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Zenwalk Linux 7.2 aims for "100% Slackware compatibility"

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 6 comments
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The latest release of Zenwalk Linux, version 7.2, is now available and focuses on further improving the Slackware-based distribution's overall performance, as well as updating its underlying components. Project founder Jean-Philippe Guillemin says that the goal of the new version was to "achieve 100% Slackware Linux compatibility," while also keeping and improving upon most of the optimisations throughout all levels of the OS, including the kernel, applications and desktop.

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Comments (6)

slacker_mike ·
I tried Zenwalk in the past and found it to be a decent spin-off of Slackware marred by one of the worst package managers I have ever had the displeasure of using, Netpkg. Netpkg is so bad it will make you appreciate the pkgtools that Slackware comes with.
caitlyn ·
Um... no. Just no. That must have been quite a long time in the past. The last few times I looked at Zenwalk I found Netpkg to be quite good. Besides, nothing will ever make me appreciate Slackware's lack of automated dependency checking. For me, in 2012, it's entirely unacceptable.
Steven_Rosenber ·
What about slapt-get and Gslapt? Those aren't in Zenwalk?
slacker_mike ·
When I tried Zenwalk it just shipped Netpkg, but that was a couple years ago.
Steven_Rosenber ·
The first time I ran Gslapt and slapt-get on Slackware, it was like the parting of the Red Sea.
jdixon ·
> When I tried Zenwalk it just shipped Netpkg, but that was a couple years ago.

Ditto. It didn't have slapt-get or gslapt at the time I looked at it. At least, not that I knew of. I don't think it even had slackpkg.

The startup guide for Zenwalk 6 (http://manual.zenwalk.org/startup_guide/zenwalk6_startup_gui...) still only mentions netpkg. However, it appears that slapt-get and gslapt are available in the repositories.

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