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Zenwalk Linux 5.2 now ready for download

After more than four months of hard work the team Zenwalk is proud to announce the availability of the final version of its power Slackware distributions, Zenwalk Linux 5,2: "The long expected Zenwalk 5,2 is now available. In the 4 months since the last release of a number of improvements have been made. Zenwalk of GNU / Linux OS, to its users both the latest software stable, well-polished Desktop and increasing software store. "inclusion of over 500 changes (bug fixes, software updates and many other improvements), Zenwalk 5,2 carry your revamped and revamped package manager, Netpkg of the (new generation) version 4, which has been completely rewritten in Perl-GTK; reasonable media player for Linux, MPlayer, which has improved maintenance for DVD menus; Brasero, as the default, CD / DVD burning utility and the latest version of GIMP editor of images, 2.4.6!

Moreover, Zenwalk 5,2 comes packaged with some new works of art, is now powered by Linux kernel 2.6.25.4 and Xfce 4.4.2 and resurrected in a summary / stop operations. Also, increasingly Web-based software store is now available for all users Zenwalk: "Many believers customers ask us to be a source of stock, rather than sending the source DVD discs on demand. So they have worked in mechanism to allow the development team to publish the source tarballs for each new package we release. This source of storage is now 100% ready for ISO packages, and contributed packages (aka "extra") is a source of stock active population. "

Having powered by the popular Linux distribution Slackware, Zenwalk Linux 5,2 comes with useful applications for everyday use. Among them, 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

If you wanto to download Zenwalk Linux 5,2 you can download it now from Softpedia.

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