Any downsides?

kmoffat · 10-20-2006, 10:49 PM

What's "tapping"?

Duster · 10-20-2006, 11:20 PM

tapping is every time you touch the touch pad it left clicks . . . Very very annoying feature to me

bullinchinashop · 10-21-2006, 08:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Duster

thoughts after working with Zenwalk for 1.79 ish days

Netpkg is about as buggy (in different ways though) as openSuse 10.1's Was when 1st released. Netpkg keeps crashing, do 2 at a time to be stable . . .

the Network config is useless, unless you have 1 ethernet card only. Forget wifi added in there (I can't figure out how to add it in - had to write a shell script)

I did not know better on 1st install, NUM LOCK SUX on notebooks, Don't do it. Something is very buggy, and it will not disable even after updates.

Ok, here is a wine for my cheese.
To change the time I actually had to do date -s <hour:minutes>
I could not change the time by clicking on it.

Now.
It is MUCH faster then openSuSE 10.1 on my old Athlon 4 laptop. While I don't have all my favotite "tools" - it's a different distro - I'm over it. I did install Midnight commander though from there updater.

Still playing, but I have alot of work to do, so play time is over. i still can not use if for what I need as my Suse laptop is nice and stable, still trying to figure out Zenwalk.

Also - this is in general to all distros I tried

TAPPING SUCKS!!! Friends don't let friends use tapping . . . I need to figure out how the heck to disable this in Zanwalk, but that is for later.

My biggest problem was with netpkg too. That thing is garbage. God it sucks! It crashes it freezes. I had to hard reset my computer a couple of times because of it freezing up.

AtomicAmish · 10-21-2006, 08:47 AM

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Originally Posted by bullinchinashop

My biggest problem was with netpkg too. That thing is garbage. God it sucks! It crashes it freezes. I had to hard reset my computer a couple of times because of it freezing up.

netpkg was recently somewhat replaced by gslapt, which is more polished. See this thread:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=486954

If you don't want to use netpkg, just follow JP's directions in the first post of that thread. It's only one command and you're done. gslapt will then show up under System in the Zenwalk menu.

Duster · 10-21-2006, 01:04 PM

Those were my thoughts. My goal was not to just Bad Mouth the distro - hey it works, and faster on that old laptop than Suse is. Here is one weird thing, I installed Gnome on Zenwalk and the Netpkg is very stable now. I don't know why - but it is. I plan (After a midterm tuesday) to see if I can remove Xfce now that I have Gnome up and running great. I also am trying to see (may have to be over winter break - I am getting killed this semester) if I can compile Gnome-terminal and gedit into Zenwalk.

Also I did download gslapt - I have to figure out how to use it yet. I am more used to yum and smart updaters. After using SuSE 10.1 for a little over a year, I have gotten very used to smart.

Does anyone know of a write up on gslapt? I am sure I have the man file (Sorry on my suse box at the moment), but they are often not as "good" as a tutorial.

ahaslam · 01-07-2007, 06:00 AM

I must say that this is the best distro that I've ever used on my laptop, but as others have said everything has its drawbacks. The main one for me is when it comes to installing/updating from the repository. You'll have to check the changelog, remove any mentioned apps, go to init3, etc. OK it requires a little extra effort, but then it goes and installs an additional dependency, only telling you afterwards. This is the only thing that annoys me, I have no problem if something else is required, but I want to know before netpkg goes ahead and installs it.

If they could improve Netpkg to automatically remove redundant apps, not require switching to init3 for updates & informing the user of additional dep's, it would be perfect for me

guth · 01-07-2007, 08:01 AM

it's not required to update in init3, i personally do it rarely.

We recommend it when you have to update one of:
xfce
xorg
desktop

It's just to prevent people having (possible) troubles with apps not showing up, ... thoses problems exists on any distro. It's just some (most) of them don't say it to anybody.

For the other things you mentioned some of them are in progress... (i can't say more for now

) they aren't tagged "top priority" though.