Zenwalk Linux (100% Slackware)

In this episode of the CyberGizmo - The Pursuit of Slack with Zenwalk Linux

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[slacker]

About 15 years ago I used to get my students to individually install Zenwalk on the lab systems in order to teach them they had to read and understand pop-up boxes before clicking on OK. We'd then use the systems to set up a network and samba to set up shares and manage a local server. Practical part of an operating systems module.

[Bitwise]

Never tried SLS. Slackware was my first foray into the unix-like world. Oh, that pile of floppies! I run Slackware proper, but have never tried Zenwalk. You've got me interested. I'll have to give it a spin.

[eznix]

Nice thing about LILO is no need for the bios-boot partition on a GPT disk in a legacy bios system, LILO fits entirely in the MBR and does not need extra space in the gap between the MBR and the first partition. Cool video. Thanks.

[JD-imwu]

anyways, went ahead an deleted my ego driven comments that were fueled by caffeine overdose, truth be told Slackware was at one time my favorite distro and helped me grow, I can't talk down on them even if I switched to Debian now and find them more relevant today. Its still a great distro especially for the history of Linux.

[AdamTime]

python 2.7 been forked till some major progams catch up. Great video thanks

[encapsulatio]

Can you do a Slackware or Zenwalk up to date video please? Maybe get into what you think about it compared to "modern linux" distros.
From what I've seen most reviews on distrowatch hammer a lot that it's stabler than most stable releases from other main distros and also faster than them even though they use more antiquated approach to configuring things.

[TheDrunkenAlcoholic]

I remember my first experience with Linux, I bought a computer magazine that had 12 floppy disks with slackware on it, it took me days and many reformattings of the HD before I finally got it installed and working, seeing the the install screens bought back to horrible memory of installation and LILO, I think my second experience with linux was also a disk on a computer magazine with Red hat linux version 3 or 4 if I remember correctly.

[daol]

nice to see a slackware video, my only complain on this video however is that you did't show the package mananger the zenwalk: Netpkg package manager or App Outlet for flatpaks

[leeh.]

"It is an old approach..." so is that approach better or are we currently pointed in the systemd direction that's probably necessary? And oh man...I was wanting to see that Lynix score :) If Lynix gives it a higher score out of the box due to systemd...is systemd a security vector? And it's too late now I guess.
This looks like a cool distro...373MB...wow! And Zenmap installed by default? Now that's cool. And I like the XFCE desktop. One of my favorite distros is Linux Lite and that's what they use. I'm currently using LL as a small server here at my home. Runs fast on a 5 year old Lenovo desktop with 8GB of RAM.
Slackware was the first real DE distro I looked at. My first look at Linux was Knoppix. I got it from a Computer mag. Then I found Slackware on the Inter-webs. I tried to follow along in it for about 3 days...never figured out how to get the ISO and get it running. That's when I googled and found Puppy Linux...which I used off and on for about a year or so. Super cool video DJ...thanks!

[JD-imwu]

slackware was the distro i used back in the 90's. back then it was built for its time....fast foward 2020 got pretty dusty. i have a love and hate relationship with slackware mostly Love. I blame the redhats and ubuntu's that put hte nails in slackware coffin filling userland with non unixy ways, rumour has it that slackware still lives. its true last release was 14.02 in 2016 with a current stream still in works. all jokes aside slackware with all the junk of packages in its full install worked like a Ford Mustang. throw it at any system and it runs and you can feel its power too.

[JD-imwu]

...between the Slackware of the 90's and the Debian of the now's... these 2 can't compare slackware easily takes the crown (for its time). now when i use debian im like mehhh but can't complain too much. but slackware was something else. I guess now the "new" closest thing to slackware philosophy is the BSD's not even Linux to get something with less headache for 2020's. Unfortunately I never tried FreeBSD before in my life as much of the nice things I heard. I used slackwares own philiosophy of if it aint broke don't fix it and stuck to debian lol sorry Patrick Volkerding but that Apt-get and its abundance of packages and stability got me too lazy to distro hop.

[lorisbari]

A mi parece que el lema de Slackware 'KISS' -Keep It Simple Stupid- debes remplazarse por KIS&S (keep it simple and stupid) porque es estúpido obligarte a "instalarte" en tu cabeza todos los comandos de UNIX y pensar para dirigir todo y como los 'demonios' hacen en Linux; ¿dónde está la inteligencia artificial entonces? Espero una versión de Zenwalk con slpkg de balde y activado el repositorio slonly, para poder instalar facilmente por consola los paquete que uno necesita, con todas la dependencias automáticamente. Con Clementine para poder visualizar todo el playlist (ah! se me olvidaba que en mi PC no logré que Pulseaudio reproduzca ningún archivo audio) y por lo menos mupdf instalado, para poder abrir archivos PDF. En fin, o logran instalar Microsoft Office en Linux o incluir las app (como Peppermint) para usarlo desde la nube con cuenta Hotmail; porque LibreOffice no abre correctamente archivos .pptx y .xlsx (no estoy de acuerdo en virtualizar Windows, pero si no queda otra :)

En algo Slackware (Zenwalk 15.0) no le puede ganar a Debian (Mephis-antiX Linux 19.3) y son los 55.000 paquetes compilados (listos para ser instalados en un par de clics ; )

Mejor instalo MX Linux 19.3 "patito feo" AHS -Advanced Hardware Support- que hace todo solo, tiene un cubo verde para las actualicación y un icono para regular la luminosiad de la pantalla a la derecha del escritorio.
Es Debian estable y liviano (unos 600 Mb de RAM conta unos 500 Mb de Zenwalk 15.0 "Santa Claus") Semi-Rolling y siempre con SysV. El mejor!
Posdata: aconsejo instalar Vivaldi en MX Linux pues es mucho más rápido (con la misma engine de Chromium -aún para Windows-). Si bien Google va a obligar que todos utilicen Chrome, si quieren que funcionen las app :(

Luego diría Linux Mint LMDE "Debby" (Debian puro, no Ubuntu) pero pesadito porque viene solo con Cinnamon, en fin Mint 19.3 "Tricia" XFCE (pero Ubuntu y ambos con SystemD).

Para una PC con pocos recursos Peppermint, que está por salir en la versión 11 (ojalá Debian puro y ya no Ubuntu) LXDE, que consume menos recursos.

Con ironía, para aquellos que tienen máquinas nuevas, pavían en Facebook y utilizan la PC casi solo como "Playstation", pueden meterle el estético "mega-virus-troyano" chino, Deepin Wuhan Tecnology Co., Ltd. :o)