Zenwalk
Zenwalk Linux ( formerly Mini varnish ) is a compiled in France Linux distribution which is based on Slackware. Its focus is on weight loss, ease of use and the use of the latest stable software. The distribution used by default Xfce as a working environment. In Germany Zenwalk was first properly known as the Version 2.6 in July 2006 on the cover CD of the magazine Linux User was available.
Zenwalk is not to be confused with Zen Linux, a now-defunct Live CD Linux distribution, based on Debian GNU / Linux.
- 3.1 Core Edition
- 3.2 Live Edition
- 3.3 zenserver
- 3.4 ZenEdu
Special
Zenwalk is kept very slim; the standard and live editions are even only 202 MB in size only approx 620 MB Core Edition. For comparison: Slackware is distributed on three CDs or a 3.6 GB DVD. Is achieved the low memory requirements by only one program is available to a software category included each, but others can be installed from the Zenwalk repository later. In previous releases, waives the lot of memory, the OpenOffice.org office suite and Abiword and Gnumeric instead supplied. Zenwalk Linux 6.0 instead contains a lightweight version of OpenOffice.org 3.0.
Newer Zenwalkversionen rely solely on the GTK toolkit version 2, other toolkits like GTK or Qt version 1 are not present in the default installation. The Xfce desktop is the default supplemented by many GNOME programs. GNOME and KDE can be subsequently also fully install version 6.4 there own version with Openbox as a window manager. Zenwalk used as one of the few distributions LILO as the boot loader, with version 6.2 was switched to GRUB 2.
Software Features
Zenwalk Linux 6.0 (Standard Edition) includes following the installation include the following packages:
- Text processing: OpenOffice.org Writer
- Spreadsheet: OpenOffice.org Calc
- Pdf file viewer: Evince
- Image editing programs: GIMP
- Picture viewer: gThumb
- Media: Goobox ( CD-player/ripper ) Brasero ( burning software ), Totem (video ) Exaile (Audio )
- Web browsers: Iceweasel
- E -mail program: icedove
- Instant Messenger: Pidgin
- BitTorrent Client: Transmission
- More: Geany ( Integrated Development Environment ), lshw ( Hardware Information )
The latest official software packages are published in the snapshot directory. Only after sufficient tests of the software to program error, the packets are moved to the current directory. The Zenwalk Standard Edition includes only packets from the current directory.
Configuration
The product philosophy is similar to Slackware in tighter execution; there are no graphical tools used during installation, commercial programs are not included on the media and the configuration must be manually under certain circumstances, be adjusted without configuration utilities. Software packages will be installed Slackware tgz typical in format.
Netpkg
Zenwalk uses the package manager netpkg, which downloads software packages from repositories and - unlike Slackware's package manager - resolves dependencies of the software. The local installation of packages is done using installpkg as under Slackware, as well as the package manager is gslapt supported since version 4.0.
Wicd
The configuration of mobile network connections takes place through the written in Python tool wicd.
History
The Linux distribution was initiated under the name Mini paint in May 2004 by Jean -Philippe Guillemin and changed with version 1.2, which was released in August 2005, in Zenwalk. With version 3.0, Zenwalk provides for the first time from its own automounter. This indicates the insertion of optical media (CDs, DVDs). Both used since version 2.4 udev daemon, which automatically mounts the devices The central configuration tool Zenpanel held in version 4.2 in the distribution feeder. The containing since version 1.1 in-house package manager netpkg, got a graphical interface in version 4.0 and has been completely redesigned in version 5.2. Furthermore, the programs Firefox and Thunderbird for licensing reasons were in version 4.8 replaced by the well-kept by the Debian project packages iceweasel and icedove. Version 5.0 was further improvement of wireless support by the wifi radar was replaced by wicd. From version 6.2 was changed from ext3 to ext4 as the default file system.
More versions
Zenwalk 7.2, based on compatible Linux kernel 3.4.8 and Slackware 14.0, is current as of October 12, 2012 in five different editions for download: Standard Edition, Core Edition, Live Edition, Edition Gnome, Openbox Edition.
Core Edition
The Core Edition was created by a fork of the standard edition and will be developed in parallel. It includes a Zenwalk system without a graphical user interface. It is intended for users who want to create their desktop or server system customization or have only a very small space on your hard disk.
Live Edition
The live CD edition of Zenwalk (formerly zenlive ) based on the respective current Standard Edition and was formed in July 2006. Zenwalk live CD can be installed on the hard drive since version 5.0 using the Zen installer. Zenwalk Live CD is different from other live CDs where it contains all the necessary libraries and applications that are needed to produce software itself and to compile and LiveClone, a program with which one 's own needs adapted version of the Create system and lets mastering as an ISO file.
Zenserver
The server version (current version: 0.5, released on 14 June 2007) is a derivative of this Zenwalk with optimized kernel. Its development has been discontinued.
ZenEdu
ZenEdu is an on Zenwalk snapshot based live CD containing both software for educational purposes as well as computer games.
On Zenwalk based distributions
- Zencafe, a distribution for Internet Cafes