share a common code base. This should help avoid the fragmentation like we had with setup and fwife. The new installer should be feature complete in terms of replacing the old installer. However, some parts were removed because of disuse or just plain uselessness. And some features are entirely new, such as the keyboard layout selection that also configures your X11 XKB layout." Download: fvbe-1.9pre1-full-x86_64.iso (1,862MB, SHA1).
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| 2013-02-06 |
Distribution Release: Frugalware Linux 1.8 |
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James Buren has announced the release of Frugalware Linux 1.8, a general-purpose distribution for intermediate and advanced Linux users: "The Frugalware developer team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware Linux 1.8, our eighteenth stable release. No new features have been added since 1.8rc2, but 157 changes have been made to fix minor bugs. If you didn't follow the changes during the pre-releases, here are the most important changes since 1.7 in no particular order: updated packages - Linux kernel 3.7.5, X.Org Server 1.13.2, GNOME 3.6, KDE 4.9, LibreOffice 3.6.3, Mozilla Firefox 18.0.1 to name a few major components; video decoding acceleration is now enabled in most multimedia applications; CPU scaling should now work out of the box on i686 and x86_64; Mesa 7.11 drivers revived to support hardware that Mesa upstream dropped support for...." Here is the brief release announcement. Download: frugalware-1.8-x86_64-dvd1.iso (4,265MB, SHA1). |
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| 2012-12-10 |
Development Release: Frugalware Linux 1.8 Pre 2 |
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James Buren has announced the availability of the second preview release of Frugalware Linux 1.8, code name "Cinna", a general-purpose distribution designed for intermediate Linux users: "The Frugalware developer team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware Linux 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 - Linux kernel 3.6.6, X.Org 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." Here is the brief release announcement with a link to a more detailed changelog. Those interested in testing the release can download the 64-bit installation DVD image from here: frugalware-1.8pre2-x86_64-dvd1.iso (4,281MB, SHA1). |
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| 2012-08-20 |
Distribution Release: Frugalware Linux 1.7 |
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Frugalware Linux 1.7, the latest version of the general-purpose distribution designed for intermediate Linux users, has been released: "The Frugalware developer team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware Linux 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. Here are the most important changes since 1.6: updated packages - Linux kernel 3.4.8, X.Org Server 1.12.3, GNOME 3.4, KDE SC 4.9, LibreOffice 3.5.4, Mozilla Firefox 14.0.1; slocate was removed and replaced by mlocate; Catalyst has dropped support for all ATI Radeon HD hardware before the 5000 series; cpupower has replaced all CPU scaling daemons; all packages that still used SysVInit have been converted to use systemd; GRUB 0.x has been replaced by GRUB 2...." The release announcement. Download (SHA1): frugalware-1.7-i686-dvd1.iso (4,278MB), frugalware-1.7-x86_64-dvd1.iso (4,284MB).
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| 2012-07-23 |
Development Release: Frugalware Linux 1.7 RC1 |
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James Buren has announced the availability of the first release candidate for Frugalware Linux 1.7, code name "Gaia", an independently-developed general-purpose Linux distribution designed for intermediate and advanced Linux users: "Frugalware 1.7rc1 (Gaia) released. The Frugalware developer team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.7rc1, the first candidate of the upcoming 1.7 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.7pre2: package updates - Linux kernel 3.4.4, GCC 4.7.1, KDE 4.8.4; new features - installer now supports Btrfs as an experimental feature, installer now supports JFS, grubconfig (our front-end to GRUB 2 installation) can now install to itself to RAID1 mdadm and raw drives with a single option. Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information." Here is the very brief release announcement. Download the installation DVD image for the x86_64 processor architecture from here: frugalware-1.7rc1-x86_64-dvd1.iso (4,262MB, SHA1).
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| 2012-06-04 |
Development Release: Frugalware Linux 1.7 Pre 2 |
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James Buren has announced the availability of the second pre-release of Frugalware Linux 1.7, a general-purpose distribution for intermediate Linux users: "The Frugalware developer team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.7pre2, the second technical preview of the upcoming 1.7 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.7pre1: package updates - Linux kernel 3.4.0, GCC 4.7.0, GNOME 3.4.2, KDE 4.8.2, Xfce 4.10, Firefox 12, Thunderbird 12, GIMP 2.8; LightDM has replaced SLiM as default display manager for Xfce; new default wallpaper. Please refer to the Frugalware testing changelog for more information. Don't forget to check the integrity of the install images before burning!" The release announcement. Download (for 64-bit computer systems only): frugalware-1.7pre2-x86_64-dvd1.iso (4,283MB, SHA1).
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| 2012-04-09 |
Development Release: Frugalware Linux 1.7 Pre 1 |
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James Buren has announced the availability of the first pre-release of Frugalware Linux 1.7 (code name "Gaia"), a general-purpose distribution targeting intermediate and advanced Linux users: "The Frugalware developer team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware Linux 1.7pre1, the first technical preview of the upcoming 1.7 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.6: package updates - Linux kernel 3.3, KDE 4.8.1, LibreOffice 3.5.1, Firefox 11.0, Thunderbird 11.0, SeaMonkey 2.8; kernel modules are now compressed with xz; GRUB 2 has replaced GRUB 1; text installer can now install to GPT labels; pm-radeon for setting Radeon KMS power management at start-up; phc package family brings experimental CPU undervolting." Here is the brief release announcement with an additional link to a more complete changelog. Download: frugalware-1.7pre1-x86_64-dvd1.iso (4,250MB).
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| 2012-02-12 |
Distribution Release: Frugalware Linux 1.6 |
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Miklós Vajna has announced the release of Frugalware Linux 1.6, a general-purpose distribution for desktops and servers: "The Frugalware developer team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware Linux 1.6, our sixteenth stable release. No new features have been added since 1.6rc2, but 93 changes have been made to fix minor bugs. Here are the most important changes since 1.5: updated packages - Linux kernel 3.1.10, X.Org Server 1.11.2, GNOME 3.2, KDE 4.7, LibreOffice 3.4.5, Mozilla Firefox 10.0 to name a few major components; i686 and x86_64 ISO images are now hybrid and we no longer build separate USB images for these architectures; cpupower can be used to configure your CPU power management; UEFI/EFI support has been removed from i686; UUIDs are now used by the installer when generating the /etc/fstab for new installs.... Read the remainder of the release announcement for a full list of new features and upgrade instructions. Download (SHA1): frugalware-1.6-i686-dvd1.iso (4,241MB), frugalware-1.6-x86_64-dvd1.iso (4,276MB).
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| 2012-01-30 |
Development Release: Frugalware Linux 1.6 RC2 |
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Miklós Vajna has announced the availability of the second and final release candidate for Frugalware Linux 1.6, a general-purpose distribution designed for intermediate and advanced Linux users: "Frugalware 1.6rc2 'Fermus' released. The Frugalware developer team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware Linux 1.6rc2, the second technical preview of the upcoming 1.6 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.6rc1: package updates - Linux kernel 3.1.10, LibreOffice 3.4.5, 100 updated packages, 27 new packages; new cpupower and perf packages; kmod replaced module-init-tools; the installer now handles network time-out errors; documentation updates. Please refer to the Frugalware testing changeLog for more information." Here is the brief release announcement. Download the installation DVD images from here: frugalware-1.6rc2-i686-dvd1.iso (4,255MB, SHA1).
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