Zenwalk 6.2 has been released !

litvinovandrew · **Joined:** Thu Feb 26, 2009 3:35 pm **Posts:** 7

When will be Zenwalk Gnome 6.2?

HER0_01 · **Posted:** Tue Sep 08, 2009 6:24 am

litvinovandrew wrote:

When will be Zenwalk Gnome 6.2?

There won't be a Zenwalk Gnome 6.2 unless somebody picks up the project. You can install standard 6.2 and then install gnome through netpkg, along with any different applications that zen gnome may have had. If you uninstall xfce, it is nearly the same as if you installed gnome from the start

franco · **Joined:** Fri Dec 28, 2007 2:36 pm **Posts:** 1287

Everything works good, install lilo over my grub whithout problem, install lilo-fix from zen 6, wicd new version has solved my problem, I found that the icon problem whit Iceweasel depends about my use whit
Clarity. No Intel graphic problem.
I feel a lucky man and thank to all you again.

kuronin · **Joined:** Mon Sep 07, 2009 10:04 pm **Posts:** 1

Most of the stuff seems to be working, but there's no sound. Just to check, I formatted the partition and reverted to 6.0. Yeah, the sound came back. I have an Intel Motherboard with integrated sound. The Mixer in both 6.0 & 6.2 listed it as Intel 82801DB-ICH4 (Alsa Mixer).

So Zenwalk 6.0 is still the best Linux distro I've seen till date, sorry guys.

(even compared to Vector & the puplets) I didn't know where else to post this...

erGo · **Joined:** Wed Sep 09, 2009 6:01 am **Posts:** 1

Please add my mirror as temporary:

http://perl6.org.ua/private/zenwalk-6.2.iso

It is located in UA-IX/DE-IX. It will be permanently accessible near one month, then it will be changed and I'll notify you about it. It's my own VPS.

sandal · **Joined:** Tue Jun 12, 2007 7:21 pm **Posts:** 41

Man, I really need a new machine to try this release of Zenwalk.
Not a brand new one, a new secondhand machine will great for me

z2501 · **Joined:** Thu Aug 09, 2007 2:13 am **Posts:** 284

I have been experiencing problems when I try to watch DVDs because there is problem with one of the plugins. Has this problem being solved in this new release???

thanks! I am happy to see 6.2 finally available. Great job!!!

-2501

Twalker · **Joined:** Wed Sep 09, 2009 2:41 pm **Posts:** 1

kuronin wrote:

So Zenwalk 6.0 is still the best Linux distro I've seen till date, sorry guys.

That's what I'm thinking, ZW 6.0 is the the best I'd ever tested on several hardware and also in VM's. $\D/$
In ZW 6.2 I cant even move an item in the taskbar when thunar is open, thunar is closing.

>>add. comment<<
I did another installation on a d610. after login I open thunar. In the taskbar I rightclick the workspace area and chose move. when the mouse passes the thunar window, the window get closed.
If the mouse stay on the bar it works without closing the window.

Is there any solution on this issue?

garrett18 · **Joined:** Wed Oct 15, 2008 12:32 pm **Posts:** 10

HER0_01 wrote:

litvinovandrew wrote:

When will be Zenwalk Gnome 6.2?

There won't be a Zenwalk Gnome 6.2 unless somebody picks up the project. You can install standard 6.2 and then install gnome through netpkg, along with any different applications that zen gnome may have had. If you uninstall xfce, it is nearly the same as if you installed gnome from the start

Hi, what are the requirements for maintain projects?
Currently i'm repo maintainer of scentlinux, i do some packages for Archlinux (AUR) and i have a PPA for Ubuntu...if you need help i can learn "how to package for zenwalk" ...

you can send me a mail, i'll be happy to help zenwalk-gnome

cramur · **Posted:** Fri Sep 11, 2009 6:43 pm

Fine. This is the third time in a row the system is unable to work as used to after update (why should I reinstall the whole system? I just wanted to upgrade it. Due to politics of removing old packages there is no way for me to rollback now)
Enough for me. That was a fine 2 and a half years, but now even X won't start...
Just have fun over there :) Looks like it's a Call of Cosmos for me to look for another distro.

Anyway, thanks all the contributors for the titanical job being made. If not the option of reinstall, I'm sure would stick to Zenwalk.

Ejis · **Posted:** Fri Sep 11, 2009 6:47 pm

Hi,

we had to change the X.org packages to Slackware's ones. That makes a lot of new packages to install.
In my opinion, the version number brought too much confusion, and made people thought it could be simply updated, which is wrong.
Anyway, have fun with your next distro.

RogerWilco · **Joined:** Thu Jun 28, 2007 7:41 am **Posts:** 95

cramur wrote:

Fine. This is the third time in a row the system is unable to work as used to after update (why should I reinstall the whole system? I just wanted to upgrade it. Due to politics of removing old packages there is no way for me to rollback now)
Enough for me. That was a fine 2 and a half years, but now even X won't start...

It's not straightforward to upgrade the new X. What I did was to stick in the 6.0 CD, cd to zenwalk/x and removepkg *.t?z then change the CD to the 6.2 cd to the same directory and installpkg *.t?z * and (here's a catch) installpkg ../l/fontconfig*.t?z (for some reason it's not under x anymore)

If you have an older intel chip (say 8xx) you need to change in xorg.conf "Driver" "i810" to "Driver" "intel" BUT the intel driver included is broken, so either use the vesa driver or search, d/l and install the xf86-intel-legacy driver and use "intel"

* of course you can prune the zillion drivers you don't need

rene · **Joined:** Tue Mar 10, 2009 8:36 pm **Posts:** 33

Note that DRI is broken on the intel-legacy driver as well (for 865G at least) so in fact, really might as well just use the vesa driver. It's a bit slower but hey, X.org on older Intel is simply broken beyond repair at the moment (and has been for some time).

hc.e · **Joined:** Tue Aug 01, 2006 9:38 pm **Posts:** 64

I think in the change the X.org packages should be mentioned in the HowTo.

http://wiki.zenwalk.org/index.php?title ... 6.0_to_6.2

Dexin · **Joined:** Tue Jan 06, 2009 11:40 am **Posts:** 30

rene wrote:

Note that DRI is broken on the intel-legacy driver as well (for 865G at least) so in fact, really might as well just use the vesa driver. It's a bit slower but hey, X.org on older Intel is simply broken beyond repair at the moment (and has been for some time).

funny, but from xexproto-7.1.1 there is no shmstr.h included, which is required for compiling intel-2.8.1 driver , but in 7.0.5 that file is still have place.
I personaly have no thoooughts about al of this :<

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