ZenWalk and the art of not booting
I really wanted to install ZenWalk 4.6.1, but it was not to be. Add it to the list of distros that won't boot on my test machine, the VIA C3 1 GHz thin client. Funny, because Slackware boots (with the huge.s kernel) and Vector also boots. So I shrunk my Slackware partition just enough to squeeze Vector Linux 5.8 Standard on there again.
One thing I can say about Vector, I like its install. Everything is very clear, the configuration was flawless, and I had a working partition pretty quick. Since I already had Xubuntu/ubuntu and Slackware booting from GRUB, naturally I didn't want to change to LILO for my bootloader, so I skipped that part of the Vector install, did a bit of Googling and found out how to get the new distro onto menu.lst. It wasn't easy to find -- and I didn't figure it out from the Vector site. Instead, it was a forum for Arch Linux that provided me with the info I needed. I went into Vector for a bit. I like it. It looks nice, there's a good mix of software, but again, I didn't detect any speed improvements over either Slackware or Xubuntu. I don't exactly have a lot of room to play with, having three distros on a 14.4 GB hard drive.
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