The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.4pre2-i686, the second technical preview release of 0.4-i686.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.4pre1-i686:

• New features:

  • Libificated pacman to meet our needs, and the newborn pacman 3 has become the default package manager.
  • Network configuration has been redesigned, now we support various network profiles, and much more network parameters (hardware address, multiple ip addresses on a single interface, etc) than before.
  • Created a new, more verbose documentation.
  • Switched to udev as the default hotplug multiplexer.
  • Bugfix: now automounting for usb sticks works fine, not only for CDs or DVDs.
  • More than 100 new packages - on client side: wepdecrypt, konversation, ltp, gtkpod, firefox extensions, etc.
  • New server side packages: xen (with dom0 and domU kernels), darcsweb, rails, perl modules and much more!

• Behind the scenes:

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.4pre1-i686, the first technical preview release of 0.4-i686.

A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.3-i686:

• New features:

  • Rewritten setup from scratch in C. The new framework will allow to implement a graphical installer, too.
  • Added lots of new features to the setup, such as expert and normal mode, ignoring (non fatal) errors.
  • Added several translations to the setup.
  • The init script system was redesigned: more user-friendly error messages, now uses gettext for translations.
  • More than 100 new packages: treewm, octave, toolame, mingw, ddd, tellico and much more!

• Updates: As usual, Frugalware comes with the latest version of upstream stable releases, including:

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the x86_64 port of Frugalware 0.3.

Frugalware 0.3-x86_64 is now a full-featured port of Frugalware, with almost all of the packages that are available on i686.

What does not work currently?

• OpenOffice.org
• Official flash plugin (from Macromedia)
• Dosemu

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.

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.3-i686, our third stable release.

A short list of most important improvements and news since 0.3rc2-i686:* Improvements:

+ Setup: added spannish translation.
+ GNOME updated to 2.12.1

• Updates: As usual, Frugalware comes with the latest version of upstream stable releases, including:

  • Linux kernel 2.6.13.3
  • GCC 4.0.2
  • Thunderbird 1.0.7

Please refer to the Frugalware ChangeLog for more information.

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.3rc2-i686, the second release candidate of the upcoming 0.3-i686 stable release.

A short list of most important improvements and news since 0.3rc1-i686:* Improvements:

+ Setup: added PPPoE support, added Polish translation, now the whole installation process' log saved to the installed system.
+ New wireless packages: madwifi, wlan-ng, etc.

• Package highlights: More than 60 new packages: gprsec, squid, privoxy, tor, weechat and more!

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.