A. Installasi
1. XFE
XFE sudah memiliki paket installer sendiri (tgz). Silahkan download di sini dahulu. Kemudian lakukan installasi paket. Jika Anda belum tahu cara melakukan installasi paket zenwalk, silahkan click disini.

Karena XFE membutuhkan library tambahan agar bisa berjalan, maka Anda harus pula mendownload paket FOX dan menginstallnya.

Jika sudah selesai, ketik di console "xfe" (tanpa kutip) lalu enter. Sebaiknya Anda membuat shortcut untuk memudahkan menjalankannya, karena paket installer tidak membuat shortcut otomatis di start menu.

2. PCMan
Dowload file source PCMan di sini.
Anda akan melakukan kompilasi sendiri. Jangan takut, buat yang belum terbiasa dalam melakukan compile source aplikasi linux, mostly rumusnya adalah cmmi-mc alias configure, make dan make install - dan optional make clean. Ikuti langkah installasinya sebagai berikut :

+ Login console sebagai root
+ Extract file source PCman yang sudah ada ke sebuah folder (terserah Anda) misal /opt/pcmanfm-0.5/
+ Masuk ke folder /opt/pcmanfm-0.5/
+ Ketik :
#./configure [tekan enter]
make [tekan enter]
make install [tekan enter]

Tunggu sampai proses untuk setiap baris diatas selesai. Jika tidak ada aral melintang, baris terakhir kurang lebih berisi "make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/pcmanfm-0.5'"

Installasi pcman selesai. Jika Anda ingin membersihkan folder pcmanfm-0.5 tadi dari file temporary compilasi dsb, silahkan ekseskusi make clean. Namun jika Anda tidak membutuhkan sourcenya lagi, bisa langsung Anda hapus saja folder src tsb. Sangat mudah kan installasinya :D

Satu tambahan lagi, jika ingin agar PCMan menambahkan definisi tipe MIME baru, sehingga mempercepat pengenalan tipe file windows yang sudah cukup dikenal, maka silahkan eksekusi di console (masih sebagai root tentunya) :

update-mime-database /usr/share/mime [tekan enter]
update-desktop-database [tekan enter]

Selanjutnya Anda bisa akses PCman ini dari menu start->system->PCMan File Manager. Anda bisa pula run dari console dengan mengetik pcmanfm lalu tekan enter. Sebuah interface yang mirip sekali dengan thunar namun dengan beberapa fitur tambahan akan muncul dilayar.

Cat : Agar bisa open folder di terminal, set dahulu default terminal di preference. Jika Anda menggunakan zenwalk, isi dengan kata terminal. Jika menggunakan distro lain, silahkan pilih yang sesuai.

B. Feature
Untuk mempermudah Anda melakukan komparasi diantara dua file manager diatas, berikut list plus minusnya.
1. XFE
+ Multi Panel. Layout bisa seperti windows explorer, Midnight commander (dual + panel) atau kombinasi tree dan dual panel.
+ Bookmark Folder.
+ Thumbnail View.
+ Memiliki folder Trash Bin sendiri (semacam recycle bin kalau di windows) yang bisa diaktifkan atau dimatikan sesuai kebutuhan.
+ Shortcut yang cukup lengkap.
+ Dapat membuka jendela baru sebagai root.
+ Feature symbolik link dengan target.
+ Memiliki program bawaan sendiri untuk Text Editor (xfw), Text Viewer (xfv) dan Image Viewer (xfi).
+ Ganti Theme dan Font
+ Filter Show File yang lebih baik dibanding select pattern thunar.
+ Popup menu yang cukup lengkap. Copy To dan Move To.
+ Icon tertentu menggunakan icon khas windows. Seperti icon Ms-Excel dll.

- Sekali-kali (jarang) kurang stabil,pada saat terjadi error tiba-tiba xfe close sendiri.
- Loading lebih lambat dibanding Thunar dan PCMan
- Tidak bisa melakukan install package zenwalk secara langsung (click kanan->install package).
- File Association banyak yang harus diset manual pada saat double click pertama.

2. PCMan
+ Menampilakan list fstab untuk device yang dimount, sehingga lebih memudahkan untuk mengaksesnya.
+ Interface yang lebih familiar dengan thunar
+ Thumbnail View untuk file image pada mode compact dan detailed list
+ Multi Tab (Tabbed Browsing)
+ Find Files
+ Bookmark Folder.
+ Lebih stabil dibanding xfe
+ Bisa membuka Current Folder sebagai root
+ Loading cepat
+ File Association ke default

- Bookmark akan muncul di menu places zenpanel. Sehingga jika banyak bookmark terlihat kurang nyaman.
- Tidak bisa melakukan install package zenwalk secara langsung (click kanan->install package).
- Tidak ada thrash folder

Oke. Sebagai penutup pilihan mana yang ingin Anda coba sebagai alternatif thunar, terserah Anda.

I install Zenwalk in the partitions sda7(/boot) sda8(/) sda9(/home) and sda10(swap). All went really smooth. And i did not choose to install lilo on sda.

Sadly Zenwalk has not switched grub.(On need to look up why!). Now i have Ubuntu HardyHeron also installed which i hardly switch, is almost a constant on my HP500 laptop.  This article is more of a personal reference, but i could also be helpful for the needy :)

This was was my ordeal to get Zenwalk up and running from grub's menu.lst on my Ubuntu. I went ahead and added the following lines to the end of menu.lst file to represent my Zenwalk partition...

# Zenwalk Linux
title Zenwalk Linux
root (hd0,6)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda8 vga=0x31A video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap splash=silent
initrd /initrd.splash

 
Note for those who have little idea about entries... 

(hd0,6) means look for the files on the first(index 0) physical hard drive in the 7th partition(indexing starting from 0). What files? The kernel image file and the init file.

In the kernel line make sure the the "root=" points to the where your "/" resides in, in my case the /dev/sda8 partition.

NOTE: make sure you make backup of the existing menu.lst file before you make these changes

1. Tidak ada Bookmark Folder
Jika sering mengakses folder-folder tertentu dan tidak bisa melakukan bookmark (semacam favorite kalo di windows explorer), memang sangat tidak nyaman, karena harus menelusuri folder yang ingin dibuka.
2. Tabbed Browsing
Saya lebih prefer file manager menggunakan tab, sehingga tidak terlalu banyak jendela yang terbuka. Seperti kita browsing menggunakan Opera atau Firefox, cukup satu jendela saja.
3. Thumbnail
4. Multi Layout
Jika tidak bisa tabbed browsing, setidaknya bisa multi layout. Misal dual pane kiri kanan, sehingga proses copy/move file atau komparasi folder akan jauh lebih mudah. Sayang sekali thunar sama sekali tidak memilikinya.
5. Shortcut 'open in terminal'
Jika berada di mode compact list, untuk membuka terminal di folder tertentu maka harus click kanan di nama foldernya. Sebenernya jika ada shortcut akan jauh lebih mudah.
6. Filter File
Thunar tidak memiliki filter file dengan extension tertentu. Tidak jarang kita hanya butuh melihat file dengan extension tertentu saja dari sebuah folder.
7. Move/Copy dari Popup Menu
Dari pada hanya lewat menu Send to, mungkin kita juga perlu move/copy file ke direktori yang kita inginkan, simply dengan click kanan pada file/folder lalu pilih direktorinya. This is very handy.

So apa dong, alternatif file manager untuk thunar tersebut ?

Setelah melihat beberapa file manager berbasis GTK disini, akhirnya saya memilih dua file manager dengan melihat feature, tampilan dan last update projectnya. 'Terpilihlah' PCMan dan XFE. Dari dua tersebut saya lebih sering menggunakan PCman. Tentu saja masing-masing memiliki kekurangan dan kelebihan.

Thunar juga bukan berarti tanpa kelebihan. Ada 1 fitur yang selama ini sering saya butuhkan, namun tidak ada di kedua file manager alternatif tsb di atas. Apa itu ? kita tunggu saja segera, karena next article, saya akan jelaskan pula bagaimana cara installasi dan komparasi diantara keduanya.

The first thing I did was run Ethernet cable to the computer.  Before that I'd tried to dink around with wifi but was running into one headache after another.  Ethernet is nice and makes everything much more do-able for me.

Second, I upgraded the hard drive.  10 GB will do for a Linux install or even an XP install (I actually had XP on it at one point - ugh) but it gives no room for much else.  My sons like to mess around with their mp3 collection, watch movies and read comics on the computer.  So I needed a bigger hard drive and I cannibalized one from my main desktop system.  Now instead of 10 GB I have 160 GB to work with.

Next, I tried to figure out a good Linux install for this old box.  I'm far from a Linux expert though I am learning and sorta enjoy figuring things out along the way.  I'd used Ubuntu before and I'd read that Xubuntu was made for low-end computers.  Perfect!

Xubuntu installed just fine but it was slower than I liked.  I don't know enough about the distribution to understand why but things were usable but noticeably slow.  I've since read that Xubuntu is "bloated" according to some people.  Anyway, it wasn't for me.

I tried a couple of other options.  Puppy Linux was amazingly fast but also fairly obtuse.  I couldn't figure out how to change icons, installing software was confusing and I soon realized it wasn't going to be viable.  But holy crap it was fast!

I also spent quite a bit of time with Zenwalk which is very nice and almost made a true believer out of me.  Zenwalk is a lightweight distribution based on Slackware (not sure what that means other than it's different from Debian which Ubuntu is based on) and uses XFCE like Xubuntu.  Here are some of the other features of Zenwalk from their website:

Modern and user-friendly (latest stable software, selected applications)
Fast (optimized for performance capabilities)
Rational (one mainstream application for each task)
Complete (full development/desktop/multimedia environment)
Evolutionary (simple network package management tool - netpkg)

Sounds good to me so I installed it and used it for about a month.  It was clearly speedier than Xubuntu for me though not as fast as Puppy Linux.  Things were nicely set up and I liked the look and it was easy to configure the way I wanted it.  Simple and nice, just how I wanted things.

But there were a couple of niggling issues that kept me from completely embracing Zenwalk.  First, I was used to using Synaptic, deb files and even apt-get from the command line.  I don't understand Slackware and could never figure out how to install software in Zenwalk that wasn't in their repositories.  Their package manager (netpkg) was fine but if I ventured outside of that I was lost.

Second, the packages they did have were... odd.  The biggest example is Firefox which they rebranded as Iceweasel.  Something to do with free vs. non-free software, etc.  Fine, no problem.  But for some reason they still hadn't updated Firefox/Iceweasel to 3.0 nearly two months after it was released.  That didn't make sense.  Firefox 3 was noticeably faster to me and I couldn't see a good reason not to upgrade.  In Ubuntu, if the current version of a program wasn't available in the repositories I could usually find a deb file and install it that way.  I had no clue how to install Firefox 3 in Zenwalk outside of compiling it from source.  And I'm not really a "compile from source" kinda guy.

Last, Zenwalk was fast but just didn't seem fast enough.  Youtube videos were never quite smooth like they were in Puppy Linux.  Things seemed a bit "draggy" to me.  It's subjective, sure.  But I noticed it and I wanted to see if there was a faster option.

I stumbled across a post somewhere on the internet about installing a minimal command-line only system and then adding only what you wanted or needed.  The end result, apparently, was a very fast yet customized system.  Now that sounded appealing and that's what I did.

More on this in part two.

Zenwalk, la famosa distribucion liviana basada en Slackware ha liberado su nueva version en Gnome. Esta nueva version denominada como Linux 5.2 Gnome Beta 1esta lista para testear ya que esta en fase beta todavia. Su escritorio Gnome corresponde a la version 2.22.3. Tambien trae el kernel 2.6.25.4, el ultimo X.Org 7.3 suite de X servers y la siguiente generacion del gestor de paquetes Netpkg.

Fuente: http://support.zenwalk.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=18011

Since 1995, when Patrick Volkerding announced that he would no longer include GNOME in Slackware, people had to rely on projects like GWARE, GNOME Slackbuild or Dropline to enjoy their favourite desktop environment on the oldest Linux distribution around. Or, of course, build GNOME yourself. This has been the case for three years, and despite the popularity of GNOME-based distributions like Ubuntu or Fedora, not one of the many Slackware derivates jumped at the opportunity to combine the simplicity and stability of Slackware with a good looking GNOME desktop. Until now.

Zenwalk, formerly known as MiniSlack, has been around for quite a while now, and is something of a fan-favourite. It focuses on stability, speed, and rationality, meaning one application per task. It's latest offering, Zenwalk 5.2, has been getting positive reviews. By default, the Standard Edition comes with XFCE. Now, there's the GNOME Edition, and while it's still a beta, I'm very impressed.

Installation

Unlike the Standard Edition, Zenwalk Gnome is not a Live CD. I've said before in my Pardus 2008 review that to me, that's not a big deal, but it may be to others. The install isn't very pretty, but it's easy enough for someone who has used Linux before. Mind you, it's not Mandriva or Ubuntu easy. You do have to know something about your hardware, like the partitioning of your hard drive, and what kind of graphic card you have (the installation of restricted drivers doesn't happen automatically).

At first boot, you can configure your system further, and this is why installing Zenwalk is easier than installing Slackware. Here, you'll have to add a user, set up sound, locale and numlock, and agree to some licences. Afterwards, you end up with a very familiar looking desktop, because it looks exactly the same as Zenwalk's standard XFCE layout. According to the Zenwalk devs, "[t]he looks are not xfce-like, they are Zenwalk-like. The way XFCE looks in Zenwalk is far from the default xfce looks in the first place.[...]We have chosen that layout for XFCE and gnome because we believe that it's the best layout for a desktop PC." I guess that makes sense.

Configuration and documentation

Zenwalk doesn't provide the standard Applications - Locations - System panel layout that a Gnome distribution traditionally has, but the Gnome Configuration Center, with all the familiar modules, is available from the menu and the bottom panel. There's also the Zenwalk System Tools manager. I'll provide a screenshot, because listing all the options would take too long.

To be honest, Zenwalk didn't much configuration. Most of the stuff that can be changed in the Tools manager was already taken care of during first boot, and working well. I added my favourite key shortcuts in the Gnome Configuration Center, and that was it.

Package management is taken care of by Netpkg, which is simple and works well. Of course, if you base your distribution on Slackware, there will always be the problem that there aren't as many packages available as for, say, Debian. Normally, Slackware is perfectly suited for users who want to compile their own software, but Zenwalk is aimed at another kind of computer user. That means the bigger the repositories are, the better. And the Zenwalk repositories, while extensive, show at least one curious hole. For a Gnome edition, the omission of Rhythmbox is at least curious. It's not even available as an alternative. Banshee is, but the version in the repositories isn't the new 1.2. Instead, we get gMusicbrowser. There's nothing really wrong with it, but in my opinion it suffers from an overabundance of (unneeded?) options, and some strange playlist handling...in short, it's not my favourite choice. I understand their one-application-per-task policy, and gMusicbrowser is indeed a lighter application than Rhythmbox and Banshee, so it makes sense that it's the Zenwalk default. Still, I'd have liked an alternative to be in the repositories.

Any distribution that has a Wiki and an active user forum gets brownie points from me, and Zenwalk has both. In the Wiki the HOWTO section is particularly useful, but the newsletters aren't very current. I guess you can't really expect it to be when the latest one introduces itself as "your hopefully monthly update on the Zenwalk GNU/Linux OS and the community around it." :) The fora are very active, which to me is a sign of a distribution's health.

Using Zenwalk

Zenwalk was a joy to use. It must be one of the most beautiful distributions I ever installed, but don't ask me why. The default theme is Clearlooks, which is nothing special, but the icons are a modified Discovery set, which look very nice. At first sight, the desktop background is the typical blue swirl, with the Zenwalk logo, but even that looks great in my opinion. After I installed the nvidia drivers and switched on the Metacity compositor things looked even better.
I expected the unusual panel layout to be irritating, since the bottom panel is twice the hight of a normal Gnome panel, and it leaves a lot of room unused at the left and the right of the screen. Immediately after that thought, I forgot all about it, so I guess I was wrong.

As I mentioned before, the choice of applications is a bit different than what's "normal". It's a mix of standard Gnome software like Brasero, Gimp, Totem, Pidgin and Evince with light-weight software like Asunder (for CD ripping), Leafpad, the aforementioned gMusicbrowser, Galculator, htop, Gnumeric and Abiword. Browsing and email are handled by Iceweasel and Icedove (the rebranded versions of Firefox and Thunderbird). OpenOffice isn't installed by default, but available from the repositories.

Multimedia support is fairly good out of the box. I could play all my audio and video files, but to play DVDs you have to jump through a few hoops. Firefox Iceweasel handles embedded media with the Totem plugin, but flash has to be installed seperately.

I never, ever felt like I was using a beta release. Literally everything worked as it should have, and the only app that crashed was xscreensaver, and then only the first time. It didn't cause a lock-up, and it didn't happen again. I guess that one of the many screensavers that xscreensaver provides just didn't work.
It wasn't just stable, it was speedy too. Even with the Metacity compositor turned on, it didn't slow down. It felt only a little slower than my Arch installation, but that one uses Openbox instead of Gnome, and no compositor. I was very impressed.

Conclusion

I didn't expect to like Zenwalk this much, but I do. It's stable while being a beta release, it's speedy, it just works and it does all of this while looking good. Without the installer, which requires a bit of knowledge, it would a be perfect for a Linux newbie. But as soon as it's installed, it's a pleasure to use. Since I installed Arch, thee's not a single distribution that has tempted me so much. I never knew Gnome could be this fast, or look this good. In my opinion, the only thing that's needed to make it perfect is to expand the repositories a bit.

The best thing about this distribution, is that it finally brings Gnome to Slackware fans. It has taken some time, but it has been worth the wait. Zenwalk 5.2 GNOME Edition is one of the best Linux distributions I've ever installed. Try it out.

San

First i installed zenwalk with its native bootloader zenwalk and then got really mad trying to add my ubuntu to the lilo. Sometimes it is better do the old school stuff.

I popped in the ubuntu cd and then restored grub.

Then i added the following lines to my /etc/grub/menu.lst

# Zenwalk Linux
title Zenwalk
root (hd0,9)
kernel (hd0,9)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda10 ro quiet splash
initrd (hd0,9)/boot/initrd.splash

Here my zenwalk resides on sda10. Don't get confused with hd0,9 there the numbering starts from 0,1,2 etc..

so if your linux partition is sda4 add them as hd0,3 adn /dev/sda4 at appropriate positions

The next time i had to reinstal zenwalk what i did was i skipped the lilo installation and just added the lines to the grub in ubuntu.

Finally my grub looks something like this

default 3
timeout 10
title Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-16-generic

root (hd0,10)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic root=UUID=6e02197f-3134-49ac-a194-403b23974238 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic
quiet

title Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-16-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,10)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic root=UUID=6e02197f-3134-49ac-a194-403b23974238 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic
title Ubuntu 8.04, memtest86+
root (hd0,10)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet

title Zenwalk
root (hd0,9)
kernel (hd0,9)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda10 ro quiet splash
initrd (hd0,9)/boot/initrd.splash

If you want to add any windows to grub add this

title Other operating systems:
title Windows XP
root (hd0,xx)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1
where xx corresponds to the drive number starting from 0,1,2,....

Dari dulu saya cari command ini, alhamdulillah akhirnya sekarang tercapai juga :D

Command tersebut adalah showmount -e [host/ipaddress].

Untuk mengeksekusinya, lakukan sebagai root.
Contoh showmount -e 192.168.0.1

Command ini bisa juga digunakan untuk melihat share nfs yang terbuka dilocal pc.
showmount -e localhost

Semoga Bermanfaat.

Biasanya agar mysql bisa menerima koneksi TCP/IP, maka di file konfigurasi my.cnf tinggal comment (#) baris bertuliskan skip-networkingnya. Nah kejadinnya setelah saya menginstall mysql di zenwalk, jika saya jalankan mysql menggunakan command mysqld_safe dari konsole. SQLYog bisa konek dengan normal.

Tapi anehnya jika menjalankan mysql sebagai service, maka selalu saja gagal konek dari SQLYog. Saya cek my.cnf untuk opsi lain dan cek juga owner sama group folder mysql mungkin ada yang salah, tapi tetep saja selalu gagal. Servicenya sendiri jalan normal dan bisa terkoneksi lewat console mysql. Tapi jika konek lewat TCP/IP ? "Gagal maning gagal maning son". Curiga service tidak membaca ke file /etc/my.cnf seperti jika dijalankan dari command mysqld_safe. Tapi setelah disearch memang tidak ada file my.cnf lainnya. Coba untuk reinisialisasi database. Tidak ada hasil :( Saya coba saja uninstall dan reinstall. Tetep saja begitu.

Pantang menyerah, langsung meluncur ke google, kok malah hasilnya banyak yang gak match dengan problem tsb. Apa search keyword saya yang kurang tepat ya hehe. Akhirnya dapat satu artikel (atau tanya jawab di sebuah forum ?), lupa dimana namun kalo tidak salah ada bagian bahwa di file service mysql ada setting skip networkingnya juga. Ah...iya kenapa tidak curiga dengan file servicenya ya :(

Langsung tancap gas, saya coba buka file service mysqlnya di /etc/rc.d/rc.mysqld. Dan memang dodooolll pisaan...ternyata bener ada opsi skip-networking, yaitu SKIP="--skip-networking". Puguh wae gak bisa konek terus. Setelah dicomment, SQLYog sudah bisa konek dengan baik. Saya cuma tersenyum...gara-gara satu baris itu saya dibikin pusing hampir satu jam.

Tersisa pertanyaan, kenapa opsi skip-networking ini harus disimpen di file service. Padahal biarkan saja mysql membacanya dari file konfig my.cnf ya. Ada yang tau ?

But anyway, setidaknya dapat tambahan ilmu baru dari kejadian itu :D that's why i love zenwalk. Pokoknya keep ngulik euy !

1-Obtendo o pacote GRUB
2-Instalando o pacote
3-Instalando O GRUB no MBR da partiçao primaria
4-Criando e editando o menu.lst para o Zenwalk

1)para o obter o pacote do GRUB va ao site:

"http://packages.slackware.it/"

caso nao se lembre o zenwalk 5.2 e compativel com os pacotes do slackware,
portanto se tiver os cd's ou dvd do slackware 12 procure no cd 3 em
~/slackwre/extra/grub

2)para instalar o o pacote use o zenpkg

#zenpkg [pacote.tgz]

3)para instalar o grub no MBR da partiçao primaria use

#grub-install -recheck /dev/sda

4)a.crie o arquivo menu.lst
#touch /boot/grub/menu.lst

b.Crie a entrada default para o boot do Zenwalk

# Zenwalk Linux
title Zenwalk Linux [/boot/vmlinuz + /boot/initrd.splash, /dev/sdb6]
root (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdb1 vga=0x31A video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap splash=silent
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.splash

OBS: Essas sao as entradas no menu.lst para o zenwalk 5.2 com boot slpash
para ser sem o bootsplash use as seguintes entradas:

# Zenwalk Linux
title Zenwalk Linux [/boot/vmlinuz /dev/sdb6]
root (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdb6

ARTIGO EM CONSTRUÇAO!!!

• Por : Dalton Brisola

Zenwalk 5.2 já se encontra no ranking #14 do site DistroWatch. Essa distribuição se encontra no site zenwalk.org. Neste site você encontra documentação, fórum e existe também um site da comunidade brasileira em www.zenwalk-BR.org, com fórum e documentação em português!

O Zenwalk 5.2 pretende ser uma distribuição Linux para fins múltiplos, concentrando-se nas aplicações para internet, multimídia e programação.

De acordo com o site, Zenwalk é um sistema operacional GNU/Linux, concebido para possuir as seguintes características:

• Moderna e "user-friendly" (usando as mais novas e estáveis versões dos softwares);

• Rápida (otimizada para performance);

• Racional (um aplicativo para cada tarefa);

• Completo (pleno ambiente de desenvolvimento / desktop / multimídia);

• Evolutiva (gerenciamento de pacotes feito através de uma ferramenta de rede - o netpkg).

O Zenwalk 5.2 é uma distribuição baseada inicialmente no Slackware que tira toda as vantagens já conhecidas desta distribuição. Suas ferramentas principais são:

• Kernel: Linux 2.6.22.7;

• Desenvolvimento: GCC-4.1.1, Python-2.5, Perl-5.8.8, GTK2-2.10.12;

• Editores: Geany-0.10.2, Bluefish-1.0.7, Mousepad-0.2.12, Vim-7.0.195;

• Desktops: XFCE-4.4.1.

Vem em 2 versões: "core" e "desktop", sendo cada qual destinada a uma segmentação específica. Veja:

Core (ISO 180MB)

Zenwalk-core é o sistema Zenwalk sem o servidor / aplicações X. É voltado para ser um ponto de início para a construção de desktops / servidores customizados. Ou usuários perfeccionistas que desejam criar seus próprios ambientes de desktops, também servindo para quem possui pouco espaço de HD.

Desktop (ISO 480 MB)

É o sistema completo, com ferramentas para web, chat, música, programação, vídeo, impressão e tudo já configurado e otimizado.

• Máquina de teste

Minha experiência com esta distro foi feita em uma máquina SIS Pentium II 400Mhz (overclock o default e 233Mhz, só para constar o Zenwalk 5.2 também rodou muito bem nesta velocidade!), 132MB RAM, uma partição dedicada de 8GB e uma placa de vídeo onboard SIS 630 com 16 MB do tipo shared.

Fica claro então que os aspectos que o projeto afirma ter em suas características foram postos à prova!

• Instalação

• Primeiras impressões e visual

De inicio ja fiquei impressionado com a velocidade, seu gerenciador de janelas - XFCE4 - está configurado de forma eficiente e com um visual leve, agradável, despoluído e racional. Logo que percebi estava diante do Iceweasel, algo semelhante à fuinha gelada em português de um fork do Firefox, seu visual se integra de forma fluída ao visual do Zenwalk.

Mais imprecionante foi ver que mesmo nesta maquina comsegui tirar vantagen do sistema "composite" do Xfce4 com transparencia real,sombreamento e etç.

Logo instalei o Gnome ao qual estou habituado, a instalação feita seguindo os passos do HOWTO da documentação oficial no site foi simples e rápida. O Gnome rodou ligeiro e sem problemas, para completar ainda escolhi e configurei um visual semelhante ao Ubuntu só para ver se dava e comparar a velocidade, nesse ponto o ganho de velocidade é grande quando se restringe a uma aplicação, apenas se usar mais de uma o sistema se torna lento e instável.

Mas nem tudo saiu direito, notei a ausência de um ícone apontando para o floppy drive, que com uma olhada mais técnica através do "lsmod" notei também a ausência deste (o modulo floppy). A solução foi instalar manualmente, tarefa na qual precisei da ajuda do  suporte feito através do IRC - em inglês! :(

• Suporte a hardware

Também através do lsmod notei certas ausências de drivers mais específicos, sendo sua maioria feita de genéricos, mas isso não impedindo que todo o hardware fosse reconhecido!

Pareceu-me a princípio que ele possui o necessário para a maioria das máquinas, mas não pude verificar dadas as configurações de meu PC, que por si só já é um ponto positivo para ela neste quesito.

• Aplicações multimédia e desenvolvimento

Ferramentas apesar de nem sempre serem as mais conhecidas, como o player de música Gmusicbrownser, são extremamente otimizadas e possuem todas as funções esperadas de um player mais conhecido como o Audacity, para não dizer mais, pois já vem out-of-the-box com capacidade de visualização de capas de álbuns e suporte para arquivos flac e um plug-in in para visualizar as letras da música sendo tocada, com a capacidade de procurar na net on-the-fly.
Ainda tratando da área multimídia, seu player de vídeo Gnome-Mplayer pode lidar com a maioria dos arquivos conhecidos de vídeo e graças a excelente otimização do sistema permite que máquinas, que com outras distros apresentariam "pulos" e "desincronias", se tornem úteis para tais fins novamente!

Também disponível está a ferramenta GnomeBaker e Asounder para gravação e ripagem de CDs, além das usuais ferramentas de console.
No quesito de desenvolvimento ficou claro que ele possui tudo para suportar as compilações mais complexas - me pareceu falho nas ferramentas de apoio ao desenvolvedor. Vindo com a IDE Geany, bem semelhante ao Anjuta, uma ferramenta prática e completa.

• Aplicações gráficas + Office + Internet

Como o prometido existe apenas uma ferramenta para cada função, como editor de texto ela tem Abiword, que dá conta do recado - apesar de não ser de minha preferência. Tocando no assunto, vale lembrar que na instalação default do "desktop" não estavam disponíveis pacotes para a correção ortográfica em português-BR. Fui forçado a instalar depois. Como ferramenta de planilha ela vem com o Gnumeric.

Fiquei muito desapontado ao saber que não havia o gedit, uma ferramenta semelhante ao mousepad, que vem na lista de pacotes padrão, mas que apresenta a função de autocorreção. :(

No campo gráfico novamente apenas uma ferramenta poderosa e completa, como não podia deixar de ser, a aplicação que preenche esta função é o já consagrado GIMP. Ficaram de fora ferramentas para autoria de vídeo e som :( - nada de Cinelerra, uma aplicação de edição de vídeo que vem ganhado grande espaço neste campo.

Um campo também sem ferramenta alguma é a de autoria de som/música, ficando de fora até mesmo dos repositórios oficiais da distro!

• Aplicações de configuração e gerenciamento de pacotes

Nesse campo o Zenwalk 5.2 se destaca - sua solução netpkg é semelhante a algumas soluções conhecidas no Slackware, como slackpkg, que é compatível com o Zenwalk por sinal. No entanto ela vai além, oferecendo suporte a dependências dos pacotes tornando tudo muito mais fácil, confiável, mantendo o sistema enxuto e atualizado.

Não bastasse isso ela possui ainda um front-end para X que torna a instalação de novos programas ou mesmo o KDE e Gnome uma tarefa simples e intuitiva.

Para configurar o sistema existe no ambiente X, o chamado ZenPanel, que unifica quase que por completo todas as tarefas de configuração necessárias para o sistema como um todo, tendo até mesmo uma ferramenta que permite a configuração dos módulos a serem usados na inicialização e também para configurar a inicialização em si.

Posso dizer que nesse campo usuários experientes ficarão surpresos e os inexperientes agradecidos!

• Notas finais e conclusão

Na falta de um tópico mais adequado deixei par fazer os seguintes esclarecimentos aqui:
O kernel é de última geração, tendo sido compilado um pouco diferente do usual, como o Slackware ele possui um sistema de inicialização modular, sendo gerido pelo arquivo modprobe.conf, não havendo os usuais /etc/init.d.

Não compreendi muito bem como funciona e em que implicam tais diferenças, mas é bom deixar registrado (ver seção dúvidas & etc).

Outra coisa que difere no kernel é a ausência das chamadas teclas "mágicas", que permitem dar um boot "frio" em casos extremos - o que me forçou a resetar a máquina algumas vezes - tais teclas tem certas  funcionalidades que podem salvar o usuário em situações inusitadas e acho que deveriam estar incluídas no kernel, apesar de sempre haver a opção de compilá-lo.

Outra característica diferente é o sistema de splash, no boot apesar de visualmente se obter resultados semelhantes ao Ubuntu, seu funcionamento difere bastante, novamente fica em aberto o assunto.

Minhas impressões sobre esta distro nesta versão (5.2) são positivas, ela cumpre o que promete. Sem dúvida a manterei como S.O. principal.
Sendo talvez um pouco polêmico, agora direi que se você vê o Ubuntu como "made for humans beings" e a Slackware "for real nerds", a Zenwalk 5.2 é ambos.

Como diz o site, "Have u Zen computing"

• Dúvidas & comentários

Não me surpreenderia ao ver críticas às minhas conclusões e impressões aqui, além de usuais críticas e correções a este artigo, mas creio serem necessárias e construtivas para mim e para todos que estiverem lendo este artigo.

Só fica aqui meu pedido de que se você teve uma experiência positiva com o Zenwalk 5.2, que a comente, se foi negativa diga porque.

No caso de dúvidas sobre o artigo ou sobre o Zenwalk, deixe um post que tentarei esclarecer e ajudar.

Obrigado, um abraço e fique Zen!

Zenwalk (5.0): La versión completa de Zenwalk, con la cual podrás: navegar por Internet, revisar el correo electrónico de la forma más segura, escuchar música, ver videos, programar en C, Perl, Phyton, Ruby, etc, escanear, imprimir y crear todo tipo de documentos con los últimos programas de oficina y edición fotográfica, ya que Zenwalk siempre se mantiene actualizado.

Descarga aqui Zenwalk 5.0.

Zenwalk Core (4.8): Core es la versión de Zenwalk que viene sin entorno X, ósea que no contiene un escritorio; esta destinada a funcionar como servidor o para crear desde este punto nuestro propios escritorio, compilando las fuentes; también se recomienda para equipos con pocos recursos y un mínimo espacio en disco.

Descarga aqui Zenwalk Core 4.8.

Zenwalk Live (4.8): Esta versión esta destinada a aquellas personas que desean probar el funcionamiento del sistema y conocerlo, antes de instalarlo; un LiveCD muy rápido de ejecutarse y con interesantes conjuntos de programas. Recomendado para principiantes en el mundillo GNU/Linux.

Descarga aqui Zenwalk Live 4.8.

ZenServer (0.5): Esta versión esta destinada a funcionar como servidor, tanto de sitios web, como de correo y más. Esta version convierte a tu robusto o anticuado equipo en un servidor corporativo de alto nivel.

Descarga aqui ZenServer 0.5.

ZenEdu (0.3): Esta versión está enfocada hacia las herramientas educativas y los juegos dedicados a los mas pequeños. La meta principal de este proyecto es dar a los estudiantes y profesores de escuela un sistema operativo estable que pueda estar fácilmente instalado con todas las herramientas necesarias para su trabajo educativo diario. ZenEdu se basa en la version estable de Zenwalk, los programas que no son utiles en la escuela, para el profesor y sus alumnos fueron removidos y se agregaron aplicaciones educativas y juegos que ayuden a el alumno a interactuar con el PC.

Descarga aqui ZenEdu 0.3.

Fuente: ZenWalk en español

O Zenwalk é uma das mais promissoras distribuições Linux. Baseada no Slackware, a dstro é leve, simples e estável.

Decidimos fazer algumas perguntas à Jean-Philippe Guillemin, criador do Zenwalk, a respeito de planos e desenvolvimentos futuros desse "Sistema Operacional GNU/Linux".

Primeiramente, você poderia nos dizer algo sobre você, para uma breve introdução?

Tenho 36 anos, casado e trabalho como Engenheiro de Segurança para a Telindus Corporation. Quando iniciei o projeto Zenwalk costumava mexer com tudo, desde empacotamente, espelhamento, codificação e administração Web. Agora a maioria das tarefas são manejadas pelo time Zenwalk (incluindo projeto de gerenciamento regular). Meu trabalho no Zenwalk está reduzido ao desenvolvimento de ferramentas de administração, configuração do kernel, design do desktop e decisões envolvendo estratégia. Essa organização me permite gastar a maior parte do meu tempo livre em meu hobby principal: guitarra (sou membro dois trios de Jazz), assim como algumas leituras e cuidar da minha família.

Por que você decidiu desenvolver o projeto Zenwalk? O que há de errado com o Slackware?

Comecei o projeto Zenwalk (antigamente Minislack) como um modo de aprender as entranhas do GNU/Linux. Construir um sistema operacional é um ótimo modo para entender isso profundamente porque você fica por conta própria para resolver os problemas quando as coisas não funcionando como esperado.

Na minha opinião, o Slackware é a melhor "Distribuição" no mundo (uma "Distribuição" é uma coleção de aplicativos e ferramentas GNU, compilados em cima do kernek Linux e do Glibc). O Slackware é rápido, confiável, seguro, atualizado e construído com respeito ao espírio Unix. Agradeço ao Patrick Volkerding, o fundador e  quem mantém o Slackware, pelo seu trabalho duro.

O Zenwalk realmente não é projetado para ser uma "Distribuição GNU/Linux", nem um "Sistema Operacional GNU/Linux". Quando você instala o Zenwalk, imediatamente você tem um aplicativo para cada tarefa, otimizada e pronta para uso, juntamente com uma ótima aparência. Os pacotes pré-selecionados são escolhidos cuidadosamente pelos desenvolvedores do Zenwalk para fornecer ao usuário somente os melhores e mais utilizados aplicativos.

Quais são, em sua opinião, as características mais importantes do Zenwalk?

Sensatez e performance! O Zenwalk é projetado para ser um sistema sensato fornecendo somente um aplicativo para a tarefa necessária. Os aplicativos que fornecem a maneira mais fácil e rápida para realizar a tarefa são escolhidas. Isso também tem um lado positivo na instalação: o Zenwalk pode ser instalado em rápidos 5 minutos em sistemas modernos. Desenvolvedores podem começar imediatamente um projeto já que o Zenwalk vem com editores e as bibliotecas mais comumente usadas. Usuários normais podem usar-lo eficientemente para processar textos (Gnome Office) ou tocar arquivos multimídia (todos os codecs do Mplayer estão incluídos) sem adicionar nada. Se quiserem adicionar, por exemplo, o OpenOffice ou Inkscape (uma ótima ferramenta de criação SVG), facilmente são instalados com o netpkg em poucos minutos se tiver uma conexão ADSL razoável.

A meta de performance é alcançada através do projeto do sistema global. ao contrário das grandes distribuições Linux, onde todos pacotes são fornecios com muitas bibliotecas gráficas, de kernel ultra-genéricos, o Zenwalk é projetado para performance da configuração do kernel (CPU e agendadores I/O, seleção de drivers, sistema de arquivos, etc) até o ajuste do ambiente gráfico. É por isso, na maioria das situções, que o Zenwalk é comumente citado como mais rápido que outros moderos sistemas Linux.

Você poderia nos dizer algo sobre os objetivo futuros do desenvolvimento do netpkg?

O netpkg foi reprojetado no Zenwalk 5.2. A nova inferface gráfica fornece uma nova maneira de gerenciamento de pacotes com somente um grande botão para pressionar para realizar praticamente qualquer manpulação. Acredito que esse layout stá perto de ser o melhor, então haverá muitas melhorias na interface gráfica. Duas novas características principais serão desenvolvidas: o "limpador do sistema" (resoluções de dependências órfãs para remover pacotes não utilizados) será adicionado e migração completa do GUI GTK para o ncurses como um modo opicional de operação.

E sobre o desenvolvimento futuro do Zenpanel?

O Zenpanel é mais como um shell para administrar applet com o Xnetconf, e se não tiver mais bugs reportados, ele parece ser estável então não irá evoluir tão tarde. Pr outro lado, os applets irão evoluir. A principal evolução técnica será um reprojetamente completa em gtk-perl. Do ponte de vista funcional: o principal desafio para o Zenpanel será a fusão entre o Xnetconf (GUI de configuração de rede Ethernet) e o Wicd (GUI de configuração de perfis de redes WiFi/Ethernet).

Você está planejando incluir o KDE 4 como um ambiente desktop alternativo para o Zenwalk?

Claro. Nosso mantenedor KDE já está trabalhand nisso. Assim que os pacotes KDE4 se mostrarem estáveis, a comunidade Zenwalk os colocarão no netpkg.

O que poderemos esperar depois do Zenwalk 5.2?

Férias de verão?

Fonte: Matteo Campofiorito@OneOpenSource

And now... time for something boring...

As of late I have been messing with Zenwalk Linux...and to be honest... though I love the distro for what it is. It doesn't have quite everything that I would prefer it to have... so I'm kinda conflicted... it doesn't have IPv6 support... and compiling most stuff for it doesn't work... mostly because it doesn't have the dependencies.. and I don't know how to even install dependencies... maybe I should look into that... but.. anyway... so I was thinking of returning back to Ubuntu just so I can have my cake and eat it to... so to speak.. but I'm not sure... If anyone ever bothers comparing those two distros... don't hesitate to tell me what you think of both in a side by side comparison...

bah... I'm bored now... and I don't know what to do anymore... I need to get a job soon... just so I have something to do during the day when I don't have summer classes... and so I can actually have money to do stuff... ah... I'm done for now... I need to plan out my next post so that it will actually be worth reading... I don't know if it will make any global impact but... if it can somehow change how someone thinks... then that will make me happy... I'm done for now... peace.

"Stay Zen"

-SA (SerenadedAbyss)

في هذا الموضوع لا اريد ان اتكلم عن مميزات لينكس كنظام تشغيل و لن اسرد حقائق و ارقام عن ادائه في السرعة او ثباته كسيرفر لاكبر الشركات . و لكن اريد ان ابين السبب الاخر الذي يجعل من استخدامنا للينكس ضرورة اخلاقية في المرتبة الاولى .

محدثكم في هذا الموضوع استخدم لينكس لاول مرة في العام 98 بنسخة ريدهات المشهورة و يعتبر هذا قديم نسبيا لو علمنا ان اللينكس بدا حياته العام 90-91 و لكن لاسباب كثيرة تركت العمل عليه و عدت الى ويندوز 98.

الشاهد استمريت على استخدام نسخ ويندوز و كان يزعجني ضعف النظام الى جاء ويندوز اكس بي و كان افضل غيره . ثم عدت الى استخدام لينكس مرة اخرى و الان يوجد لدي ثلاث اجهزة حاسب كلها تعمل على لينكس زينوالك و فيدورا و اوبنتو. هذا و لا يوجد على اي من الحواسيب نظام ويندوز كنظام ثاني . الى الان و على الرغم من التطور المذهل للينكس خلال اعوام قليلة لا ادعي انه النظام الكامل بل هو بعيد جدا عن ذلك . و قد تتفاوت توزيعات لينكس في سرعتها و ثباتها و غيره . نعم لينكس ليس افضل نظام تشغيل فقد يتغلب عليه ويندوز من ناحية كثرة البرامج و الالعاب و قد يتغلب عليه سولارس في السرعة و قد و قد ...

و لكن يبقى لينكس مميزا في اكثر من نقطة . فلا الويندوز يقاربه في السرعة و الثبات و سهولة التطويع و لا سولارس يجاريه في دعمه انواعا مختلفة من العتاد . فهنا نأتي لاول نقطة تميز لينكس و هي انه نظام مرن لاقصى حد فهو ان شئت مشغل لاجهزة الهواتف النقالة و هو ان شئت سيرفر انترنت من الطراز الاول و هو ان شئت استديو تطوير افلام ثلاثية الابعاد و هو ان شئت نظام تشغيل منزلي و هو ان شئت نظام تطوير برمجي .

نعم لم ار نظام تشغيل يعطيك الحرية المطلقة في بناء نظامك و تشكيله من الصفر الى النهاية كلينكس . هذه ايضا ليست صلب الموضوع فالذي اريد قوله اني لم اعرف قيمة لينكس الا عندما بدات البرمجة نعم فقد ادركت ان هذا التعب في البرمجة لا يجوز لي اخلاقيا فضلا عن دينيا ان اسرقه من احدهم باستخدام كراك!! مع الاسف اننا كعرب لا نستطيع ان نقول لشخص تحول الى لينكس لانه مجاني !!! فهو فعلا يستخدم نظام ويندوز مجاني ! لا بل الادهى اوفيس مجاني و فوتوشوب مجاني ...الخ

فهل يعقل ان يرضى شخص بهدر حقوق الاخرين و البديل المجاني موجود فهو ذنب مركب ..!

فهذا الموضوع عبارة عن دعوة للعودة الى الذات و سؤال النفس هل يجوز ان نهدر حقوق الاخرين بقرصنة برامجهم و تعبهم و السؤال الاخر هل كنت مستعدا لدفع هذه المبالغ لشراء البرامج لو لم يكن لديك خيارا ؟

و قبل ان اسرد بعض النقاط التي تسهل عملية انتقالك الى لينكس و تخطي العقبات . اريد ان الفت نظرك الى نقطة و هي انه ليس ميكروسوفت من تضع المعايير بل نحن من يضعها بدعمنا لمعايير ميكروسوفت ، فما الذي يجعل دوك الصيغة الافتراضية للملفات النصية ؟؟

الان اختم بنقاط مختصرة مهمة ربما تسهل عملية انتقالك الى لينكس اذا كنت فعلا اقتنعت بأنه هناك حاجة اخلاقية للانتقال !

1- حاول ان تجرب لينكس من على الاسطوانة مباشرة فهذا سيبين لك ما الاجهزة التي تتعرف بدون حاجة لتدخلك و ابشرك ! فلينكس يتعرف على معظم العتاد بدون مساعدتك و لا يحتاج للتعريفات الا نادرا ...

2- اذا وجدت عتادا لم يتعرف فابحث عن طريقة تعريفه و الارشيف على الانترنت ضخم جدا فلا تيأس..

3- هذه النقطة مهمة : ابدا بنسخ لينكس السهلة الموجهة للمستخدم الجديد و التي تضاهي ويندوز سهولة مثل اوبنتو و PCLINUXOS و ماندريفا و حذاري من الدخول مباشرة في توزيعات مثل جينتو و ارش لينكس من البداية .

4- اختر واجهة النظام الاسهل مثل جينوم و كيدي و لا تبدا بxfce و غيرها ..

5- حدد ماذا تريد من لينكس مثلا لو كنت اريد توزيعة خاصة بالسيرفر فسأختار توزيعة مخصصة للسيرفر كمثال زينوالك يوجد لها اصدار خاص بالسيرفر و اخر للمستخدم المنزلي و اخر للتعليمي فليس من المنطق ان انصب النسخة التعليمية ثم احولها لسيرفر او العكس ! ..

ايضا ليس من المنطق ان تحشر كل ما ترى من برامج اكتفي بالذي تحتاجه فعلا..

6- لا تحاول تشغيل برامج ويندوز على لينكس لانه مخالف لمبدا الاخلاق الا اذا كنت ستشغل برنامجا مجانيا ..بل اكتف بالبديل ...

7- بخصوص البرامج في لينكس اذا كنت مهتما بالبرامج كثيرا فاختر توزيعة مثل اوبنتو فهي تحوي مخازن ضخمة للبرامج مما يسهل عملية التنصيب فتكون مجرد اختيار ثم تنصيب .. هذا في حال لو انك اخترت توزيعة تحتاج للبناء من المصدر او مخازنها صغيرة فستصعب على نفسك المهمة و تزيد وجعا لراسك الكريم !

8- في لينكس يوجد شيء اسمه بديل فلان برنامج و ليس فلان برنامج نفسه ! اقصد كمثال لو كنت تريد كتابة ملف نصي فستسخدم بديل الاوفيس و هو الاوبن اوفيس فعليك بالتعود على طريقة عمله فهو ليس ميكروسوفت اوفيس !! و لا الجيمب هو الفوتوشوب فعليك بتوطين نفسك بسعة الصدر في التعلم و التجربة و لا يعني هذا ان البرامج البديلة صعبة بالعكس هي سهلة فعلا و شبيهة ببرامج ويندوز و لكن قد تبدو غريبة علينا لاننا تعودنا على برامج معينة !.

9- تقبل هذه النقطة (( لينكس يعطيك اشياء كثيرة و لكن لا يعطيك ويندوز )) نعم فهو يعطيك اشياء جبارة لا حصر لها مثل كومبايز الرائع و لكن لا تنصدم اذا عرفت ان بديل المسنجر في لينكس لا يستطيع ان يظهر سكربتات ام اس ان بلس !! فهذه اشياء صغيرة يمكن التغاضي عنها ..

10- استمتع بنظــــــــــامك فأنت حــــــــــــر !...

I first stopped using Slackware shortly after the release of version 11.0 because I was a tad wound up by the default kernel option, which in turn resulted in there being no HAL available without considerable messing about. I didn't turn completely away from Slackware at this point though, my new love became Zenwalk. Zenwalk, which was named mini-slack in previous versions, is basically a cut-down version of Slackware that has been optimised for i686 processors. It featured a custom-written auto-mount tool for handling devices and there was also a package management tool which handled dependencies as well (I'm not sure which program it was based on, but didn't really care either, it worked really well and was capable of a full system-upgrade when a new version came out).
I did use Slackware 11.0 for a while on my laptop because at the time it was the only distro I could force to make my sound card work. The sound card in my laptop has a Realtek ALC883 chipset that was only supported in versions of alsa later than 1.0.13.

I think I went a bit off-topic there... The laptop sound card story is actually quite a long one...

I was really curious about trying out Slackware 12.1 after listening to a podcast from Linux Reality in which Chess talks for half an hour about how much he likes Slackware... as you can tell, I'm not at all influenced by the media... ...it's episode 99 if you're interested... Well it wasn't just the fact that he likes it that swayed me, more specifically I was intrigued by the idea of Slackbuilds. Slackbuilds are something that I hadn't heard of in the days of Slack 9/10 and it seemed like a great system for building packages from source. For more info read about it all on the Slackbuilds.org (clicky) website. I have used this system to build a lot of packages and it's never failed.

Anyway... gonna wrap this up now... I don't remember where I was going with this post.

Slackware rocks! XD ...and it's really fast...

Damn Small Linux 4.4

• Arrancar desde un CD de formato tarjeta a un entorno independiente de su disco duro.
• Arrancar desde una memoria USB.
• Arrancar "dentro" de un S.O. anfitrión (por ejemplo, puede arrancarse dentro de Windows).
• Correr sin trabas desde una tarjeta Compact Flash IDE mediante un método llamado "instalación frugal".
• Transformarse en una distribución Debian tradicional tras instalarse en un disco duro.
• Mantener funcionando aceptablemente rápido un 486DX con 16MB de RAM.
• Correr completo desde memoria en tan poco como 128MB.
• Crecer modularmente.

¿Y qué tiene de nuevo esta versión? Principalmente mejoras en desempeño. Los detalles de cambios están aquí.

ZenWalk 5.2

ZenWalk es una mini-distribución de GNU/Linux, también para equipos de baja capacidad aunque es una distro no tan limitada como DSL.

¿Qué hay de nuevo? La versión 5.2 incluye casi 500 cambios a los paquetes de software, principalmente de actualizaciones y correcciones de errores. Los cambios más notables son la actualización del kernel de Linux y una nueva versión del escritorio Xfce. La lista completa de cambios está aquí.

Más información en:

• Damn Small Linux (DSL) en español
• www.zenwalk.org

OK I'll take some moral fibre pills, get an injection of backbone, check my backups are good, pray to Saint IGNUcius for guidance and generally pull my finger out of my arse. Watch this space ( if you are really really bored or optimistic).

Mai intai niste definitii: Linux este un kernel (nucleu de sistem de operare) scris de un finlandez (parca) - Linus Torvalds. Diverse organizatii au folosit acest kernel pentru a construi un sistem de operare. Un sistem de operare care foloseste kernelul Linux este numit distributie. Acum intrebarea "Ce Linux sa-mi instalez?" devine "Ce distributie de Linux sa folosesc?".

Cele mai importante si care stau la baza majoritatii celorlalte distributii sunt: Debian, Slackware si RedHat. Dintre cele mai potrivite pentru utilizarea acasa sunt Ubuntu, Mandriva, Zenwalk, OpenSUSE, Fedora.

Ubuntu este o distributie sponsorizata de firma Canonical, bazata pe Debian, care are cea mai mare raspandire in momentul de fata. Este distributia pe care o folosesc de 18 luni si sunt deplin multumit de ea. Are o interfata consistenta (eu folosesc varianta Kubuntu, cu interfata KDE), vine cu software gratuit care satisface aproape toate necesitatile utilizatorului obisnuit: browser de web, clienti de e-mail, ftp, torrent, IRC, instant messaging, news, blog, programe de tip office, medii de programare, playere multimedia, DVD player, software de scris CD si DVD, programe de editare audio, foto, video, modelare 3D, CAD, jocuri etc. Are un sistem automat de actualizari si un Control Centre foarte detaliat. Recomandarea mea este Kubuntu, adica Ubuntu + KDE.

Mandriva (cunoscuta si ca Mandrake) este o distributie creata de o firma franceza si foloseste elemente din RedHat. Este prima distributie pentru desktop care m-a atras si pe care am folosit-o. Vine cu o multitudine de pachete software, ca si Ubuntu, dar e ceva mai dificil sa adaugi software nou, care nu e furnizat de Mandriva. Poate era vina mea - eram familiarizat cu Debian si nu m-am straduit sa invat sa folosesc Mandriva. Am renuntat la Mandriva pentru Ubuntu numai pentru ca Ubuntu are un sistem mai usor si mai flexibil de instalare/dezinstalare de software.

Zenwalk este o distributie relativ noua, bazata pe Slackware. Mai exact este un Slackware cu minim de software preinstalat. De asemenea utilizeaza interfata Xfce, care este foarte configurabila si necesita mult mai putine resurse decat interfetele mai "mari" cum ar fi KDE sau Gnome. Ca sa ofer un termen de comparatie, diferenta de viteza intre un Linux + KDE si un Linux + Xfce este aproximativ care intre Windows XP si Windows 98. Il recomand pentru computere mai vechi - mie mi-a mers bine pe un Pentium 3 Celeron la 500MHz.

OpenSUSE este o distributie creata de firma SUSE (achizitionata de Novell). Sistemul de instalare de software este preluat de la RedHat (un motiv in plus sa nu o folosesc :D ). Am evaluat-o si mi-a placut, nu am gasit probleme si nu a fost nimic ce Ubuntu putea face si OpenSUSE nu. Ca sa il citez pe un prieten care a folosit-o o perioada mai indelungata: "rigoare germana" (Firma SUSE a fost o firma germana inainte sa fie achizitionata de Novell). O recomand pentru firme, adica pentru medii in care ai nevoie de un computer care sa functioneze si care nu necesita frecvente instalari/dezinstalari de software.

Fedora este varianta gratuita a RedHat. Niciodata nu am avut o parere buna despre RedHat, deoarece ei au fost mereu altfel. In ce sens? Simplu: ei sunt o companie care traieste din vanzarea de software, din suport tehnic si din cursuri de instruire. Daca RedHat Linux ar fi construit ca si celelalte distributii de Linux, atunci un administrator care a lucrat cu Debian sau cu Slackware sau cu SUSE ar fi capabil sa administreze si RedHat; da, ati inteles, atunci nu ar mai fi nevoiti sa cumpere cursuri de instruire sau suport tehnic. Faptul ca e diferit m-a facut mereu sa bajbai cand a trebuit sa configurez/repar un RedHat si a trebuit mereu sa invat cum se face un lucru in Linux si cum se face in RedHat. Concluzia? Am abandonat RedHat :D Am mai testat Fedora anul trecut si nu am avut decat o singura neplacere, dar majora: dupa un update important nu a mai vrut sa porneasca... Nu o recomand decat celor care cunosc personal un expert in Linux si il pot intreba toate cele.

Cred ca am spus prea multe si nu foarte coerent. Sper doar sa nu fi indepartat nici un potential utilizator de Linux....

هذا فيديو عملته لكي نتعرف على البرنامج الرائع و الخفيف و السريع جيني Geany و نأخذ مثالين احدهما بيرل و الاخر سي بلس بلس ...

الفيديو على يوتيوب :

الجودة تبدو ضعيفة في يوتيوب .. هذا ملف عالي الجودة :

out2

سأتكلم اليوم عن طريقة تشغيل الوايرلس من شركة broadcom  و هي المعروفة بأنها من اصعب العمليات في تعريف العتاد ..

اصحاب الاوبنتو طريقة التنصيب سهلة عندهم و لا تحتاج للشرح و لكن اصحاب الزينوالك و الفيدورا ربما تكون اصعب .. سنحاول اليوم تشغيل كرت الوايرلس عن طريق ال ndiswrapper و هو برنامج خاص لتشغيل الوايرلس عن طريق تعريفة الويندوز.

بسم الله نبدا :

1- نقوم بتنصيب البرنامج في الزينوالك فقط قم بتحميله من النت باكج منجر .. اما فيدورا فستحتاج الى :

ا- قم بتحرير الملف :

/etc/yum.conf
و ضع به هذه الاسطر :
[livna]
name=Livna for Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.lvn
        http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.lvn
        http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/livna/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.lvn
        http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.lvn
#mirrorlist=http://rpm.livna.org/mirrorlist
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1

gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-livna

ب- في سطر الاوامر : 

yum install ndiswrapper kernel-module-ndiswrapper-$(uname -r)

2- الان قم بانشاء مجلد و ضع به تعريف الوايرلس الخاصة بويندوز الملفين موجودين في اخر التدوينة لكرت
bc4318 و اما اذا كان لديك كرت اخر فعليك القيام باحضار التعريفة الخاصة بويندوز من نفس الرابط في اخر
التدوينة..

3- الان اذهب من سطر الاوامر الى المجلد الذي فيه تعريفة الويندوز و ادخل الامر التالي
/usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf

بيطلع لك شيء زي كذا :
Installing bcmwl5
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2

Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
4- الان للتأكد من ان التعريفة تم تنصيبها بشكل صحيح ادخل الامر
/usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -l
بيطلع لك شيء زي كذا :
Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5          driver present, hardware present

5- نشغل المودل : modprobe ndiswrapper
6- الان ضع الجملة : alias wlan0 ndiswrapper
داخل الملف : 
/etc/modprobe.conf

انتهينا فقط قبل ان تعيد التشغيل تأكد من انه اذا كنت منصب قبل هذه العملية برنامج b43 فعليك بوضعه في
البلوك ليست لكي لا يكون هناك تعارض ...

و اما ملفات التعريف الخاصة بـ bcm4318 و غيرها من كروت الوايرلس الخاصة بالويندوز هاذي هي :-

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/joomla/index.php?/component/option,com_openwiki/Itemid,33/id,list_b/

حظا موفقا و لا يغركم ترى العملية بسيطة ..