Monday, June 20, 2011

Frugalware Linux 1.5 Pre 2


Miklós Vajna has announced that the second test release of Frugalware Linux 1.5, a general-purpose distribution featuring the Pacman package manager and a large online software repository, is out and ready for testing: "The Frugalware developer team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.5pre2, the second technical preview of the upcoming 1.5 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since 1.5pre1: Package updates - Linux kernel 2.6.39, LibreOffice 3.4, KDE 4.6.4; the boot splash is now provided by Plymouth; i686 and x86_64 kernels can now boot from EFI, however, the bootloader is not yet installable from setup; in addition to EFI support, GPT partition tables are now enabled, GPT fdisk is the recommended partitioner for this." Here is the brief release announcement. Download: frugalware-1.5pre2-i686-dvd1.iso (4,261MB, SHA1).

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