Frugalware Linux是一份独立开发的通用桌面Linux发行，它面向中级用户。它遵循了Slackware风格的简洁设计理念，并且包括了来自Arch Linux的pacman包管理实用工具。
Miklós Vajna has announced that the first release candidate for Frugalware Linux 0.9 is now ready for testing: "The Frugalware developer team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.9rc1, the first release candidate of the upcoming 0.9 stable release. A list of changes since 0.9pre2: removed empty documentation files (README, NEWS, etc.) from /usr/share/doc; fixed installation in VirtualBox; replaced Firefox Adblock with Firefox adblock_plus; the ROX environment is now available on x86_64 as well; more than 800 small changes; package updates - glibc 2.8, Firefox 3.0.1, OpenOffice.org 2.4.1, more than 400 other package updates; new packages - dblatex (produces DVI, PostScript, PDF documents from DocBook sources), WxRuby (wxWidgets bindings for Ruby), ten new games, more than 70 other new packages." Here is the complete release announcement. Download (MD5): frugalware-0.9rc1-i686-dvd1.iso (4,239MB).
