Zenwalk Linux 2.4 has been released Posted on: February 19, 2008 at 12:00 AM
Our latest release sports a brand new 2.6.16.1 kernel, and the latest udev, which provides improved support for hotplugging devices - cleaning up the remains of the old hotplug system.
Zenwalk Linux 2.4 has been released
Our latest release sports a brand new 2.6.16.1 kernel, and the latest udev, which provides improved support for hotplugging devices - cleaning up the remains of the old hotplug system. Now that the transition to a full udev is complete, we were also able to remove the discover service. The changes were not limited to the base system though; with the 2.4, a series of updated packages will be released (nearly 130 packages).
About the Zenwalk
Zenwalk is a GNU/Linux operating system, designed to provide the following characteristics.
1. Modern (latest stable software)
2. Fast (optimized for performance capabilities) 3. Rational (one mainstream application for each task)
4. Complete (full development/desktop/multimedia environment)
5. Evolutionary (simple network package management tool - netpkg) There are 2 versions of Zenwalk
Zenwalk (full version ~ 420MB iso download) is a complete system : out of the box, you will be able to browse, mail, chat, listen to music, program in C, Perl, Python, Ruby,.. watch videos in various formats, write documents, print, scan, burn CD and DVD, connect your camera and edit your photographs, without adding anything. Coders will like the full set of development libraries and interpreters.
Zenwalk Core (~ 350MB iso download) is a Zenwalk system without X applications. Zenwalk-core is intended to be used as a starting point to build a custom desktop system or a server system, and for users
with limited space on their disk, or great perfectionists wanting to build their personal desktop system themselves.
Some Feature
1. Kernel(2.6.16.1) 2. gcc(3.4.6), JRE(1.5.0.06), Python(2.4.2),Perl(5.8.8)
3. XFCE(4.3.0), KDE 3.5.1, Gnome-libs(2.14.0), GTK2 (2.8.16)
4. Mozilla-firefox(1.5.1)/thunderbird(1.5), Openoffice (2.0.2), Abiword 2.4.2, Gnumeric 1.6.2 5. Tea 12.0, Bluefish(1.0.4), Leafpad(0.8.6), Vim(6.3)
6. Alsa(1.0.10), Gxine(0.5.4), Xine-lib(1.0.3a), Gnomebaker (0.51)
Some More Important News
As usual, our fast-paced development makes for a distro that is on the edge of things. Our latest release sports a brand new 2.6.16.1 kernel, and the latest udev, which provides improved support for hotplugging devices ? cleaning up the remains of the old hotplug system. Now that the transition to a full udev is complete, we were also able to remove the discover service.
The changes were not limited to the base system though; with the 2.4, a series of updated packages will be released (nearly 130 packages). Amongst them the latest OpenOffice (2.0.2), Abiword (2.4.2.1), Gnumeric (1.6.2), the latest GTK2 (2.8.16), ...
In our continuous search for the best applications for our GTK2-based platform, we have replaced two of our standard packages. Zenwalk 2.4 introduces Gnomebaker and Xarchiver (respectively CD/DVD burner and archive manager) to replace Graveman and File-Roller.
For Download
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