[Sussex] Zenwalk 5.0

[Vicky Lamburn]

Hello,

I've been trying out Zenwalk 5.0 the past few days on my ThinkPad and so far
it's been pretty good. I think it was released just over a week ago. It's
based on Slackware but it's a bit more bleeding edge such as having
Xorg 7.3and a more recent
2.6 kernel.

It also runs the Xfce desktop, much like Xubuntu and others and it's
actually very very good. I've been able to use it a bit today as I'm off
work having done a bit too much over the weekend and have done my back in :(
Naturally a bit lost as to what to do, distro surfing seemed an idea!

Had very minimal problems with it but so far I have been impressed at how
well it works and it's very fast. I'm even pondering over whether to replace
my Ubuntu install with Zenwalk as the 7.10 release of Ubuntu seems to have
introduced a number of bugs (which I fixed by poking around in the ACPI
scripts) but my bug reports seem to have gone no where. Which is a shame as
I have this horrible feeling that they're rushing to implement the latest
and greatest without locking down what they have done and making it as close
to bullet proof as possible.

We'll see what Hardy (8.04 Long Term Support) comes up with but at this rate
I can see me switching distro.

Highly recommended for all systems I think. Mines a fairly modest system now
as it's five years ago (which i cannot believe, it's gone so quickly,
Pentium M 1.5/Intel Pro Wireless 2100B/1GB RAM/160GB HD/Radeon 7500) it
should run well on a PIII and even a fast-ish PII as well (350-400MHz
range.)

Vicky
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