Zenwalk is a linux distribution based on slackware and the whole project started with the name “minislack”. That’s when I joined the small team of two guys to develop and maintain the distribution which was later renamed to Zenwalk Linux. My motivation was to develop a lighter version of slackware linux which, in case of minislack, was up to my mind…minislack at first wasn’t much more than a slackware without most of the packages…
When the name of minislack changed to zenwalk I also gave up my “minislack.de” website but replaced it with another infopage. I don’t have a copy of that anymore but it’s not relevant either.
My first bigger task was to build a stripped down version of kde and I quite succeeded and used it myself but later on I also packaged several other packages for the public.
At some point we needed a way to tell the world who we are and the existing website hosted on free.fr wasn’t suitable anymore because it looked more or less like a personal homepage so the founder asked me if I can build a more modern and usable website where users can interact…
The result was good enough for the current situation and fulfilled anything we needed. Later on we also needed a forum for the user support, so I set it up and managed it.In the end we had a very busy but mostly friendly forum.
Our next problem was the hosting of the iso file for zenwalk. The projects popularity began to grow so I decided on my own to host everything on a server which was offered for free from Webcontrol. The server was an intel p3 with 700mhz, 512 mb ram and a normal 40GB harddrive from IBM (IBM “Deathstar” in fact). I started to serve the iso files with apache 2.x and when the founder published the news about a new version of minislack or zenwalk, the server could in fact serve the massive amounts of downloads but as I was in testing mood I tried out a relative “new” httpd on the market which was “lighttpd” and I really could lower the cpu load.
After one year the servers harddrive died, everyone was angry about me and I wasn’t slack enough to cope with it, so in the end we all hated each other and split up
. I still don’t regret it because the founder seems to be a different about human relationships. But I have my faults, too…I am quite sure of that.
When the name of minislack changed to zenwalk I also gave up my “minislack.de” website but replaced it with another infopage. I don’t have a copy of that anymore but it’s not relevant either.
My first bigger task was to build a stripped down version of kde and I quite succeeded and used it myself but later on I also packaged several other packages for the public.
At some point we needed a way to tell the world who we are and the existing website hosted on free.fr wasn’t suitable anymore because it looked more or less like a personal homepage so the founder asked me if I can build a more modern and usable website where users can interact…
The result was good enough for the current situation and fulfilled anything we needed. Later on we also needed a forum for the user support, so I set it up and managed it.In the end we had a very busy but mostly friendly forum.
Our next problem was the hosting of the iso file for zenwalk. The projects popularity began to grow so I decided on my own to host everything on a server which was offered for free from Webcontrol. The server was an intel p3 with 700mhz, 512 mb ram and a normal 40GB harddrive from IBM (IBM “Deathstar” in fact). I started to serve the iso files with apache 2.x and when the founder published the news about a new version of minislack or zenwalk, the server could in fact serve the massive amounts of downloads but as I was in testing mood I tried out a relative “new” httpd on the market which was “lighttpd” and I really could lower the cpu load.
After one year the servers harddrive died, everyone was angry about me and I wasn’t slack enough to cope with it, so in the end we all hated each other and split up
. I still don’t regret it because the founder seems to be a different about human relationships. But I have my faults, too…I am quite sure of that.
Zenwalk Linux
Copyright (C) Andreas Schipplock
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Support for Zenwalk Linux
The easiest and most transparent way to get support is to use the mailing list provided by google. Just subscribe and mail your question or problem. Me or another nice guy or girl then is going to help you as much as possible. Just keep in mind that the primary language used there is english.