Distribution Release: Zenwalk Linux 7.0

Zenwalk 7.0 is available for immediate download !

Still desktop, Internet and multimedia oriented, Zenwalk 7.0 is a milestone in the evolution of the distribution. This release brings several major changes at user level and system level. At user level, the XFCE desktop environment has been updated to major version 4.8.1, coming with a new VFS, XFCE 4.8 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. Zenwalk 7.0 will come with XFCE 4.8.1 (stable version, many bugs have been fixed since 4.8.0).

We are pleased to announce that OpenOffice will be replaced by LibreOffice which appeared to be more reliable on Zenwalk during our testing process (stability is very important for an office software).

At system level Zenwalk 7.0 is our first release coming without HAL, which has been completely replaced by udev/GIO. The Zenwalk 7.0 kernel will be 2.6.37.4, with KMS support. KMS is disabled by default but can be enabled easily in the bootloader configuration.

As usual most packages have been updated to the latest stable version :
LibreOffice 3.3.1
XFCE 4.8.1
Icecat 3.6.15
Icedove 3.0.4
Kernel 2.6.37.4 with BFS scheduler and performance tweaks