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Zenwalk Live For Linux

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The official Live edition of the Zenwalk Linux distribution based on Slackware Linux. #Zenwalk Linux  #Linux distribution  #Live CD  #Zenwalk  #LiveCD  #Zenlive  

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Zenwalk Live is an open source project specifically designed for people who just want to test the Zenwalk Linux distribution before installing it or just use it as-is from a portable media device, such as a USB stick. It is built around the lightweight Xfce desktop environment and designed for low-end systems.

Zenwalk is an open source GNU/Linux operating system derived from the well known Slackware Linux distribution. By default, new Zenwalk releases are distributed only as Installable DVDs, and later available for download as Live DVDs.

The distribution is available for download as a single Live DVD ISO image that can be easily burned to a blank DVD disc using any CD/DVD burning software or written to a USB flash drive using Disks or UNetbootin apps. It can be used on either 32-bit or 64-bit hardware platforms and can be installed to a local disk.

Several languages are supported by the bootable medium, including English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, German, Danish, Czech, Dutch, Hungarian, and Japanese. Users can choose between graphical or text-mode live sessions of the distribution.

As mentioned, Xfce is in charge of the graphical session in this Live edition of the Zenwalk Linux operating system, providing users with a beautiful and modern desktop environment that comprises a top panel for accessing the main menu, launching apps and interacting with running programs, as well as a dock located on the bottom edge of the screen.

Default applications include the Thunar file manager, Geany IDE, GIMP image editor, Geeqie image viewer, GMusicBrowser audio player, ISO Master CD image editor, MPlayer video player, Xfburn CD/DVD burning utility, Gajim instant messenger, Mozilla Thunderbird email and news client, Transmission torrent downloader, gFTP file transfer client, Mozilla Firefox web browser, and LibreOffice office suite.

Summing up, Zenwalk Live is a really great project. It designed from the ground up to be used by people who just want to test the Zenwalk operating system without installing anything on their computers.

What's new in Zenwalk Live 7.4:

  • This is the first Zenwalk Live version that is NOT utillizing an AUFS enabled kernel but instead running unionfs in userspace via fuse on an unmodified Slackware generic kernel!
  • It will also be probably the _last_ Zenwalk Live version supporting 32bit systems and it's gonna be very likely the last Zenwalk Live Edition that I do contribute to the Zenwalk project.
  • Same as in Zenwalk Live 7.2 I decided to feature PAE for supporting more than 4 GB RAM on 32bit, but as a down side Zenwalk Live will not run on Pentium M (which lacks PAE support).
  • Also in order to support additional locales and some extra content the ISO does not fits on a CD-ROM anymore, so same as last time it's a DVD-ROM ISO release again.
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Zenwalk Live 7.4

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