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melloe
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 Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2025 6:58 pm Post subject: Frugalware Linux 1.2 |
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simple Slackware-like design concepts and includes the "pacman" package management utility from Arch Linux.
Distribution Release: Frugalware Linux 1.2
Frugalware Linux Miklós Vajna has announced the release of Frugalware Linux 1.2, a general-purpose, community-built distribution for intermediate Linux users: "The Frugalware developer team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.2, our twelfth stable release. No new features have been added since 1.2rc2, but 62 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 1.1: up to date packages - Linux kernel 2.6.32.8, GNU C library 2.11.1, X.Org 7.5, GNOME 2.28, KDE 4.3.5; 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; upgraded KDE (and related) packages to the 4.x branch...." See the full release announcement for further information. http://www.frugalware.org/news/163
Download http://www.frugalware.org/download
Or torrents at www,distrowatch.com
(SHA1): frugalware-1.2-i686-dvd1.iso (4,283MB, torrent), frugalware-1.2-x86_64-dvd1.iso (4,290MB, torrent).
2010-03-08
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tlmiller
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| I was reading this one earlier today. If they had CD download instead of DVD, I'd DEFINITELY try it out. As is, I might still download it and try it out. Definitely sounds like a good one to me.
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masinick
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| I could definitely see getting Frugalware, hooking it up to CURRENT instead of RELEASE, and then periodically using the Pacman package manager found in Arch to keep a fairly current system. More a matter of time for me than anything else. If I decide to carve out some time, I suspect that I would like this one! |
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melloe
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I did an earlier one. May have it on a box or SATA hot swap here somewhere still <G><
Don't remember overwriting it. Do remember commenting positively on it at the time.
My point? I will definitely try it. ( once I figure out where )
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