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Zenwalk Linux is a lightweight Slackware-based distribution featuring the Xfce desktop environment.

 

Zenwalk was a Linux distribution founded by Jean-Philippe Guillemin. It was originally based on Slackware. Since its creation, the distribution has become very different from Slackware in most regards while still maintaining compatibility with its binary packages. Zenwalk aims to be a modern and multi-purpose Linux distribution by focusing on Internet applications, multimedia and programming tools. Additionally, Zenwalk comes with many specialized tools, designed for beginner through advanced users as it offers system configuration via both graphical and command-line operations.

 

 

“Zenwalk Linux 7.4 beta is ready for testing. In this release you will find: LibreOffice 4.1.1, GIMP 2.8.6, Xfce 4.12git, Thunderbird 24.1.0, Firefox 25.0.1, Linux kernel 3.10.20 with performance tweaks. Several applications from previous Zenwalk releases have been replaced: MPlayer is now the multimedia player (instead of Totem), LXDM is the display manager (instead of GDM), Xfburn is the CD/DVD burner (instead of Brasero), Geeqie is now the image viewer. Have fun and please report bugs.“

Zenwalk provide the following characteristics:

 

Modern and user-friendly (latest stable software, selected applications)

Very fast (optimized for performance capabilities)

Rational (one mainstream application for each task)

Complete (full development/desktop/multimedia environment)

Evolutionary (advanced network package management tool – Netpkg)

 

Hardware Requirements

 

Zenwalk GNU/Linux can run on any modern or semi-old computer (Zenwalk is optimized for the i686 instruction set, but backward compatible with i486). These are the minimal hardware requirements to run Zenwalk in Xwindow mode, with correct performance (some lower configs work – ie : PII – , but might be slow) : manual

 

Pentium III class processor

256 Mb RAM

4Gb HDD

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There are five main versions of Zenwalk as of Zenwalk 7.2:

 

Zenwalk Standard is a distribution aimed at mainstream desktop and development use. Designed to be a stand-alone operating system, it installs to the hard drive by way of a ncurses-based installer. It includes all of the officially released software packages that are deemed most useful by the Zenwalk community. The default install also includes development packages like gcc, and some proprietary media packages (such as Adobe Flash Player) and drivers in order to provide a full featured default install. The default desktop environment is Xfce.

 

Zenwalk Core is a Zenwalk system built with customization in mind. Released with no X Window System binaries, its aim is to allow a skilled user to build a system fit for his or her needs. The project’s lead developer is Emmanuel Bailleul.

 

ZenLive is a Zenwalk system built on a Live CD design. ZenLive follows the progress made by the full Zenwalk system closely, thus mirroring the version number, and attempts to stay true to the original distribution’s goals. In addition, it includes all of the necessary libraries and applications to develop and compile software, a particularly rare feature in Live CD distributions. The original ZenLive team left the project after version 6.0 was released but ZenwalkLive project has been revived by an enthusiastic user and is now developed as a one-man-project. Since version 6.4 the live-framework has been changed from deprecated linux-live-scripts to slackware-live-scripts.

 

Zenwalk Gnome has GNOME as the default desktop environment.

 

Zenwalk Openbox is supplied with Openbox as stand-alone window manager. It is a very lightweight version of the operating system. It does not follow LXDE in its choice of software. It still uses Thunar file manager over PC-Man which is standard on LXDE-based systems such as Lubuntu

 

 

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