Debian is good, no not good its fantastic, but that's where the problem lies in . It's just too good and made my life too easy, one of the reasons why I despise Microsoft OSs so much.So for a change I decided to go out of the way and try out a brand new non-debian based Linux distro .Given my bad taste for any fedora based distro , I was left with the choice of going for either Arch or Gentoo, as both are considered fast.So i started doing a little bit of research on net to find which of the two was better to try out.Although I have used Gentoo previously , i never got the chance to use Arch.While googling for more info and through some sites like Distrowatch , I cam across a new distro called Zenwalk , a Slackware based distro but a lot lot lot faster than the original Slack.Found quite a few interesting articles on net regarding it.Here I would like to mention a few of them.
This is what Distrowatch had to say about Zenwalk:
Zenwalk Linux (formerly Minislack) is a Slackware-based GNU/Linux operating system with a goal of being slim and fast by using only one application per task and with focus on graphical desktop and multimedia usage. Zenwalk features the latest Linux technology along with a complete programming environment and libraries to provide an ideal platform for application programmers. Zenwalk's modular approach also provides a simple way to convert Zenwalk Linux into a finely-tuned modern server (e.g. LAMP, messaging, file sharing).
And this is what Zenwalk had to say about itself:
Zenwalk is a GNU/Linux operating system, designed to provide the following characteristics :
- Modern (latest stable software)
- Fast (optimized for performance capabilities)
- Rational (one mainstream application for each task)
- Complete (full development/desktop/multimedia environment)
- Evolutionary (simple network package management tool - netpkg)
Shall add more in coming time till then get zened :)
