Zenwalk Talk

[bonzodog]

Just to say, I have switched to Zenwalk Linux now, as I missed the Slackware way of doing things.
It uses Xfce 4.3.9 Beta for it's desktop, and is based on Slackware 10.2. It comes with a lot less software than Xubuntu, and only has a tiny repo, so most progs are compile from scratch, but I find that in Slackware and it's derivatives, this is very painless, and gives you an app uniquely tuned to to your system.
It has a package system, called netpkg, and uses the traditional .tgz binary packages that slack does. I tend to find that most slack packages work on Zen, and there is a very good site for them called Linuxpackages.net.
It is very good and I think, much faster than Xubuntu, as it uses the BSD init, and is a lighter distro, weighing in at just 400MB for the ISO.
If you ever feel like trying something else, have a look at this.

http://www.zenwalk.org/

[rai4shu2]

Zenwalk is great. I set that up on a notebook computer, and it works nicely. I really like how incredibly light it is.

[tseliot]

Do you find it faster than Arch Linux?

[K.Mandla]

Do you find it faster than Arch Linux?

I thought Arch faster than Zenwalk. I didn't keep Zenwalk around for long, just because it couldn't find my NIC and I didn't have the patience to figure out why.

Arch is the fastest I've found yet, but I haven't taken the time to try Gentoo or SourceMage, which I hear are even speedier.

[FredB]

There is a new zenwalk version available, the 2.6 one. I will try it as a live CD, in order to see if the slack feeling is still there !

[bonzodog]

Actually 2.8 will be out soon, according to JD (the main developer). It contains a number of updates, but be careful of the gdm package- it's malfunctioning and missing ALL it's themes.

[FredB]

Actually 2.8 will be out soon, according to JD (the main developer). It contains a number of updates, but be careful of the gdm package- it's malfunctioning and missing ALL it's themes.

What ? 2.6 was out a few days ago. Faster than light, so

[RAV TUX]

I have decided to start a series of threads specifically for technical help for other Distros...the Distro is listed in the thread title. This is primarily for Ubuntu users who test or use other distros and feel most comfortable seeking help in our own community. In no way does this superceed the help you should also be getting from the perspective Distro., in fact I encourage you to be as active in their forums as you are here and post ideas, knowledge and solutions here to provide a reference point to share, reference links are encouraged.

***Zenwalk Tech Talk***

Threads merged:

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=205480
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=231269

[DJiNN]

I've just installed the latest version of Zenwalk (2.8 i believe) on a spare machine, and it's "Wicked Fast!"..... this is an old PIII Celeron 1000 with 192 meg of standard PC100 Ram & a Matrox 20gb HD.....

Previously i was running Xubuntu, which i really loved, but had some probs due to duff memory (I think) lost the whole install, tried to install again & the Xubuntu install just crashed everytime from then on (& not just the Xubuntu one either... Dapper refused to install as well)

Anyway, after much mucking about & trying to get a distro on that was similar to Xubuntu (Lean & fast) i decided to try Zenwalk..... & i'm glad that i did..... it's REALLY VERY GOOD. It's just soooo quick i can't believe it. (Can you tell that i'm impressed?)

Hopefully this will give me a chance to step outside of the Debian camp (Which i love) & start to learn a little about the "Slack" way of doing things......

Anyway, thanks for reading & if anyone's thinking of giving Zen a try..... go for it!

DJiNN

[slimdog360]

Ive just started using zenwalk, I really like it so far but I have one problem. I cant seem to get the plugins for Abiword, the plugins are not in the repos and I cant find a source package for them. Can anyone help?