Zenwalk GNOME Changelog
What's new in Zenwalk GNOME 6.4
Jun 11, 2010- We are proud to announce the release of Zenwalk 6.4 Gnome Edition! As always, Zenwalk features the latest Linux technology, featuring Linux kernel 2.6.33.4 and the Gnome 2.28.2 Desktop Environment.
- The Gnome 2.28.2 desktop includes a number of new features; Totem has an asynchronous parsing API now,
- GNOME Power Manager now has support for laptops with multiple batteries and has added disk spindown support for DeviceKit disks and much more.
- The gnome panel comes back to the origin layout.
- You will find the same software base like the standard edition :
- Pidgin 2.7.0
- Totem 2.28.6
- Brasero 2.28.3
- Goobox 2.1.1
- Geany 0.8.1
- Gedit 2.28.4
- OpenOffice.org 3.2.0
- Gstreamer 0.10.29
- Xorg 7.5
- Others gnome applications are available in the extra repo :
- Soundjuicer 2.28.2
- Tomboy 1.1.0
- Eog 2.28.2
- F-spot 0.6.1.5
- Vino 2.28.1
- Other significant changes in this release are:
- Faster shutdown (the update mime database is done when it is really needed)
- Fixed NTFS auto mount during the installation
- Fixed network browsing (downgraded samba to fix this issue)
- Fixed issue with youtube plugin in totem
- Gnome-system-tools is added. It gives the gnome management easier.
- Gnome-disk-utility is added. It can manage hard drive like Gparted.
- New artwork (Thanks Zwopper)
New in Zenwalk GNOME 6.0 (Mar 22, 2009)
- Faster boot (tuned init scripts, with realtime I/O scheduler)
- New Zenpanel with integrated Disk Manager, Wifi and Wired Network Manager
- Gksu keyring based desktop granting system
- PAM authentication has been added to the system
- New Netpkg with orphan dependencies and "offline operation" support
- The powerful Exaile music jukebox has been added
- Gthumb has replaced gqview and gtkam for viewing images and importing them from your camera
- The lighting PIM extension for icedove is installed by default
- New artwork
- A simplified installer
New in Zenwalk GNOME 5.4 Beta (Dec 29, 2008)
- Kernel 2.6.27.10 with gspca (supports many USB webcams)
- Wicd is now the main network configuration tool
- New Netpkg with orphan dependencies and "offline operation" support
- New Zenpanel with integrated Disk Manager, Wifi and Wired Network Manager
- Gksu keyring based desktop granting system
- Exaile is the main music application, replacing gmusicbrowser and streamtuner
- Gthumb has replaced gqview and gtkam for viewing images and importing them from your camera
- Totem is now based on the gstreamer backend, instead of xine-lib
- Brasero now has DVD-video creation capabilities
- The lighting PIM extension for icedove is installed by default
- gFTP has been removed from the iso, ftp transfers work perfect with nautilus