OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/21117/Zenwalk_6_0_Released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:14:18 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Still no 64-bitness http://osnews.com/thread?352595 http://osnews.com/thread?352595 The first time I used ZenWalk was (I believe) when its 4.0 version came out (late 2006). It was the first time I'd really used XFCE (before that I had used fluxbox extensively). I was impressed by the use of XFCE and migrated most of my systems from fluxbox. The folks at ZenWalk have done a great job making the UI clean, minimal, and crisp.

While ZenWalk 6 touts XFCE 4.6, much under the hood hasn't changed in very disappointing ways.

The included kernel and all applications are still only available in 32-bit variety. While not really a problem, when 8GB of RAM is Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Vlad) Comments Excellent News http://osnews.com/thread?352607 http://osnews.com/thread?352607 Excellent news. Zenwalk is great for my preferred hardware (i.e. old PCs rescued from work).

It continues the Slackware KISS principle with just enough automation to make staying up to date easy. Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (B12 Simon) Comments RE: Still no 64-bitness http://osnews.com/thread?352609 http://osnews.com/thread?352609
All in all, if you really want a XFCE based Linux distribution on your modern hardware, go with Xubuntu

Ha ha ha, very funny.
Seriously, if you don't like XFCE and prefer GNOME but you still want to have XFCE installed and tuned to feel and act like GNOME, install Xubuntu. Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (spiderman) Comments It's a shame.. http://osnews.com/thread?352622 http://osnews.com/thread?352622 It's a shame that it doesn't work with VirtualBox.
There is a problem with the vesa driver and I've read that installing the guest additions can fix the problem, but that doesn't work either. Guess the latest kernel version isn't supported.Edited 2009-03-11 11:31 UTC Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (xnoreq) Comments nice! http://osnews.com/thread?352646 http://osnews.com/thread?352646 Well...I must say that this the best Zenwalk release so far. I can tell right away that this baby runs a lot faaaaaaaastttttter than Fedora, Ubuntu or any other distro on my laptop.

There are several things that can be improved and they have been mentioned already in the Zenwalk forums.
XFCE works beautifully as always.

Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE are awesome distros too but are a heavier for me. If you are looking for something lighter, this is the one.

But overall, it is the fastest distro so far, boot up time takes about 20 seconds ony laptop instead of 45 sec, it is simple and snappier.

Honestly, for me, the best linux distro at this moment. Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (2501) Comments So distro releases are 1st page news again? http://osnews.com/thread?352681 http://osnews.com/thread?352681 nt Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (B. Janssen) Comments RE: So distro releases are 1st page news again? http://osnews.com/thread?352682 http://osnews.com/thread?352682 http://stoplinux.org.ru/static/zenwalk_6_review.html Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Luca1) Comments RE[2]: So distro releases are 1st page news again? http://osnews.com/thread?352693 http://osnews.com/thread?352693 Hey, dude, let it all out. It's not a shame to be afraid sometimes. Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (B. Janssen) Comments RE[2]: Still no 64-bitness http://osnews.com/thread?352985 http://osnews.com/thread?352985 Why is it funny? Fri, 13 Mar 2009 05:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Vlad) Comments RE[2]: So distro releases are 1st page news again? http://osnews.com/thread?353078 http://osnews.com/thread?353078 stoplinux? HahaHaha. Congratulations on being just as incredibly lame as all the Windows-hating sites. Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Soulbender) Comments RE[2]: So distro releases are 1st page news again? http://osnews.com/thread?353101 http://osnews.com/thread?353101 I'm not sure if it was google translate, but I found the article amusing. Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (aaronb) Comments Rocks on Netbooks! http://osnews.com/thread?353171 http://osnews.com/thread?353171 Hi,

I've been using OpenSuse, because it worked with most HW out-of-the box, but Zenwalk works even better (and faster)!

Here is the new winner!

Install: works out of the box!
Web cam: works out of the box!
WLAN: works out of the box!
LAN: works out of the box!
Card reader: needs tinkering (look for wiki articles on Aspire One) Sat, 14 Mar 2009 09:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (reez) Comments