The distro contains GNOME 3.2 and KDE SC 4.2 desktops

Feb 13, 2012 08:19 GMT  ·  By

Miklós Vajna proudly announced on February 12th, the immediate availability for download of the Frugalware 1.6 (Fermus) Linux operating system.

"The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.6, our sixteenth stable release. No new features have been added since 1.6rc2, but 93 changes have been made to fix minor bugs." - was stated in the official announcement.

Highlights of Frugalware 1.6:

· Linux kernel 3.1.10; · X.Org Server 1.11.2; · GNOME 3.2; · KDE SC 4.7; · LibreOffice 3.4.5.2; · Mozilla Firefox 10.0; · Hybrid i686 and x86_64 ISOs; · Added CPUpower to easily configure CPU power management; · Removed UEFI/EFI support from i686; · The installer uses UUIDs when generating the /etc/fstab file; · Added fw32 to maintain an i686 chroot on x86_64; · HAL has been replaced by udisks; · initrd is used for i686 and x86_64; · Added the Cinnamon desktop environment; · fwlive is much more usable. Download Frugalware 1.6 right now from Softpedia.