14 DAY TRIAL // The Frugalware development team has announced the release of Frugalware 1.2, the 12th stable release of the Linux distribution. Frugalware 1.2 comes with only a number of bug fixes from the second release candidate, but there are some pretty big changes from the previous stable release, Frugalware 1.1. The biggest update is the move to KDE 4 code from the aging KDE 3.5 one, as the software pack was deemed mature enough to make it to the stable release. There are also plenty of package updates.
"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," Frugalware developer Miklós Vajna wrote in the official announcement.
Highlights of Frugalware 1.2:
· 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. · Upgraded KDE (and related) packages to the 4.x branch. The work started back in April 2009 and the developers thought it was a good move to merge that testing repository. · Updated the bluez userspace stack to the 4.x branch, which allowed the developers to improve both GNOME and KDE bluetooth support.
Under the hood of Frugalware 1.2:
· Linux kernel 2.6.32.8; · GNU C library 2.11.1; · Xorg 7.5; · GNOME 2.28; · KDE 4.3.5.
About Frugalware:
Frugalware aims to be a generalist Linux distribution mostly keeping close to the source packages and keeping from making too many customizations. It's intended for the intermediate Linux user, who isn't afraid of employing the terminal, but who generally expects everything to work as it should out of the box.
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