Are You Afraid Of Linux? Zenwalk!
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Hellbreather
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I used Zenwalk before moving to SUSE I'm hoping to use Ubuntu soon.
I would highly recommend Zenwalk for "newbies" or people afraid to try Linux.
Hellbreather.
I would highly recommend Zenwalk for "newbies" or people afraid to try Linux.
Hellbreather.
dragon2309
P.I Dragon
I cant quite see how people qould be afraid to try it, if they are they're pretty dumb. The first linux distro i ever tried was Redhat 9 Enterprise Fedora Core, i ran that for about a year, i now run Ubuntu 6.06 and despite a few problems with my wireless card, ti works amazingly well and is damn sexy too.
Just for the record ive never heard of Zenwalk before
dragon
I just heard the name for the first time when seeing the newsletter from the Linux forum I've been on at times. But being rather a newbie here I ran a search for it and readily found the main site there. I took one quick look at the online manual there and said to myself "What a difference!". 
I did run Fedora's Core 4 for a time in a dual boot first with 98 and then XP after toying with 3.1 and 95 on a second hard drive. When the old case became a headache and it looked like the old drive quit the new one now serves as host with the old one now seeing a backup for XP primary and now the 1gb root, 2,5gb swap, and 30gb extended for a try at Zenwalk.
The installer is far more modernized if you want to put in those terms to make it easy to install along with a friendlier desktop. When I get it going here I'll see what others things make it look better then Knoppix.
I did run Fedora's Core 4 for a time in a dual boot first with 98 and then XP after toying with 3.1 and 95 on a second hard drive. When the old case became a headache and it looked like the old drive quit the new one now serves as host with the old one now seeing a backup for XP primary and now the 1gb root, 2,5gb swap, and 30gb extended for a try at Zenwalk.
The installer is far more modernized if you want to put in those terms to make it easy to install along with a friendlier desktop. When I get it going here I'll see what others things make it look better then Knoppix.
I already have it on cd-r ready to go. Make the burning software makes a bootable disk with the iso image. The first attempt here with Roxio saw only a data disk( argh!) that saw the usual failure to detect disk or missing operating system message. 
! It's a lot smaller then Red Hat's Fedora for sure. Besides the 409mb iso mentioned here there's an xserver version as well. I forgot to mention that earllier. 
! Only 2 not 3 or 4 partitions needed! But a good 30gb extended never hurts.
! It's a lot smaller then Red Hat's Fedora for sure. Besides the 409mb iso mentioned here there's an xserver version as well. I forgot to mention that earllier. ! Only 2 not 3 or 4 partitions needed! But a good 30gb extended never hurts.You still will have to get accustomed to Bash commands there in order to use the Linux type of command prompt. The one thing that catches you the most with this one is the almost XP/Vista style desktop seen at the main page. The program list opens on the right side rather then what you see on other distros as well as Windows. That was a little different to see for a change!
I,ll give it a try, downloading now, wonder if it will run on a Athlon XP 3000 system ok?
Are you kidding most Linux distros will run on some old "boat anchor" with only 4mb of ram. Linux ran alright when I finally got Fedora running on an XP3200 cpued system. Linux is based primarily on the UNIX structure for pre-286 systems when that was the common... well not quite an OS.
Its the only one I have sitting around right now to just mess with, didnt want to run into a driver nightmare just to check it out! Workin and building computers when I get home, dont have much time to scratch my ass!
I still have to drop the burn in and get the installer going here to see how that works out. Being that it goes right on one cd you won't have to worry about it taking much drive space. The default root is only about 300mb with a 1.5gb swap partition needed. I went with the custom size here to allow another distro to share the same swap. But that will be some time before the next one is chosen. It won't be Red Hat server type there.
Yea being that small I thought I would check it out, never heard of it? Got 15 minutes left and will be downloaded!
When trying to give a rec on an easy distro for newbies you have to remember the titles like Knoppix, Puppy, Darnsmall, Gentoo, unbuntu, Slackware, Gentoo, Debian, SUSe, Mandrake, FreeDos, Mandrake, and Fedora while this one was a switch. the version number itself suggests a new one with the "2,8" seen. The Linux forum started a new section for it. So you know it has to be something recent if not just out.
Motoxrdude
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Another good newbie linux is Blagg 5000. I think its the best linux distro. Its like FC5 but way better! It fits on CD too. It comes with RPM installer, and a lot of other great things that you would never even think to want in a distro.
My Gosh! Another "flavor of the month" already! I'll have to check to see if they have a section on that as soon as I figure out how to get the installer running on this one. Fortunately I downloaded two copies to separate folders. The first write to disk saw 'missing operating system" when booting from it.
You are in the same boat I've been in. Go through the help files or online support for this. That will tell you if bootable cds or dvds can be made with Sonic. Deep Burner may have to be tried here if Roxio used for Linux iso images fails to get a working bootable cd-r here. http://www.deepburner.com/
EDIT: Apparently the original release for Zenwalk 0.1 was on 5/21/04. In conversation with a Zenwalker beta tester the discussion brought up the md5 sum not found at the home site. One person mentioned seeing the same "missing operating system" error until using the Lilo boot loader to this version. So far there things were running well.
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BUMP!
Zenwalker is also available in a live for cd release at http://www.zenlive.tuxfamily.org/ The md5 sum for verification is in the vertical row of links along side the various sites that carry the iso image.
Zenwalker is also available in a live for cd release at http://www.zenlive.tuxfamily.org/ The md5 sum for verification is in the vertical row of links along side the various sites that carry the iso image.
timothyb89
New Member
I'm downloading the Live ISO now.
I have the installer ISO, and I downloaded it a few weeks ago, but I never got around to installing it in VMware (I'm running out of space, anyway).
Also, does anyone know how good the network cards for this is?
I need a distro for an older laptop and this has Xfce (Which, in my opinion, is only bested by KDE) and this one seems to work.
I had thought that it defaulted to KDE before now...
I have the installer ISO, and I downloaded it a few weeks ago, but I never got around to installing it in VMware (I'm running out of space, anyway).
Also, does anyone know how good the network cards for this is?
I need a distro for an older laptop and this has Xfce (Which, in my opinion, is only bested by KDE) and this one seems to work.
I had thought that it defaulted to KDE before now...