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Report bugs ; Immediate download waiting for mirrors and torrents : zenwalk-current Saturday, December 26, Pipewire replaces Pulseaudio in Zenwalk. Goodby Pulseaudio! AppImage Hopefully it should work on any distribution without any dependency. Have fun : JP. Thursday, December 10, Zenwalk Current Zenwalk Current Please report any bugs : Have fun! JP Immediate download waiting for mirrors and torrents : zenwalk-current Tuesday, July 21, AppImage for pulseaudio-dlna.

Hi, I created an AppImage for pulseaudio-dlna : pulseaudio-dlna AppImage No need to keep Python 2 just for this, it runs without any dependencies. Have fun jp. Tuesday, July 14, 2nd video review of Zenwalk Here's a nice video review which can also be useful as a step by step setup tutorial thanks to DJ Ware.

Note that the DJ didn't use netpkg : the Zenwalk package manager, and he should have ; flathub is NOT a package manager : it's more to be considered as a "play store".

Monday, July 6, A video review of Zenwalk First review of Zenwalk Here's the first review of Zenwalk Today : a new tool to manage EFI boot entries has been added. Have fun JP. Thursday, July 2, Zenwalk Hi, Once a year, Zenwalk Current is considered stable enough for a "milestone" release, here's Zenwalk 15 milestone Based on Slackware Current July , Zenwalk 15 milestone is fully compatible.

As usual, the goal is to provide fast simple setup, refined desktop, selection of the best apps, ease of use, with full respect of the Slackware philosophy. First downloads are here : zenwalk-current Presentation 2. Launch 2. Basic usage 3. Mountpoints Manager 3.

Presentation 3. Use 3. USB automount How does it work? Udev local rules how-to: 3. Possible problems Netpkg 4. Presentation 4. Using netpkg 4. Options 4. Some advices for upgrading your system 5. Presentatition 5. Starting 5. Use 6. Presentation 6. Starting 6. Options 7. Presentation 7. Starting 7. Use 7. Some words about the services 8. Presentation 8. Starting 8. Some words about each menu item 9.

Presentatition 9. Starting 9. Use Presentation Starting I believe that building an operating system is a great method to understand it because you're on your own to solve problems when things do not work as expected. Another reason for building Zenwalk was that I always found myself repeating the same modifications on my systems after a new installation.

Such repeated modifications included recompiling a more optimized and up to date kernel, removing loads of unused software and libraries, customizing the desktop, tuning the X window system, improving startup scripts, adding my preferred text editor, adding movie player and codecs and so on So this project brought forward an opportunity to share this customization with friends, as well as being able to reinstall my system in exactly in the same state at any given time.

Then came the users and contributors, and along with them, came the beginnings of the changes that has helped to mold Zenwalk into what it is today. We started replacing more and more parts of the original distribution, with alternatives i. Gnome libs , adding lots of administration tools, and a new way to manage packages remotely i. Users have helped a lot improving Zenwalk, many features of the current version are answers to features requests posted and discussed on the support forum.

The result is Zenwalk as is it now, based on Slackware, yet in many ways very different : it is a daily development work, done by several Linux lovers to build their ideal Linux OS. This manual takes lots of its inspiration from the excellent Slackbook. Linux was born in Initially, it was just a kernel, developed by Linus Torvalds.

Now, lots of the applications on a Linux system are provided by the GNU project. Definition According to Wikipedia. The term software is often used for a computer program, and vice versa. Software can consist of a single computer program, especially in recent micro-computer science, where raw processor performance and cheep memory capacity allow to run big programs. Over all, software is prevalently composed of one or more programs, but also of data that allow it to function.

Perl or PHP scripts. The data comes in different formats also: classic files, databases relational, hierarchical, etc. In micro-computer science, images, especially icons, are often integrated in the executable.

General Definition of "Software" Software contains instructions that are executed by a computer, as opposted to the physical device on which it functions the 'hardware'. A 'program' is a list of instructions, written by a programmer in programming language e.

Often they are stored in a simple file. A person with the right knowledge can read the program; this is called the 'source code' and is the receipt of the program. Closed-source software developers guard these secrets well; only Open-source software make their source code available to the public.

The characteristics of the software are clearly described in the source code translation of the binary 0 and 1, which are the only instructions the machine grasps. Compilers are used to translate source code into machine language. After this transformation we have what we call 'binaries', which can be interpreted by a machine. Once it has been adapted to the host system, the software is ready to be installed and executed.

Free software are often protected by a usage licence. Most of the time, one needs to acquire a usage licence by paying the creators of the software. His IT research section had been closed down; for years, he had shared his knowledge with his colleagues.

Now, did he have to sell his knowledge to the highest bidder, or would he take the occasion to share his knowledge with the world? To appease his conscience, he created the principle of 'free software'. For this, access to the source code is a prerequisite. For this also, access to the source code is a prerequisite. The GNU Project After writing this statement, Stallman create the "Free Software Fondation" The objective of this foundation is promoting and developing free software; for his foundation, Stallman started writing applications.

His ultimate goal: create an entirely free system. The license reincorporates the four elementary principles mentioned above, with a solid judiciary background. The first real test for the GPL was a German trial in , where a judge ruled a company violated it. In the eighties, when Microsoft and Windows were still midgets, Unix was the proprietary system number one. The Open Source initiative Another movement arose during the ninetees of the past century.

They consider themselves more flexible than the FSF. The new current took form when in Netscape went free software — at that time, a group of people decided to support Netscape's move. They follow the Debian concept of free software.

You can find their ten criteria here: original version of the OSI license version 1. Understanding free software 2. Where do the free software come from? The first free software was developed by Stallman himself. To start out with building an operating system, you need real basic software like the GNU compiler collection. Stallman choose an extremely ambitious concept for the new kernel: it should become a micro-kernel Windows for example uses a macro- kernel; Linux, however, uses a micro-kernel.

However, the development of his kernel, didn't went as smooth as planned. At that point Linus Torvalds jumped in. This student from Finland was studying the inner workings of x CPUs, and had written a POSIX compatible program to understand the functioning of this processor generation. Just for fun, he wrote a kernel, using the GNU software. When announced officially version 1. Despite being usable by a hackers elite only, it looks very promising. A lot of kernels follow; in , kernel 2.

While 2. In , the 2. At the end of follows the 2. The free software offers a lot of quality apps — heck, most of the worldwide web runs on Linux servers, using software like Apache and PHP Zenwalk is based on Slackware, a robust Linux distribution truly faithful to the spirit of Unix, with which it is compatible.

Zenwalk is recognized today as one of the fastest distributions available in binary version. Out of the box, you will be able to browse, mail, chat, listen to music, program in C, Perl, Python, Ruby,.. Coders will like the full set of development libraries and interpreters. Zenwalk-core is intended to be used as a starting point to build a custom desktop system or a server system, and for users with limited space on their disk, or great perfectionists wanting to build their personal desktop system themselves.

A window will now appear enabling you to choose the file you wish to burn. And finally, click on [Burn]. If you arrive at the boot screen of Zenwalk CD, you can begin the installation. If you do not arrive at this screen, but are back under your current operating system, your computer may not be configured to boot from CD-ROM. No need to panic, simply restart your system and reconfigure the BIOS settings. Be a part of the DaniWeb community. Sign Up — It's Free! Reply to this Topic.

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