Frugalware Linux是一份獨立開發的通用桌面Linux發行，它面向中級用戶。它遵循了Slackware風格的簡潔設計理念，并且包括了來自Arch Linux的pacman包管理實用工具:

Miklós Vajna has announced the availability of the first preview release of Frugalware Linux 1.2, a general-purpose community distribution for intermediate users: "The Frugalware developer team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware Linux 1.2pre1, the first technical preview of the upcoming 1.2 stable release. A short and incomplete list of changes since 1.1: 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; package updates - Linux kernel 2.6.31 + fixes, GNOME 2.28, OpenOffice.org 3.1.1, Mozilla Firefox 3.5.4, more than 900 other package updates, More than 70 new packages." Here is the brief release announcement. Download: frugalware-1.2pre1-i686-dvd1.iso (4,277MB, SHA1).

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