Zenwalk Live 7.0 / 7.2 Beta 2

Zenwalk is a GNU/Linux operating system. Zenwalk is designed with the following objectives:

- Be simple and fast
- Provide one application for one task on the install CD
- Be a complete development/desktop environment
- Be small so that it can be distributed on a single CD


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What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Zenwalk Live 7.0 is based on the sophisticated Slackware-Live-Scripts,
· being the first distribution using the brand new and not yet
· official released version 0.3.3

· Zenwalk Live consists of standard Zenwalk ISO packages following the main
· Zenwalk release with the latest XFCE desktop and applications
· and is shipped with a new artwork theme, additional localization
· packages for icecat/icedove and the nvidia proprietary driver.

· It also comes with full support for inputing and displaying Japanese.

· You'll get the latest stable version software incl. the most recent
· patches and bugfixes that have been released until now.

· It comes equipped with a "live" kernel patched to support aufs2,
· lzma compressed squashfs 4.0, bfs-scheduler and bootsplash.

· With ZenLive 7.0 the "persistent changes" feature is back.
· Also with this release local hard disc drives can now be mounted as
· normal user whitout the need of suing to root.

· It's possible to install the running Live-system to the hard disc drive
· or even transfer the live-CD into a bootable USB stick by using the
· included installer scripts.

Supported boot parameters for ZenLive 7.0 are:

· - copy2ram=yes (to copy live-environment into the RAM and run from there)

· - exclude=MODULE_NAME.lzm (to exclude a non optional module from beeing
· loaded)

· - home=PATH_TO_STORAGE (to store persistent changes onto a local drive or
· file)

· - include=nvidia-new-driver.lzm (to load optional nvidia-driver module)

· - keymap=xx (to use this keyboard layout)

· - locale=xx.UTF-8 (to use this language)

· - rootpw=PASSWORD (to set individual root password and enabling root
· access)

· - runlevel=x (to boot into Runlevel x instead of standard RL4 with Xorg)

· - sli=yes|no (to have the installer script available/unavailable during
· the live session)

· - useswap=yes|no (to enable or disable the usage of local swap
· partition/file if found on the system)