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Zenwalk Linux 5.2 Beta Available Now

Ever tried zen computing?

By Marius Nestor, Linux Editor

23rd of May 2008, 06:46 GMT

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After 4 months of hard work, Zenwalk team is proud to announce the immediate availability of Zenwalk Linux 5.2 Beta: "The long awaited Zenwalk 5.2 is out in Beta. It's been
4 months since the last release, and it is time to brush off the packages"
- says the Zenwalk team in the release announcement. If you're wondering what's new in this version, let us tell you that it's packed with a revamped package manager, netpkg "new generation" v4, which has been fully rewritten in Perl-GTK, the unbeatable media player for Linux, MPlayer, has support for DVD menus, and the resume/suspend operations were greatly improved.

Moreover, Zenwalk 5.2 Beta has some new artwork, important updates (like Linux kernel 2.6.25.4 and Xfce 4.4.2) and security fixes. Also, a web-based Package Database and an easy to use User Repository are now available for all Zenwalk users.

Being powered by the popular Slackware Linux distribution, Zenwalk comes with useful applications for daily usage. Among this, we can notice:

■ XFCE Desktop Environment
■ Mozilla Firefox
■ Mozilla Thunderbird
■ Openoffice.org Office Suite
■ Abiword Word Processing
■ Gnumeric Spreadsheet
■ Tea Text Editor
■ Bluefish Html Editor
■ Leafpad Text Editor
■ Vim Advanced Text Editor
■ Alsa Sound Server
■ Gxine/Xine Media Player
■ Gnomebaker CD/DVD Burning Tool

Download the stable version of Zenwalk Linux 5.0 now from Softpedia.

Download the stable version of Zenwalk Linux 5.2 Beta now from Softpedia.

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