Comments on: Review: Zenwalk 6.0

By: It’s A Binary World 2.0 » Mini-Review: Zenwalk 6.2

It’s A Binary World 2.0 » Mini-Review: Zenwalk 6.2 — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:04:14 +0000

[...] Zenwalk 6.2 I looked at Zenwalk 6.0 back in June and Zenwalk 6.2 is now out. I’m going to do a mini-review just comparing 6.0 to [...]

By: Lasker

Lasker — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:44:42 +0000

I find in astonishly beautiful.

No installation problems here. In fact it is one of the few that installs on my laptop (liked Ubuntu too, but would’t installl). Very stable, good performance. internet, network, mp3, all kind of movies, usb devices, all works straight out of the box.

This is what I was hoping for as a XP user.

By: Penguin Pete

Penguin Pete — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:08:08 +0000

I don’t know about OO, but ABIWord got fixed on ZW 6.0 when I installed the ispell package. BTW, it helps in the spell-checker IceWeasel, too, but you have to also change the spell-checker variable in IceWeasel’s “about:config” to ‘en_US’

You know what bugs me though is spell-checkers that can’t handle proper nouns. Isn’t it ridiculous that we still can’t type out 500 pages of text without having red lines all over the place? “Nixon” is in the dictionary, but “Obama” isn’t. Microsoft is in, but Unix commands like ‘grep’ and ‘chmod’ aren’t. Even ‘IceWeasel’ isn’t recognized!

/grouse and whinge

By: Aditya

Aditya — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:41:19 +0000

Great review. I have been meaning to give 6.0 a try for a long time now. Guess I will stick with Arch for now.

By: Openoffice.org user

Openoffice.org user — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:02:54 +0000

Sorry, I thought the fact that spell check didn’t work might be a valid addition to the review.

By: ZenGnome

ZenGnome — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 04:34:43 +0000

It’s a shame some internal discords made the support and update of the Gnome version really uncertain; it’s so difficult to find a Slackware (or derived) with Gnome!

By: Eric Mesa

Eric Mesa — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:03:26 +0000

Not sure this is the best place to get help for that. But thanks for bringing it up.

By: Openoffice.org user

Openoffice.org user — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:25:26 +0000

Noticed spell check doesn’t work in openoffice even after several attempts to fix it. Has anyone else had this problem?

By: Links 13/06/2009: Palm Pre Reviews, Fedora 11 Impressions | Boycott Novell

Links 13/06/2009: Palm Pre Reviews, Fedora 11 Impressions | Boycott Novell — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:19:02 +0000

[...] Review: Zenwalk 6.0 Ok, so I’d say Zenwalk is a good, beautiful distro. I would only recommend it to a new user if they have done their research on this Linux thing. They need to know how to find help or why Firefox is called Iceweasel or they need to have a geek friend they can ask. For Linux veterans, Zenwalk seems nice and easy. It seems to give all the power of Slackware with none of the (IMHO) BS. The repos are not as large as Fedora or Ubuntu, so check that you don’t need programs that aren’t there or are ok with compiling software. I’m still of the opinion that anyone who is unhappy with his or her current distro should try this one out. You may find it to be a good fit. It has nice, light requirements including Pentium 3 and 128 MB RAM so it might be great for resurrecting some old computers without having to resort to a “light” distro. It’s also good if you like Xfce or Gnome. There does not appear to be an official KDE version. [...]