What's new in Frugalware Linux 1.6 RC2:

January 30th, 2012

Package updates:

· Linux kernel 3.1.10
· LibreOffice 3.4.5
· ~100 updated packages
· 27 new packages

New features:

· New cpupower (LWN article) and perf packages
· kmod replaced module-init-tools

Fixes:

· The installer now handles network timeout errors
· Documentation updates

What's new in Frugalware Linux 1.6 Pre2:

December 19th, 2011

Package updates:

· Linux kernel 3.1
· XOrg server 1.11.2
· KDE SC 4.7.4
· Firefox 8.0.1
· Chromium 16.0.912.63
· Blender 2.60
· 1.1.0 release of the core EFL component

New features:

· All services used by the default installation now have native systemd units
· Installer images now use isohybrid on x86, separate USB images no longer provided.
· Chrony is now the default NTP client.
· /boot/grub/menu.lst and /etc/fstab now contains UUID's on new installs

What's new in Frugalware Linux 1.5 RC2:

August 1st, 2011

Package updates:
· Linux Kernel 2.6.39.3
· XOrg server 1.10.3
· LXDE updated (lxsession-lite-0.4.6,lxpanel-0.5.7,lxlauncher-0.2.2,lxterminal-0.1.10...)
· 1.0.1 release of the core EFL libraries
· Mozilla Firefox 5.0.1
· 245 packages updated
· 20 new packages

New features:
· Our Vim package gained Python nsupport.

What's new in Frugalware Linux 1.5 Pre1:

April 19th, 2011

Package updates:
· Linux kernel 2.6.38
· Gnome 3.0
· KDE 4.6
· Firefox 4.0
· XFCE 4.8 with some bug fix releases (4.8.1), see here the details brought by this version.
· 1.0 release of the core EFL libraries (details)

New features:
· systemd is now the default init system
· Initial ARM port
· XFCE now has lcdfilter for fonts like GNOME
· Full package archive is now available on DVD only, instead we offer a smaller (~200MB-sized) CD for installing a base-only system.

What's new in Frugalware Linux 1.4 RC1:

January 10th, 2011

Package updates:

· Linux 2.6.36.2
· Firefox 3.6.13, Chromium 10.0.616.0
· Midnight Commander 4.7.5

New Features:

· New LCD font rendering available in GNOME. If you use digital video output, this will improve font appearance.
· OSSv4 has been added. Feel free to try it out if you have issues with ALSA.
· systemd is now available as an alternative of sysvinit.

What's new in Frugalware Linux 1.3:

August 23rd, 2010

· Updated packages: Linux kernel 2.6.35, Xorg server 1.8, GNOME 2.30, KDE 4.4.5 to name a few major components.
· For the first time in the history of Frugalware Linux, we're offering an official graphical netinstall image, search for the "-gui" suffix on the ftp mirrors.
· This time we've verified that no workaround is needed to install this release in VMware and because of this, the relevant note is removed from the documentation.
· The monolithic configuration of XOrg is now split to the xorg.conf.d directory. You can still use the monolithic config, but the config files in the new directory have priority. XOrg now also uses udev to detect your hardware automatically, /etc/X11/xorg.conf is no longer generated by default.
· Updated image libraries: libjpeg 8 and libpng 1.4. While adding support for these new libraries, we touched 1500+ packages, doing various minor fixes and improvements.

What's new in Frugalware Linux 1.3 RC2:

August 9th, 2010

Improvements and fixes:

· The included new Linux 2.6.35 kernel comes with various new drivers and features (summary).
· Fixed the USB installer, the image we shipped in 1.3rc1 was missing a working bootloader on it.
· Fixed the KDE artwork.
· A candidate of the 1.2 to 1.3 upgrade guide is now available.

Package updates:

· Linux 2.6.35
· Mozilla Firefox 3.6.8, Chromium 6.0.472.14 with vp8 support
· Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.1
· 429 package updates
· 46 new packages

What's new in Frugalware Linux 1.2:

March 8th, 2010

· Up to date packages: Linux kernel 2.6.32.8, GNU C library 2.11.1, Xorg 7.5, GNOME 2.28, KDE 4.3.5 to name a few major components.
· KMS (Kernel Mode-Setting) is now enabled by default for Intel and Radeon cards.
· PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is now part of the base system.
· Introduced devtmpfs: you can now exclude /dev from backups, along with /proc and /sys.
· Removed several large games from the install images (CD/DVD) which means one less DVD or 4 less CDs.
· We finally upgraded our KDE (and related) packages to the 4.x branch. The work started back in April 2009 and now we thought it's a good move to merge that testing repository.
· This release comes with Xorg 7.5, see the upstream list of new features.
· We've updated our bluez userspace stack to the 4.x branch, which allowed us to improve both GNOME and KDE bluetooth support.

What's new in Frugalware Linux 1.2 RC1:

February 8th, 2010

Improvements:
· We finally upgraded our KDE (and related) packages to the 4.x branch. The work started back in April 2009 and now we thought it's a good move to merge that testing repository.
· Updated artwork.

Package updates:
· KDE 4.3.5
· GNU C Library 2.11.1
· Mozilla Firefox 3.6
· Thunderbird 3.0.1
· More than 400 other package updates
· More than 100 new packages

What's new in Frugalware Linux 1.1:

September 7th, 2009

· Up to date packages: Linux kernel 2.6.30.5, GNU C library 2.10.1, Xorg 7.4 with xorg-server 1.6, GNOME 2.26.3, XFCE 4.6.1, GCC 4.4.0 to name a few major components.
· Major review in the documentation: numerous grammatical fixes and various extensions.
· An x86_64 flash plugin is now part of the default installation.
· Etoile is now part of the repository, see this post for more details.
· Major update on the graphical installer (fwife), see the changelog here and there.
· Packaged android-sdk, for those who want network access from Frugalware through their Android phones.
· Just a FYI in case you are using the ext3 filesystem, which is our current default: though we ship the latest stable kernel, we did not switch the default value of the 'data' option to 'writeback', the feature which still makes ext3 seem more robust than ext4 at the time of writing. See here for more information.
· New artwork includes a new wallpaper and a new Gnome theme.

What's new in Frugalware Linux 1.1 RC1:

August 4th, 2009

Improvements:

· Etoile is now part of the repository, see this post for more details.
· Major update on the graphical installer (fwife), see the changelog here and there.

Package updates:

· Linux kernel 2.6.30.3
· GnuTLS 2.8
· More than 400 package updates
· More than 100 new packages

What's new in Frugalware Linux 1.1 Pre 2:

July 7th, 2009

Improvements:

· An x86_64 flash plugin is now part of the default installation.
· Just a FYI in case you are using the ext3 filesystem, which is our current default: though we ship the latest stable kernel, we did not switch the default value of the 'data' option to 'writeback', the feature which still makes ext3 seem more robust than ext4 at the time of writing. See here for more information.

Package updates:

· GNU C library 2.10.1
· Linux kernel 2.6.30
· Xorg 7.4 with xorg-server 1.6
· GNOME 2.26.3
· Xfce 4.6.1
· GCC 4.4.0
· More than 980 package updates
· More than 100 new packages

What's new in Frugalware Linux 1.1 Pre 1:

May 12th, 2009

· The Frugalware developer team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.1pre1, the first technical preview of the upcoming 1.1 stable release.A short and incomplete list of changes since 1.0: The installer is built with debug support by default for the pre-releases to help bug reporters; major review in the documention - numerous grammatical fixes and various extensions; package updates - Linux kernel 2.6.29.2 + fixes, GNOME 2.26, Mono 2.4, more than 800 other package updates, more than 70 new packages.

What's new in Frugalware Linux 1.0:

March 22nd, 2009

· The version number 1.0 does not indicate anything really special, the new release will bring as many new features and bug fixes as usual, but it's still a milestone in the development of the last five years. Here are the most important changes since 0.9 in no particular order: support for ASUS Eee PC models; new PPC port (though security support will not be available for this architecture in this release cycle due to lack of resources); support for having a 32-bit chroot on x86_64; having '/boot' on a RAID1 device is now supported; gService, a new graphical tool for enabling and disabling services; Java plugin on x86_64; support for the ext4 file system.

What's new in Frugalware Linux 1.0 RC2:

March 8th, 2009

Improvements:

· Updated the graphical installer (more info here and here).
· Updated the artwork.

Fixes in the setup:

· Fixed the detection of wireless cards (it asked for ESSID for wired interfaces as well).
· Fixed GRUB installation when /boot is on RAID1.
· Handle existing home directories for new users.

Package updates:

· Linux kernel 2.6.28.7 + fixes
· KDE 3.5.10
· PHP 5.2.9
· More than 150 other package updates
· More than 20 new packages

What's new in Frugalware Linux 1.0 RC1:

February 22nd, 2009

· experimental support for the ext4 file system;
· Java plugin for x86_64 architecture;
· gService - implemented a brand new graphical runlevel editor;
· package updates - Linux kernel 2.6.28 + fixes, Python 3.0, GNOME 2.24.3, OpenOffice.org 3.0.1, Mozilla Firefox 3.0.6;
· more than 500 other package updates and more than 90 new packages.

What's new in Frugalware Linux 1.0 Pre 2:

January 13th, 2009

· support for having /boot on a RAID1 device;
· improved support for detecting network card names;
· serial ports are now owned by the 'dialout' (instead of 'uucp') group;
· for Virtual Box users the kernel module is now a separate package to stop wasting bandwidth and time;
· for Pidgin users, an alternative MSN support has been provided in case the default one has problems, the package is called 'msn-pecan';
· package updates - Mono 2.0.1, Python 2.6.1, GNOME 2.24.2, more than 800 other package updates, more than 100 new packages.

What's new in Frugalware Linux 1.0 Pre 1:

November 4th, 2008

· The Frugalware developer team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware Linux 1.0pre1, the first technical preview of the upcoming 1.0 stable release. A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.9: the first Frugalware installer front-end landed in the package repository, yes, a graphical one, initial 'ppc' port, it has been actively tested on Apple boxes: iBook/Power Macintosh models, but IBM hardware is not yet supported; support for having a 32-bit chroot on x86_64 has now arrived; this release should install and run fine on ASUS Eee PC models; package updates - Linux 2.6.27 + security fixes, GCC 4.3.2, GNOME 2.24.1, OpenOffice.org 3.0.

What's new in Frugalware Linux 0.9:

September 9th, 2008

· The Frugalware developer team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.9, our ninth stable release. No new features have been added since 0.9rc2, but about 40 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 0.8: up to date base system - Linux kernel 2.6.26, glibc 2.8 and GCC 4.3.1; updated desktop packages - GNOME 2.22, OpenOffice.org 2.4.1 and Firefox 3.0.1; setup - improved support for machines with multiple network cards, the USB installer is now easier to start, fixed/documented installation in VirtualBox and VMware; improved graphical tools - FUN (update notifier) now supports news notifications.