Editing COMP 3000 2011 Report: Zenwalk

Part 1

Background

Zenwalk Linux is a desktop Operating System built using the Linux environment. It is built on the Linux 2.26.x kernel base.

Originally called "Minislack"<ref name="Zenwalk Manual">Zenwalk Manual, http://manual.zenwalk.org/startup_guide/zenwalk6_startup_guide_en.pdf/</ref>, Zenwalk is the brainchild of Jean-Philippe Guillemin in 2005. Zenwalk Linux is based on Slackware Linux<ref name="COMP 3000 Report of Slackware">COMP 3000 Report on Slackware http://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/wiki/index.php/COMP_3000_2011_Report:_Slackware_13.37/</ref>, a robust Linux distribution faithful to the spirit of UNIX. Zenwalk is regarded as one of the fastest Linux distributions available in a binary version<ref name="Zenwalk Manual"/>. It is intended to be user-friendly for people who are both computer newbie's and Linux/Unix newbie's. The LiveCD is ~687MB in size, while the Standard .iso is closer to ~520MB in size.

Zenwalk was designed with the following objectives:<ref name="Zenwalk Manual"/>

• Be simple and fast
• Provide one application for one task on the install CD
• Be a complete development/desktop environment
• Be small enough to distribute on a single CD-ROM

Zenwalk is optimized for the i686 instruction set, but is backward compatible with i486.

The minimum hardware requirements for Zenwalk are:<ref name="Zenwalk">Zenwalk Homepage, http://www.zenwalk.org/</ref>

• Pentium III class processor
• 256 MB RAM
• 4 GB HDD space

Zenwalk is localized into many language installations, including French<ref name="ZW French">Zenwalk French, http://zenwalk-fr.org/</ref>, Spanish<ref name="ZW Spanish">Zenwalk Spanish, http://www.zenwalk-es.tk/</ref>, Hungarian<ref name="ZW Hungarian">Zenwalk Hungarian, http://hu.zenwalk.org/</ref>, Polish<ref name="ZW Polish">Zenwalk Polish, http://www.zenwalk.netne.net/</ref>, and more.

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