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Frugalware Linux
Image:Frugalware.png
OS family Linux
Working state Current
Source model Open source
Latest stable release 0.9/ September 9, 2008
Package manager Pacman
Supported platforms i686, x86-64
Kernel type Monolithic kernel
License Various
Website www.frugalware.org

Frugalware Linux is a general-purpose Linux distribution, designed for intermediate users, who are familiar with command-line operations. It is based on Slackware, but uses a different package management system, Pacman.[1]

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Aims

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.

History

Frugalware was founded by Miklós Vajna. He considered Slackware's package manager pkgtools too slow, and wanted to rewrite it in C. He was told that it would never be accepted by Slackware, so Vajna started to think about founding a separate Linux distribution. He replaced Slackware's original package manager, init scripts and build system. As a result, Frugalware was born.[2]

Package management

Since version 0.6 Frugalware has used Pacman-G2 package manager.[3] It is a fork of a CVS version of the complete rewrite of Pacman by Aurelien Foret, which was not officially released at the time.[4] Previously Frugalware used a modified version of the older, monolithic Pacman by Judd Vinet.

Frugalware's packages' extension is .fpm.[5] The packages are tar archives that are compressed using bzip2,[6] not gzip like the packages used by Pacman of Arch Linux.[7] Bzip2 archives have smaller file size but longer unpacking-time compared to gzip archives.

Repoman is a tool to compile source packages and automatically create and install closed-source packages.[8] With Repoman, the user can also download all packages' buildscript and recompile them with specific build options. The build options can be changed by editing a configuration file.[5] The first Frugalware release that had Repoman was Frugalware 0.3pre1.[8]

Branches

Frugalware has a -current and a -stable branch. The -current branch is updated daily, and the -stable branch gets updated every 6 months.[6]

Architectures

Frugalware currently supports x86 and x86-64 microprocessor architectures.[6] The x86 packages are optimized for i686 processors, and the 0.3pre1 was the first release that also had an x86_64 port.

Releases

According to the Frugalware development roadmap, the next stable version "Anacreon" is going to be released on March 10, 2009.[11]

All the Frugalware releases except "Genesis" have been named after planets in science fiction books by Isaac Asimov.[11]

Live USB

A Live USB of Frugalware can be created manually or with UNetbootin [12].

References

  1. ^ "Interview with Frugalware Linux Developer, VMiklos" (HTML). Open Addict. Archived from the original on 2007-07-14. Retrieved on 2008-02-27.
  2. ^ "Interview with Miklós Vajna, Frugalware Linux" (HTML). DistroWatch. Retrieved on 2008-03-26.
  3. ^ "Frugalware 0.6 (Terminus) Changelog" (TXT). Frugalware Project. Retrieved on 2008-02-27.
  4. ^ "Pacman-G2" (HTML). Frugalware 0.9 (Solaria) Documentation. Frugalware Project. Retrieved on 2008-10-14.
  5. ^ a b "Creating new packages" (HTML). Frugalware 0.9 (Solaria) Documentation. Frugalware Project. Retrieved on 2008-10-14.
  6. ^ a b c "About Frugalware" (HTML). Frugalware 0.9 (Solaria) Documentation. Frugalware Project. Retrieved on 2008-10-14.
  7. ^ Ladislav Bodnar (2003). "Interview with Judd Vinet" (HTML). DistroWatch. Retrieved on 2008-02-27.
  8. ^ a b "Frugalware 0.3pre1-i686 released" (HTML). Frugalware Project. Retrieved on 2008-02-27.
  9. ^ "Frugalware 0.3-i686 released" (HTML). Frugalware Project. Retrieved on 2008-02-27.
  10. ^ "Frugalware 0.3-x86_64 released" (HTML). Frugalware Project. Retrieved on 2008-02-27.
  11. ^ a b "Frugalware Roadmap" (HTML). Frugalware Project. Retrieved on 2008-10-12.
  12. ^ [1]

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