Zenwalk
Linux is a
lightweight desktop oriented originally based on the Slackware
distribution. It aims to
be fast and user friendly. Zenwalk comes with many specialized tools,
designed for all types of users.
There are four versions of Zenwalk available
to download:
Zenwalk -
(469 MB ISO) -
Installs to the hard disk and is intended for mainstream desktop use
Zenwalk Core
- (230MB ISO) - A
purely console distribution (i.e no X server)
Zenserver -
(263MB ISO) - A
server based distribution using Lighttpd as the default webserver,
security minded permissions, console based, kernel patched with the
GRSecurity patch.
ZenLive -
(473MB ISO) - A
LiveCD which replicates a Zenwalk Standard
installation while at the
same time adds many other features. It focuses on multimedia,
gaming, networking, development, and system tools.
Both Zenwalk and ZenLive use Xfce
as the default desktop environment,
with neither the popular but heavyweight GNOME
nor KDE
environments
being installed by default. However, there is an extra
repository
available which does include KDE
3.5.6 as well as OpenOffice.
Zenwalk 5.0 Key
Facts
Developer:
Zenwalk
Price:
Free to
download
Released:
18
January 2008
Installation
Media:
CD (1)
Architectures
supported:
386, 486,
586, 686, AMD
x86-64; Zenwalk is optimized for the i686 instruction set
Package
Management:
netpkg
package
management tool. Developed in-house it uses Slackware's .tgz package
format with dependency resolution abilities.
About Zenwalk Linux