Linuxseekers

Application-wise, the apps that were bundled with Zenw4.2 were also avai-

lable on Zenwalk 4.4.1.  I didn't notice any extra new apps in Zenwalk 4.1.1.

For those who hasn't tried Zenwalk 4.4.1, the mplayer that come with Zen-

walk 4.4.1 could play google videos, avi video, wmv video, &  mpeg video

out-of-the-box.  Cool !  However, you need to play quicktime video using

firefox's mplayer plugin. Audacious played mp3 songs out-of-the-box. I could

also play my original dvd movie with mplayer.

Other than those multimedia applications, Firefox, gaim, gftp, thunderbird,

abiword, gnumeric, thunar file manager, etc are also available. Like its pre-

decessor, Zenwalk 4.4.1 lacks a flash-player.  Not a big deal, as you can just

download the flashplayer 9 tar ball from the Macromedia's website or install

it from the Zenwalk's official repositories.

These days the usbkeys are so cheap ! As a result, many people are carrying

it everywhere. When i was young, i used alot of the 5.xx inch floppy disk.

I noted that it took 2 mouse clicks to access my automounted usbkey's cont-

ent, That is not friendly.  Again, one may learn from Nokia. Another import-

ant usb device that deserve mentioning here is my  HP officejet 4355 that

worked out-of-the-box. Zenwalk 4.4.1 recognized all the resolution of my

lcd and also crt monitors ! No sound problems too.