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hyperion
 Post subject: small review
PostPosted: Sat Jun 26, 2010 7:00 am 
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http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/jamies-mos ... -10017740/

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 Post subject: Re: small review
PostPosted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 1:51 pm 
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"Ive said many times before that I really like the Xfce desktop, and Zenwalk is a particularly good example of it."
I totally agree. Zenwalk does XFCE better than any other distro I have tried. Obviously, anyone can tweak XFCE with various themes and icons and whatever; but the default out of the box Zen-XFCE is the best that I have seen.

"I'd love to see Zenwalk make a netbook-oriented distribution, it could quickly become my favorite...
I totally agree here also. Ever since the Asus eee PC series of netbooks came out, I have always felt that Zenwalk was the ideal distro for netbooks. The fact that Zenwalk is light and fast on low end laptops, and yet still very beginner friendly makes the Zen-netbook a perfect marriage imo. Zenwalk would certainly have been much better than that Xandros based OS that shipped with the original eee PCs.
At the very least, a Zen-netbook edition would be a formidable competitor for Moblin and Ubuntu Netbook Remix.
Zenwalk is proof that linux can be beginner friendly without becoming a bloated resource hogging mess like some of the more propular distros have become.

Hey, I think I just wrote another mini review! ;)
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 Post subject: Re: small review
PostPosted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 8:55 am 
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http://www.itnewstoday.com/?p=1686
another review :)
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 Post subject: Re: small review
PostPosted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 3:49 pm 
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Ah - really great! Thank you stillborn for pointing it out.

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 Post subject: Re: small review
PostPosted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 4:25 pm 
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yes, great ... although I still believe that Netpkg is years ahead its challengers in term of usability !!

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 Post subject: Re: small review
PostPosted: Sun Jul 18, 2010 6:53 am 
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Next review could be on Distrowatch - tomorrow:

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116 • Zenwalk (by Jesse on 2010-07-16 18:00:27 GMT from Canada)
Re: 115 Zenwalk,

I have done a review of Zenwalk and, all going well, it will appear in Monday's edition of DWW.


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 Post subject: Re: small review
PostPosted: Sun Jul 18, 2010 10:23 am 
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hyperion wrote:
yes, great ... although I still believe that Netpkg is years ahead its challengers in term of usability !!

;D


Which is the actual problem, if you consider it as one.What actually happens is the new user is not actually used to the interface and it takes him a while before he understands it (This is the theory that i have, though i dont see myself how difficult it is to understand the interface given the tooltips). And for him it is not quite easy to use it until he understands it.
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 Post subject: Re: small review
PostPosted: Sun Jul 18, 2010 11:21 am 
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the new user is not actually used to the interface


Yes :)

Saying that Netpkg is not user-friendly, is similar to a driver who's used to manual gearbox when he first discover automatic gearbox : for him it's not driver friendly !

The same could happen to a Windows user used to a system where any new device needs proprietary drivers to be installed by a Windows wizard : he can't understand that most devices are supported out of the box by the Linux kernel : too simple for him :)

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 12:21 pm 
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http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue ... 19#feature
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 2:05 pm 
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Hi there. A nice review ... :) ... also very good comments by JP.
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 Post subject: Re: small review
PostPosted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 5:34 pm 
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I apologize for calling Debian "fat"

Sorry :-[
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 5:53 pm 
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hyperion wrote:
I apologize for calling Debian "fat"


It can be turned around and say you didn't mean Debian per se, but Debian-based more bloated distros was the aim of that comment.

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 5:57 pm 
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It can be turned around and say you didn't mean Debian per se, but Debian-based more bloated distros was the aim of that comment.


yes :) indeed... someone should point this on Distrowatch ....
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 11, 2010 7:25 pm 
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/spo ... cktabs_1=1 :)
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 11, 2010 9:00 pm 
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Nice to read :)

Thanks for pointing it !
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