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$ lynx -dump http://ftp.frugalware.org/pub/archive/frugalware-0.1/ChangeLog.txt|tail -n 7
Wed **Jun 16** 14:42:01 CEST 2004, by VMiklos
- Changelog: initial release
...

$ date
Sat **Jun 16** 13:14:49 CEST 2007
                        

Cheer, dance, party!

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.

Please refer to the Frugalware ChangeLog for more information.

The sixth issue of our fortnightly newsletter has been released! You can read it here. We hope you like it!

I’m pleased to announce our new i686 buildserver, called yugo.
The server is working well, you can see the syncpkgd results here.
I’d like to thank everyone who offered to donate!

Trackerless torrents for Frugalware’s ISO can be found here.

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.7pre1, the first technical preview release of the upcoming 0.7 stable release.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.6:

• Improvements:
  • The package manager (pacman-g2) now supports checking the integrity of your database.
  • A LiveCD called FwLive is now available for this prerelease.
  • A new web interface has been added to help translating Frugalware. See the documentation for more information.
  • Support for XOrg 6.x has been dropped.
• Setup:
  • New Romanian and Swedish translations.
  • The keyboard layouts are now sorted.
• Package updates:
  • Linux kernel 2.6.21
  • GCC 4.2.0
  • GNU C Library 2.6
  • Pidgin replaced Gaim, the external plugin packages have been updated accordingly.
  • A new XULRunner package has been added and all GNOME apps that have depended upon Firefox for HTML rendering have been rebuilt against XULRunner.
  • OpenOffice.org 2.2 + updated localizations + updated dictionaries
  • More than 100 new packages

Please refer to the Frugalware Testing ChangeLog for more information.

The fifth issue of our fortnightly newsletter has been released! You can read it here. We hope you like it!

The fourth issue of our fortnightly newsletter has been released! You can read it here. We hope you like it!