Anyone tried Zenwalk?

[Ernest_P_Worrel]

Just gave this distro a spin today. It's built off of Slackware uses a non kde or gnome desktop called Xfce 4, comes on 1 iso image with firefox w/jre2.0 and thunderbird 1.5 preinstalled, gaim messenger, sudo, all the same screensavers as ubuntu, and best of all a media player with mp3 support, dvd playback, and live internet tv channels like bbc preinstalled and ready to use off of first bootup. It's really quite impressive and I think so far it's beating out my 2 favorites thusfar SuSE and Ubuntu. Give it a gander: http://www.zenwalk.org/

[abf]

i tried it (although not the latest release from yesterday) and i didn't like it. had issues with support.


XFCE is the shiznit though, i know, but takes getting used to. If you like Ubuntu but want XFCE i recommend you give Xubuntu a spin. Its excellent, although still under heavy development.

Regardless, slackware overall seems to not like me nor my system very much.

[ivsft]

http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=13121

[mohapi]

I'll give it a whirl today. I'm in the mood to experiment a little, and I plan on ending my experiments with the Dapper release. I enjoy trying new flavors.

[Ernest_P_Worrel]

The dvd player only plays region free dvds it turns out, didnt know at start since all I had was a region free dvd to test it. Vector Linux (www.vectorlinux.com) looks really sweet to, the soho version comes with mplayer fully setup and playing everything out of the box, many different desktops to chose from also, and I don't know how far darkstar linux is coming along but it's supposed to be geared toward gaming and built off of slack also like zen and vec.

[abf]

be careful with Vector. if you are gonna try it, get teh regular version, not soho, soho is on 2.4 kernel still.

[seablade]

To get the DVD player to play other DVDs you probably just need to install the correct lib to decode DVDs. I am drawing a mind blank and cant remember the name of it, but once you do that and set it up correctly(Possibly needing to recompile the player) you should be able to use it for regular DVDs.

Libdvdcss I believe is the name of the lib I was trying to think of.

Seablade