Zenwalk Linux

Zenwalk Linux (formerly called  "Minislack Linux") is based on Slackware, a robust Linux distribution faithful to the spirit of Unix. Zenwalk is recognized today as one of the fastest distributions available in binary version.

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

There are 5 versions of Zenwalk.

• Standard Edition (full version, ~ 550 MB ISO download):
  Zenwalk's Standard Edition is a complete GNU/Linux operating system for both Desktops and Laptop/Notebook systems but is also easily customizable for use in servers and multimedia centers. Out of the box, you will be able to browse, mail, chat, listen to music, program in C, Perl, Python, Ruby,.. watch videos in various formats, write documents, print, scan, burn CD and DVD, connect your camera and edit your photographs, without adding anything. Coders will like the full set of development libraries and interpreters.
  
  
• Core Edition (~ 285 MB ISO download):
  Core Edition is is a Zenwalk system without X applications. Zenwalk-core is intended to be used as a starting point to build a custom desktop or server system, for users with limited disk space, or perfectionists desiring to build a desktop system themselves.
  
  
• Live Edition (~ 680 MB ISO download):
  Zenwalk's Live Edition is a complete GNU/Linux operating system. Just as with Zenwalk's desktop Edition, out of the box, you will be able to browse, mail, chat, listen to music, program in C, Perl, Python, Ruby,.. watch videos in various formats, write documents, print, scan, burn CD and DVD, connect your camera and edit your photographs, without adding anything. Coders will like the full set of development libraries and interpreters. The Live Edition also includes extras such as system recovery tools, partition tools, video games and much more...
  
  
• Gnome Edition (~ 560 MB ISO download):
  Zenwalk's Gnome Edition is a complete GNU/Linux operating system for both Desktops and Laptop/Notebook systems but is also easily customizable for use in servers and multimedia centers. Out of the box, you will be able to browse, mail, chat, listen to music, program in C, Perl, Python, Ruby,.. watch videos in various formats, write documents, print, scan, burn CD and DVD, connect your camera and edit your photographs, without adding anything. Coders will like the full set of development libraries and interpreters. Zenwalk Gnome Edition 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, GNOME Power Manager now has support for laptops with multiple batteries and has added disk spindown support for DeviceKit disks and much more.
  
  
• Openbox Edition (~ 490 MB ISO download):
  Zenwalk's Openbox Edition is a complete GNU/Linux operating system for both Desktops and Laptop/Notebook systems with highly configurable Openbox as stand-alone window manager. It is intended for users who want to dig in little deeper into their systems and start to learn linux internally, also for people who don't fear the shell ;). Althought the same time it provides you a system ready for browsing, mail, chat, listen to music, ... and all the things that standard version is capable of, without adding anything, if you prefer it that way. Once you get to know it like your pockets, you'll easily transform this baby into a system of your dreams and make it fly.
  

• Kernel: Linux 2.6.36.2, glibc 2.12
• Xorg 7.4
• XFce 4.8 Desktop Environment
• Linux dynamic device management (udev)
• Development: gcc 4.5.2, Python 2.6.6, Perl 5.12.2, GTK2 2.22.1
• Editors: Geany 0.19, Bluefish 2.0.2, Mousepad 0.2.16, Vim 7.3
• Internet: IceCat-3.6.13, IceDove-3.0.4, Pidgin-2.7.9, Transmission-2.13, Gftp-2.0.19
• Multimedia: Totem (GStreamer-0.10.31) 2.32, Gmusicbrowser-1.1.6, Streamtuner-0.99.99, IsoMaster-1.3.6, Brasero-2.32.1
• Office: OpenOffice.org-3.2
• Hardware support: Out of the box support for Intel (TM) wireless device firmware, a lot of printers. Nvidia and AMD (ATI) vga-drivers are in the repository.