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 Post subject: Zenwalk 7.0 BETA is ready for testing !
PostPosted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 1:44 am 
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Zenwalk 7.0 BETA is ready for testing !

Zenwalk 7.0 will be a milestone in the evolution of the distribution. Still desktop and multimedia oriented, this release brings several major changes at user level and system level. At user level, the XFCE desktop environment has been updated to the brand new 4.8.0 version, providing many improvements and new features. Coming with a new VFS, XFCE 4.8.0 allows CIFS and SFTP shares browsing through the file manager, making it mostly feature equivalent to Gnome while still a lot faster. The new panel has good support for transparency, and is packaged with many plugins out of the box.
At system level Zenwalk 7.0 BETA comes without HAL, which has been completely replaced by udev/GIO.

As usual most packages have been updated to the latest stable version :
    Openoffice 3.2.0
    XFCE 4.8.0
    Icecat 3.6.13
    Icedove 3.0.4
    Kernel 2.6.37 with BFS scheduler

Here you can find some informations about the new XFCE 4.8 Desktop : http://www.xfce.org/about/news/?post=1295136000

We hope you'll like the new artwork, and will appreciate the consistency of the desktop layout, as well as the performance of Zenwalk 7.0. Please report any bug you can find so that we can work on it to prepare the FINAL :)

Have fun !
JP

Downloads :
http://zen-repo.meticul.eu/i486/zenwalk ... 0BETA1.iso
http://chronos.iut-bm.univ-fcomte.fr/di ... 0BETA1.iso
ftp://viking.zenwalk.org/i486/zenwalk-7 ... 0BETA1.iso
http://mirrors.evolva.ro/zenwalk/i486/z ... 0BETA1.iso
ftp://mirrors.evolva.ro/zenwalk/i486/ze ... 0BETA1.iso
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 7:08 am 
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YAY, amazing news JP. Thanks to all of you behind the scenes working hard. Kudos 2 XFCE folks. You guys rock.

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Cheers.. first distro to use XFCE 4.8 out of the box!
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 2:02 am 
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I am trying to install to a scsi disk. Previous ver 5/6 zenwalk install CDs have worked by booting scsi boot option. The 7.0 beta install CD seems not to find the scsi disks in my system when booting with scsi. Is the aic7xxx module missing from the install kernel? Is there a work around? How do I get the install system to find my scsi disks?

Looking forward to testing the 7.0 zenwalk and xfce 4.8.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 2:19 am 
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Hello,

I am testing Zenwalk-7.0 BETA. Everything appears to be ok except hanging at bootsplash on almost every alternate boot. If I reset my system and then reboot it boots properly.

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 4:49 am 
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Hands down!

I have tried pretty much all the linux distros out there but I always come back to Zenwalk. Simple yet awesome!
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joeham wrote:
I am trying to install to a scsi disk. Previous ver 5/6 zenwalk install CDs have worked by booting scsi boot option. The 7.0 beta install CD seems not to find the scsi disks in my system when booting with scsi. Is the aic7xxx module missing from the install kernel? Is there a work around? How do I get the install system to find my scsi disks?

Looking forward to testing the 7.0 zenwalk and xfce 4.8.

Check with this command

Code:
modprobe -l | grep aic7

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rsamurti wrote:
Hello,

I am testing Zenwalk-7.0 BETA. Everything appears to be ok except hanging at bootsplash on almost every alternate boot. If I reset my system and then reboot it boots properly.

Anand

Try disabe the bootsplash and boot. Then you can see where exactly its halting.

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May we have an md5 sum? Thanks!

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May we have an md5 sum? Thanks!


Of course : all mirrors provide a md5 sum

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Everything appears to be ok except hanging at bootsplash on almost every alternate boot


Please test this package : http://download.zenwalk.org/people/jp/p ... 6-70.2.txz

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 7:50 am 
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z2501 wrote:
Hands down!

I have tried pretty much all the linux distros out there but I always come back to Zenwalk. Simple yet awesome!
-t

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I downloaded 7.0 Beta1 and burned it to a CD-RW, but after 1,5 lines of boot hang up...
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PLease install the new udev package and tell me :)

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 10:20 am 
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New build , should fix the problem :

http://download.zenwalk.org/people/jp/p ... 6-70.3.txz

Bip : once tested, please push to SNAPSHOT :)

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