Comments on: Review: Zenwalk 3.0

By: fairx

fairx — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:09:17 +0000

I’m a new linux user and currently trying many lightweight distro on old my Athlon 800 + 256 RAM.

I tried both Xubuntu Gutsy yesterday & right now I’m typing this on my Zen machine.

IME, Xubuntu is way faster.

By: buitenzorgian

buitenzorgian — Wed, 02 May 2007 15:10:09 +0000

Zenwalk is absolutely flying! I’ve tried several light distros in my AMD K6 450Mhz box with 256 MB RAM. I think Zenwalk become my final choice. Keep working, Zenwalkers!

By: James McCarthy

James McCarthy — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 11:57:45 +0000

Letting christmas fade off to the past and going thru some of my bookmarks…I was here before because I have this blog bookmarked…. But Ido not recognize it, so you must have made some serious changes in the design?

By: swamytk

swamytk — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 07:31:15 +0000

Yes, Joanne. I am trying to sync the look and feel of this with my home page (http://www.karuppuswamy.com – which is under development).

By: Joanne Franklin

Joanne Franklin — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 02:59:25 +0000

By: John

John — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 11:37:36 +0000

kazuya said : “I think although default repo is lacking in certain packages”

The default repos is not the only place to find packages, Slackware community provides a very complete set of packages from various places.

John

By: Noisome

Noisome — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 16:37:32 +0000

Slapt-get is a great tool. Here is a quick script to get it up and running for the newbies.

Just run gslapt or slapt-get. (Under Zenwalk, open your menu, go to system, run GSlapt Package Manager)

Make sure you run this as root or it will not work. (i.e. run ‘su’ from terminal and type in the password then run this script).

[code]
echo 2 > selection
echo 4 >> selection
netpkg select-mirror /etc/slapt-get/slapt-getrc
echo 'EXCLUDE=^kernel-.*,^alsa-.*,^glibc.*,.*-[0-9]dl$,^devs$,^udev$,aaa_elflibs,x86_64' >> /etc/slapt-get/slapt-getrc
echo 'SOURCE=http://download.zenwalk.org/i486/current/packages/' >> /etc/slapt-get/slapt-getrc
echo 'SOURCE=http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/zenwalk/i486/current/packages/' >> /etc/slapt-get/slapt-getrc
echo 'SOURCE=http://www.tuxgames.net/zenwalk/' >> /etc/slapt-get/slapt-getrc
echo 'SOURCE=http://users.zenwalk.org/packages/' >> /etc/slapt-get/slapt-getrc
rm selection
[/code]

Enjoy.

By: kazuya

kazuya — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 21:50:37 +0000

Zenwalk smply rocks. I am yet to find a full fledged distro with xfce that is faster than it and yet as functional. Now they have added gslapt. This was the defacto package manager in Vector linux which is also fast.

Coming from Ubuntu side and still using Ubuntu sometimes, I think although default repo is lacking in certain packages, I find that I can obtain those packages from linupackages.net, or many other places. Even google.

It is almost as easy as finding a windows .exe application file. You type slack vlc package or amarok for slackware, and there it is in google most times or it may direct you to linuxpackages.

By: lebarjoe

lebarjoe — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 12:44:50 +0000

Hello,

I’m agree with the author of this review of zenwalk. You can try frugalware => http://frugalware.org/, it’s almost same of zenwalk but you have more package by default than zenwalk.

Sorry for my bad english (i’m french).

By: sewmyheadon

sewmyheadon — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 19:14:35 +0000

I’ve run both Xubuntu and Zenwalk side-by-side on the same PC (actually dual booting) and Zenwalk was clearly quite a bit faster. I really like the rational approach to packages and find Zenwalk really lacking in nothing for developers.

Linux, in general needs a few more powerful and simple CSS/xHTML editors for web standards in my opinion, but and experienced designer can handle it all through Geany, any text editor, Bluefish, or even Nvu.

Cheers,
eric