www.zenwalk.orgtag:www.zenwalk.org,2012://12012-05-17T00:06:19+02:00XOOPS WhatsNew 2.12Copyright (c) 2012, ZenwalkZenwalkhttp://www.zenwalk.org/Zenlive 7.2 Beta3 available for testingtag:www.zenwalk.org,2012://1.5.12012-03-08T23:04:09+01:002012-03-08T23:04:09+01:00bipbipI am happy to announce the 3rd beta release of Zenlive 7.2 ! This version is featuring the latest kernel 3.2.5 with support for aufs 3.2, bootsplash and bfs based on the latest Zenwalk snapshot development version and the latest slackware-live-scripts 0.3.6 framework ( http://slackware-live.tuxfamily.org ). For the first time ZenLive (even without any extra content) will not fit on on a single 700 MB CD-R anymore, but since DVD is a common media and due to the extra space that lets us includ ...
This version is featuring the latest kernel 3.2.5 with support for aufs 3.2, bootsplash and bfs based on the latest Zenwalk snapshot development version and the latest slackware-live-scripts 0.3.6 framework (http://slackware-live.tuxfamily.org).
For the first time ZenLive (even without any extra content) will not fit on on a single 700 MB CD-R anymore, but since DVD is a common media and due to the extra space that lets us include some additional goodies, not part of the Zenwalk Standard Edition, it has been decided to provide DVD ISO files only.
Well, what do we have under the hood:
- New xz compression squashfs 4.0 (now in vanilla kernel)
- All new simple Installer and Live-scripts
- On-the-fly live optional live module activation during the running live session, thanks to aufs3 and a loader script
- Persistent changes feature is now supported, even over network shares! (Need some more testers)
- Besides Standard Zenwalk package set, ZenLive provides some additional packages for more functionality
- Additional language packs & full Japanese language input support (should work for Korean and Chinese languages too)
- Fluxbox window manager and related apps now packaged together with the standard release as an alternative to Xfce4
- nouveau driver included in kernel 3.2.5 is now enabled by default, providing a _good_ 3D acceleration performance and support for a wide range of NVidia Cards (no need to ship the proprietary driver anymore )
- Broadcom wifi "WL" proprietary driver is shipped with this release as optional live module
- New bootsplash theme
- Updated ZenLive Manual addressing the changes introduced by switching to Slackware-live-scripts
My honest thanks goes to the Zenwalk Main Dev-Team, Pat and the Slackware Crew and of course Frank Endres the developer of the sophisticated Slackware-Live-scripts and all the open source community. Without the hard work and effort of you all, ZenLive wouldn't have been possible!
Please note, that this is still a beta version subject to changes, especially since stable Zenwalk 7.2 hasn't been officially released yet. You can help finalizing by testing and bug reporting.
Thanks and have fun!
Sebastian Reisse
[Update: 31/May/2012] I have polished the beta2 a bit taking all the feedback I got into account. It also has all the latest updates from snapshot. This one will hopefully the last beta before the final release. You can get it from the link above.
[Update: 14/April/2012] An updated build is now available for testing. We are close to finalize this release. ;)
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Zenwalk Gnome 7.0 is ready !tag:www.zenwalk.org,2012://1.5.22011-05-26T08:00:58+02:002011-05-26T08:00:58+02:00bipbipZenwalk Gnome 7.0 is out! We are proud to provide Zenwalk gnome 7.0 based on gnome 2.32.1. It is the last step before going to gnome 3.0. Zenwalk gnome is still like the standard Zenwalk edition, a clean and clear desktop. Hal support has been removed. Networkmanager was preferred instead of wicd. Rhythmbox has been also introduced as default music player and cd grabber. Viewnior is used to quickly view pictures and Simple-scan replaces xsane to scan documents. As usual, most packages have b ... We are proud to provide Zenwalk gnome 7.0 based on gnome 2.32.1. It is the last step before going to gnome 3.0.
Zenwalk gnome is still like the standard Zenwalk edition, a clean and clear desktop. Hal support has been removed. Networkmanager was preferred instead of wicd. Rhythmbox has been also introduced as default music player and cd grabber. Viewnior is used to quickly view pictures and Simple-scan replaces xsane to scan documents.
As usual, most packages have been updated to the latest stable version : Networkmanager-0.8.4 gedit-2.30.4 nautilus-2.32.2.1 rhythmbox-0.13.3 viewnior-1.1 simple-scan-2.32.0.2 gthumb-2.12.3 libreoffice-3.3.1 Kernel 2.6.37.4 with BFS scheduler and performance tweaks ...
Others gnome applications are available in the extra repo : eog-2.32.1 sound-juicer-2.32.0 vino-2.32.2 epiphany-2.30.6 ...
bbbd8263bfe2d6afa0926c05bdd4d71b zenwalk-gnome-7.0.iso
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Zenwalk Live version (ZenLive) 7.0 has been released!tag:www.zenwalk.org,2012://1.5.32011-05-08T13:29:41+02:002011-05-08T13:29:41+02:00hyperionZenwalk Live version (ZenLive) 7.0 has been released! We are happy to announce the highly awaited Zenwalk Live 7.0, which will allow more people to try out Zenwalk without having to install it first. 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 applicati ... We are happy to announce the highly awaited Zenwalk Live 7.0, which will allow more people to try out Zenwalk without having to install it first.
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)
- 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)
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IMPORTANT NOTE:
In order to improve security and due to the fact that people was complaining about the old default root password the root account is now *disabled* per default for the graphical boot options. Users are required to utilize the new introduced "rootpw=" boot parameter (without the quotes) to setup their individual root password. This is necessary if you would like to install the live cd or otherwise need access to features that are restricted to root only. However the old root password (ZenLive) is still available when choosing "text mode" boot option, but can be overridden by the rootpw= parameter if necessary. The default unprivileged user account also has been changed to "liveuser" (instead of "one") with an empty password.
Please read ABOUT in the root of the live-CD for more information.
Sebastian Reisse
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Zenwalk Live 7.0 RC2 is available for testing!tag:www.zenwalk.org,2012://1.5.42011-04-19T14:28:29+02:002011-04-19T14:28:29+02:00hyperionZenwalk Live version (ZenLive) 7.0 RC2 is available for testing! We are happy to announce the long awaited Zenwalk Live 7.0 RC1, which will allow more people to try out Zenwalk without having to install it first. Zenwalk Live 7.0 is based on the sophisticated Slackware-Live-Scripts, being the first distribution using the brand new 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 ... We are happy to announce the long awaited Zenwalk Live 7.0 RC1, which will allow more people to try out Zenwalk without having to install it first.
Zenwalk Live 7.0 is based on the sophisticated Slackware-Live-Scripts, being the first distribution using the brand new 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 RC1 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) - roopw=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)
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IMPORTANT NOTE:
In order to improve security and due to the fact that people was complaining about the old default root password the root account is now *disabled* per default for the graphical boot options. Users are required to utilize the new introduced "rootpw=" boot parameter (without the quotes) to setup their individual root password. This is necessary if you would like to install the live cd or otherwise need access to features that are restricted to root only. However the old root password (ZenLive) is still available when choosing "text mode" boot option, but can be overridden by the rootpw= parameter if necessary. The default unprivileged user account also has been changed to "liveuser" (instead of "one") with an empty password.
Please read ABOUT in the root of the live-CD for more information.
This is the first release candidate, all known issues since last beta should have been fixed.
Sebastian Reisse
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Zenwalk Live 7.0 RC1 is available for testing!tag:www.zenwalk.org,2012://1.5.52011-04-19T14:27:23+02:002011-04-19T14:27:23+02:00hyperionZenwalk Live version (ZenLive) 7.0 RC1 is available for testing! We are happy to announce the long awaited Zenwalk Live 7.0 RC1, which will allow more people to try out Zenwalk without having to install it first. Zenwalk Live 7.0 is based on the sophisticated Slackware-Live-Scripts, being the first distribution using the brand new 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 ... We are happy to announce the long awaited Zenwalk Live 7.0 RC1, which will allow more people to try out Zenwalk without having to install it first.
Zenwalk Live 7.0 is based on the sophisticated Slackware-Live-Scripts, being the first distribution using the brand new 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 RC1 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) - roopw=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)
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IMPORTANT NOTE:
In order to improve security and due to the fact that people was complaining about the old default root password the root account is now *disabled* per default for the graphical boot options. Users are required to utilize the new introduced "rootpw=" boot parameter (without the quotes) to setup their individual root password. This is necessary if you would like to install the live cd or otherwise need access to features that are restricted to root only. However the old root password (ZenLive) is still available when choosing "text mode" boot option, but can be overridden by the rootpw= parameter if necessary. The default unprivileged user account also has been changed to "liveuser" (instead of "one") with an empty password.
Please read ABOUT in the root of the live-CD for more information.
This is the first release candidate, all known issues since last beta should have been fixed.
Sebastian Reisse
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Zenwalk Core 7.0 is readytag:www.zenwalk.org,2012://1.5.62011-04-04T18:56:55+02:002011-04-04T18:56:55+02:00hyperionZenwalk Core 7.0 is ready Zenwalk Core 7.0 is the base foundation of Zenwalk : everything except the X server and desktop environment. Installation process takes about 10 minutes and then you're free to install just the packages you need to create your very own desktop environment or your highly optimized and secured server. Zenwalk Core features the 2.6.37.4 kernel with BFS scheduler, KMS and many performance tweaks. 2 kernels are available : the standard one supporting SATA or PATA disks, ... Zenwalk Core 7.0 is the base foundation of Zenwalk : everything except the X server and desktop environment. Installation process takes about 10 minutes and then you're free to install just the packages you need to create your very own desktop environment or your highly optimized and secured server.
Zenwalk Core features the 2.6.37.4 kernel with BFS scheduler, KMS and many performance tweaks. 2 kernels are available : the standard one supporting SATA or PATA disks, and a bigger kernel supporting any disk technology from SATA to SCSI.
Have you ever thought about creating your own Desktop Linux system ?
Note : the next version of Zenwalk Core will most probably be included in Zenwalk Standard edition as an installation option...
Have fun :) JP
Download mirrors, please see :
http://www.zenwalk.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=35
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Changelog - Zenwalk Openbox 7.0tag:www.zenwalk.org,2012://1.5.72011-04-02T16:00:00+02:002011-04-02T16:00:00+02:00stillborn-----< Mar 31 2011 > ---- cryptsetup ------- [a] Added cryptsetup-1.2.0-i486-1.txz ((utility for setting up encrypted filesystems) -----< Mar 30 2011 > ---- KRB5... ------- [n] Updated krb5-1.8.3-i486-70.1.txz ( Security fix ) -----< Mar 29 2011 > ---- BRCM80211 ------- [patches] Added brcm80211-2.6.37.4-i486-70.1.txz (Added driver) -----< Mar 28 2011 > ---- NETPKG... ------- [ap] Updated mkinitrd-1.4.6-i486-8.txz (Rebuilt.Allow relative paths for -s option.Thanks to GazL on LQ.Upgraded to b ...
---- cryptsetup -------
[a] Added cryptsetup-1.2.0-i486-1.txz ((utility for setting up encrypted filesystems)
[ap] Updated mkinitrd-1.4.6-i486-8.txz (Rebuilt.Allow relative paths for -s option.Thanks to GazL on LQ.Upgraded to busybox-1.18.4.) [ap] Updated hpijs-3.11.3a-i486-70.1.txz (New version) [ap] Updated netpkg-4.7.2-i486-70.1.txz (Handles "patches" category, new options to filter "extra") [ap] Updated man-1.6g-i486-1.txz (Upgraded.) [ap] Updated vim-7.3.143-i486-1.txz (Upgraded.) [ap] Updated xfsprogs-3.1.4-i486-1.txz: Upgraded. [l] Updated libelf-0.8.13-i486-2.txz (Rebuilt.Enabled the static library. Thanks to Ozan Türkyilmaz.) [l] Updated libusb-1.0.8-i486-2.txz (Rebuilt. Patched debug log level. Thanks to Heinz Wiesinger for a link to a patch.) [l] Updated poppler-0.16.3-i486-1.txz (Upgraded. This (again) bumps the major number of the library requiring everything that uses it to be recompiled. :/ Probably a good idea to upgrade though.) [n] Updated bluez-4.90-i486-1.txz (Upgraded.) [n] Updated ethtool-2.6.36-i486-1.txz (Upgraded.Thanks to Luiz Gustavo Zuliani for testing ethtool, iputils, mtr, and traceroute updates and making sure they were bumped in time for 13.37.) [n] Updated iputils-s20101006-i486-1.txz (Upgraded.) [n] Updated mtr-0.80-i486-1.txz (Upgraded.) [n] Updated openssl-0.9.8r-i486-3.txz (Rebuilt.Fixed installation of certwatch.new.Thanks to Thom1b on LQ.) [n] Updated rsync-3.0.8-i486-1.txz (Upgraded.) [x] Updated libXi-1.4.2-i486-1.txz (Upgraded.) [x] Updated liberation-fonts-ttf-1.06.0.20100721-noarch-3.txz (Rebuilt.Brought back the 60-liberation.conf with Courier New added.) [x] Updated xproto-7.0.21-noarch-1.txz (Upgraded.) [xap] Updated evince-2.32.0-i486-70.2.txz (Rebuild with new poppler) [xap] Updated gimp-2.6.11-i486-70.2.txz (Rebuild with new poppler)
-----< Mar 29 2011 >----- ZENWALK OPENBOX 7.0 RELEASED
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