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10-09-2008
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100% of reviewers
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None indicated
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10.0
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supersize
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Description:
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1. Modern and user-friendly distribution. Comes with latest stable software, selected applications. Latest pidgin and other packages can be found in default installation/repositories.
2. Fast and optimized for performance capabilities for i686-architecture and comes with Xfce desktop.
3. Only one mainstream application for each task and not loaded with heavyweight softwares. For, office productivity- Abiword, Gnumeric. For multimedia - GMplayer, grip, Gnomebaker, Audacious. For file-sharing - Transmission, gFTP. For Internet- firefox, Thunderbird. No duplicate softwares for particular task, so not much spaces are needed.
4. Complete development, desktop and multimedia environment. Loaded with all the required libraries, multimedia codecs, chosen softwares.
5. The best feature is without any doubt - simple network package management tool - netpkg. Dependency resolve is available. simple command to run. Robust.
If you love Slackware, but don't want hassles of source-compilation, try Zenwalk. You'll fall love with it.
Absolutely FREE!
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zenwalk xfce simple fast slackware-based
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10-09-2008, 06:55 AM
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Registered: Aug 2007
Distribution: Slackware (mainly) and then a lot of others...
Posts: 833
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 10
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Pros:
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everything
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still have to find any
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Dude,
This is a serious distro. I can say this is the most complete linux that comes on a cd.
My thanks to the Zenwalk team for this amazing little distro.
BTW :- Why is this not showing up on the front page of distros ?
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