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2007-03-08 Development Release: Frugalware Linux 0.6 RC2
Miklós Vajna has announced the second and final release candidate of Frugalware Linux 0.6: "The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.6rc2, the second release candidate of the upcoming 0.6 stable release. A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.6rc1: updated the documentation: obsolete parts are removed, new parts are written, it is more than twice longer than it was till now; finished the artwork update, it is now homogeneous again; updated the translations of the installer; GCC 4.1.2 with changes to correct regressions from previous releases; GNOME 2.18.0 RC1 with cool features, important bug fixes, great translations; more than 30 new packages." Please see the release announcement for further information. Download: frugalware-0.6rc2-i686-dvd1.iso (4,250MB, MD5).
2007-02-15 Development Release: Frugalware Linux 0.6 RC1
The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.6rc1, the first release candidate of the upcoming 0.6 stable release. A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.6pre2: "Improvements: brand new GDM theme, which has many improvements over previous themes; many packages recompiled to take advantage of new features in glibc 2.5 and GCC 4.1. Package updates: GNOME 2.17.90 with several bug fixes and speed enhancements; Xfce 4.4 with many new features and numerous bug fixes; Beryl 0.1.99.2 with many usability, speed and reliability improvements; added a package for VirtualBox, a free opensource virtualization program; kernel 2.6.20 with KVM virtualization support and many speed enhancements; KDE 3.5.6; WINE 0.9.29 bringing stability improvements; 45 new packages." More details in the release announcement. Download: frugalware-0.6rc1-i686-dvd1.iso (4,250MB, SHA1).
2007-01-10 Development Release: Frugalware Linux 0.6 Pre 2
The second pre-release of Frugalware Linux 0.6 is ready for testing: "The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.6pre2, the second technical preview release of the upcoming 0.6 stable release. A short list of changes since 0.6pre1: new features in the installer, such as improved error handling and faster installation; added KDE support to fw-xgl-control and Beryl; Gnome-mount, a replacement for pmount in GNOME resulting in more reliable and flexible auto-mounting in GNOME; GNOME 2.17.3 with new features and bug fixes; Xfce 4.4 RC2; Beryl 0.1.3 with lots of new eye-candy effects; dhcpcd 3.0, resulting in more reliable network auto-configuration...." More details in the release announcement. Download: frugalware-0.6pre2-i686-dvd1.iso (4,239MB, SHA1).
2006-11-09 Development Release: Frugalware Linux 0.6 Pre 1
Miklós Vajna has announced the first pre-release build of Frugalware Linux 0.6, code name "Terminus": "The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.6pre1, the first technical preview release of the upcoming 0.6 stable release. New features: all installed-by-default packages are now built using gcj/ecj, javac is only provided as an alternate compiler; installing from a USB stick is now supported; added PHP documentation in 23 languages. Updates: Linux 2.6.18 with a much improved SATA layer and a few new drivers; GNU C Library 2.5 with support for the new ELF hash table format; Mozilla Firefox 2.0 with improved tabbed browsing and inline spell checking; Xfce 4.4rc1; KDE 3.5.5 with KHTML improvements and support for sudo in kdesu...." Read the release announcement for further details. Download (SHA1): frugalware-0.6pre1-i686-dvd1.iso (4,261MB).
2006-09-13 Distribution Release: Frugalware Linux 0.5
Frugalware Linux 0.5 has been released: "The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.5, our fifth stable release. Here are the most important changes since 0.4: up-to-date packages: GNU C Library 2.4, GCC 4.1.1, KDE 3.5.4, X.Org 7.1, OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 (a native version for x86_64 users, too); security support: as of Frugalware 0.5, security support is provided until the release of the stable Frugalware 0.6; created a new tool called ’setup’ to collect the available configuration tools; localized the package manager (French, German and Hungarian translations are available); installer improvements...." Read the rest of the release announcement for more details. Download (SHA1): frugalware-0.5-i686-dvd1.iso (4,265MB) or frugalware-0.5-x86_64-dvd1.iso 4,195MB).
2006-09-01 Development Release: Frugalware Linux 0.5 RC2
Miklós Vajna has announced the second release candidate of Frugalware Linux 0.5, the last development build before the stable release, expected at the end of September: "The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.5rc2, the second release candidate of the upcoming 0.5 stable release. A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.5rc1: updated GNOME to 2.16 Release Candidate (2.15.92); ~300 bugfixes; updated KDE and GRUB artwork; more than 30 new packages: ntfs-3g, avifile, gnome-sharp and many more!" Here is the brief release announcement. Download (SHA1): frugalware-0.5rc2-i686-dvd1.iso (4,264MB).
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