Laurie Brown wrote:
Via this LUG, I picked up a reference to Zenwalk (www.zenwalk.org) the other day. I had a quick peek at the site, and downloaded the full ISO. With that, I had a fully functioning, nice and fast, XFCE desktop on an old P3 (Packard Bell Imedia, YUK!) with 128meg running in less than 15 mins. It would take a bit longer to get KDE or Gnome on it I expect, and it'd be slower, but I was EXTREMELY impressed with it. From what I can gather, it's slackware based, and does have a packaging system that works well, if the choice is still a little limited. It's definitely worth a look-see.
That was probably me. I have it on an old 1 gig celeron with 128 RAM and it faily zips along. Most of the gnome stuff is already there - it's mainly the kde stuff that has been stripped out - so a gnome desktop should not be too hard to get going. Personally I much prefer xfce. It is slackware based which is good for me because my other PC rune slack 10.2 so configuration is near identical.
Zenwalk's hardware detection is excellent (better than slackware), it has a current 2.6x kernel and the appfinder is a godsend. I love it.
ian