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New Release of ZenWalk 5.2

2008 June 09, Filled in : linux, 0 comments

Finally after 4 months of hard work and bugs fixing, the Zenwalk team announce the final version Zenwalk linux 5.2. Zenwalk linux 5.2 brings many revamped package manager, MPlayer, which has improved support for DVD menus, Brasero as the default CD/DVD burning utility and also the latest version of GIMP Editor.

Moreover, Zenwalk 5.2 comes packed with some new artwork, it is now powered by Linux kernel 2.6.25.4 and Xfce 4.4.2 and has resurrected the resume/suspend operations. Also, an ever-increasing web-based software repository is now available for all Zenwalk users: "Many faithful users asked us to provide an online source repository rather than sending source Dvds on-demand. So we have been working on a mechanism to allow the development team to instantly publish source tarballs for any new package we release. This source repository is now 100% ready for ISO packages, and the contributed packages (aka "extra") source repository is being populated actively."

Being powered by the popular Slackware Linux distribution, Zenwalk Linux 5.2 comes with useful applications for daily usage. Among these, we can notice:

  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Mozilla Thunderbird 
  • Pidgin Multi-protocol Instant Messenger (MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, AIM, IRC) 
  • Openoffice.org Office Suite 
  • Abiword Word Processing 
  • Gnumeric Spreadsheet
  • Tea Text Editor 
  • Gtkam Photo Viewer The GIMP 
  • Bluefish HTML Editor 
  • Leafpad Text Editor 
  • Vim Advanced Text Editor 
  • Alsa Sound Server 
  • Gxine/Xine Media Player 
  • Brasero CD/DVD Burning Tool

Linux Game Publishing Prepared a New GUI Installer

2008 February 27, Filled in : game, linux, 0 comments

I love linux, but everyone agree that linux is not for a gamer. You can count a very a good games in linux, and the result still not much. Of course you can have a wine software to play a windows game in linux, but let's face it, not all game is supported.

But Linux Game Publishing really add a new dimension in linux gaming world. They had a couple linux games and have a plan to port several other to linux.

Recently they announce they will have a  new GUI installer for their upcoming game titles. The Installer using GTK2 and bring some new features and functionality.  LGP's application will use the GTK2 toolkit, but in case it's not available on the target system, the installer will use GTK1 and ncurses. The older versions of the setup application did not have any analytical information displayed on the progress bars during the installation process, but things changed in the new version. Besides, it can now be used with larger-sized games, feature that didn't work correctly in the older editions. LGP's installer comes with support for using XDG menus.

LGP has published until now this following games:

  • Ballistics
  • Candy Cruncher
  • NingPo Mahjong
  • Soul Ride
  • Cold War