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The new Frugalware 0.8, codename Kalgan, design for the i686 architecture was released, as officially announced by the Frugalware Developer Team. This release is the eighth steady release of Frugalware, with a lot of bug fixes and changes since the release candidate, but there are no new features.

Below are the most important changes since Frugalware 0.7:

• Updated base system: Linux kernel version 2.6.24.3,
• Glibc 2.7 and GCC 4.2.3
• The latest desktop packages: KDE 3.5.9, GNOME 2.20, Xfce 4.4.2, OpenOffice.org 2.4rc2 and Firefox 2.0.0.12
• The Czech language is now supported and, talking about support, Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) is now available, too.
• A brand-new graphical tool, called FUN, for notifying the user about updates, is included. I wonder, will it be fun to use it or not?
• There are more than 4,000 changes, with 251 new packages, 1,729 updated ones and 416 closed tasks.

If you are thinking, installation method is best suited to you, here's a solution to your problem. In case your console cowboy and you want to go through the prairies of the server without X, you need only download the first CD. If you are somewhere in the middle, and you should see some beautiful images, not just text on a black background, you will need to download the first and second CD, and.

In addition, the method of installation CD, a DVD one of the available too, which comes in two DVD. In the advantage of this installation is that it allows fully autonomous installation with language files, and other packages.

The third installation method, which is much more geekish - which is best suited for someone with a lot of patience - than the other two, is Netinstall. This is a small ISO image, only 32 MB, which is able to boot, configure the network and establish a system with the selected packages. They are loaded on the fly as needed. The advantage Netinstall is proposed for the small size of the image, and the disadvantage is the high bandwidth and the time needed to complete the installation.

Download Frugalware 0.8 right now from the following:

• Download #1: Frugalware Linux 0.8 CD1 (ISO) i686 - (652 MB)
• Download #2: Frugalware Linux 0.8 CD2 (ISO) i686 - (664 MB)
• Download #3: Frugalware Linux 0.8 DVD 1 (ISO) i686 - (4179 MB)
• Download #4: Frugalware Linux 0.8 DVD 2 (ISO) i686 - (4179 MB)

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