Is it me or did minislack just disappear. There is no site, no tutorials, no guides... nothing.

Can someone please tell me what's going on with this distro, should I even bother with it?


Thank you.

Minislack became Zenwalk. Don't bother with it - use the Real Slackware.

Eric

If you really want a scaled down version of Slackware, please allow me to suggest Slax.

That's a rather blunt way to put it, although I do agree. Still, Zenwalk's not that bad. I tried that before I tried Slackware, the XFCE version they used was quite leaky memory-wise, and their philosophy of one tool/app for one job is seriously flawed, but otherwise it was ok.

But this philosophy only applies to the default installation - and the choices are quite good in my opinion. After installation you can get whatever you want from their repository. After all I think this approach is more useful than having 25 never used console nntp clients or all the latest crap for kde - which you all get with a default slack install. Zenwalk is quite a good alternative to slackware for the not-so-experienced user.

Btw: I never experienced any memory leaks with Zenwalk 5.0.

Hi all,

I tried Zenwalk 5.0 in a moment of frustration with Slackware package management, and I have to say that I was very very impressed. It is quite zippy and recognized all my hardware out of the box. I simply cannot say a bad thing about it.

I came back to Slackware pretty quickly, but I would not hesitate to recommend Zenwalk to a Linux newbie who wants some creature comforts but at the same time have the ability to learn the Slackware way of doing things. Slackware is still there under the hood, package management and all, if you are willing to learn it.

Not everyone coming from Windows can handle Slackware right off the bat, and I think Zenwalk provides a great opportunity for someone to get their feet wet in Linux, and then graduate to Slackware when they are ready for a more challenging and rewarding distro.

Dig