Frugalware

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**Frugalware Linux**
Frugalware logo
Website:	www.frugalware.org
Company/ developer:	Miklós Vajna
OS family:	Linux
Source model:	Open Source
Latest stable release:	0.5 / September 14, 2006
Kernel type:	Monolithic kernel
License:	GPL
Working state:	Current

Frugalware Linux is a Slackware-based Linux distribution founded by Miklós Vajna. It is a general purpose Linux distribution, designed for intermediate users who are familiar with command-line operations.

1 Philosophy
2 Overview
3 Package Management
4 Branches
5 Architectures
6 Releases
7 See also
8 External links

[edit] Philosophy

Frugalware's developers attempt to make Frugalware as simple as possible while establishing a priority based on comfortable use. Their goal is to ship consistently fresh and stable software, as close to the original source as possible.

[edit] Overview

From the Slackware-Red Hat Linux-Debian trio Miklós was most pleased with Slackware, but that has some serious imperfections: for example the slow package manager, the absence of multilanguage support and the native automatic package update. Frugalware tries to drop nothing from Slackware's advantages (simplicity, speed, etc), while refining it.

[edit] Package Management

Frugalware does not have its own package manager but instead uses Pacman. Frugalware's packages' extension is .fpm to differentiate them from regular tarballs. Starting from 0.3pre1 an extra tool was added: repoman. It helps compile packages from source, allowing automatic creation and installation of closed-source packages. It also allows the user to download all package's buildscript (repoman update) and recompile them with specified compiler flags, "à la Gentoo".

[edit] Branches

Frugalware has a current, a testing and a stable branch. The current branch is updated daily, packages are pushed to testing about every two month, and the stable branch gets updated every 6 months.

[edit] Architectures

Frugalware currently only supports i686 and x86_64. The packages are i686 optimized, and the 0.3pre1 is the first release that also has an x86_64 port. There are plans for a PPC port but this would only be available when the 0.4 is available.

[edit] Releases

0.6 (Terminus)

Nov 9, 2006 0.6pre1

0.5 (Siwenna)

Sep 14, 2006 0.5
Sep 1, 2006 0.5rc2
Aug 17, 2006 0.5rc1
Jul 31, 2006 0.5pre2
May 25, 2006 0.5pre1

0.4 (Wanda)

Mar 30, 2006 0.4
Mar 16, 2006 0.4rc2
Mar 2, 2006 0.4rc1
Feb 2, 2006 0.4pre2
Dec 8, 2005 0.4pre1

0.3 (Trantor)

Oct 19, 2005 0.3-x86_64
Oct 13, 2005 0.3
Oct 4, 2005 0.3rc2
Sep 16, 2005 0.3rc1
Aug 18, 2005 0.3pre2
Jun 23, 2005 0.3pre1

0.2 (Aurora)

Apr 28, 2005 0.2
Apr 18, 2005 0.2rc2
Apr 7, 2005 0.2rc1
Feb 24, 2005 0.2pre2
Jan 10, 2005 0.2pre1

0.1 (Genesis)

Nov 2, 2004 0.1
Oct 11, 2004 0.1rc2
Sep 29, 2004 0.1rc1

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

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