Zen Linux 1.0 Released

jbltgz writes "Zen Linux 1.0 was just released today. Zen Linux is a bootable LiveCD distribution. More than that it is a 100% compatible Debian installer. It boasts easy remastering for creating your own personalized versions. Most configuration is done automatically upon boot and requires no user interaction, things 'just work.' Zen Linux currently comes in three flavors Core, Gnome, and KDE. Zen Linux is built on the latest Debian unstable repositories and is 100% Debian compatible. You can expect frequent up to date maintenence releases for all supported flavors."

Comments

Oh boy

[Reducer2001]

things "'ust work.'

The jokes are just writing themselves today.

Re:ust work!

[Leroy_Brown242]

It's just a bandwidth conservation thing. They drop letters to save a bit here and ther.

Hey, it adds up. :)

I don't get it

[reynaert]

It seems every other day a new live-cd is announced, and I don't get it. What's so interesting about them?

I can see a few uses: it's nice to check out a distribution before installing it, to check if your hardware is supported, as a technology demo or to fix some borked system. So it makes sense there would exist a few different ones for each task. But it doesn't seem to be things you'd use regularly. So why are there so damn many?

Re:I don't get it

[torpor]

It seems every other day a new live-cd is announced, and I don't get it. What's so interesting about them?

In terms of 'what it should mean to us geeks', I think that it means you can now treat your average PC like an average Playstation or XBox, same level of ease-of-use, same degree of utter simplicity: put it in, turn it on, it works, predictably, the same way every time.. only with all the stuff you really, really need to get work done, on one CD, leaving disks and removable media/personal storage devices in the consumer realm where they belong ..

I believe that the Live-CD'athons we're seeing these days are more a reflection of how easy it is to roll your own linux box, and of how many people are consequently coming to understand that, and jump on the band-wagon. Never under-estimate the 'oh, look what I can do' factor of Linux, either .. its pretty much just a dog and pony show. Anyone can make their own Live-CD, truth be known, or distro too ..

And it seems, the days of the crufty OS are over. A user-made/configured LiveCD is a god-send for anyone wanting to use their computer to get work done, and not have to maintain the tyrrany of a disk-based OS/App-base install.

if Microsoft don't start giving folks easy ways to move C:\WINDOWS\ off to a bootable CD, and start playing in this particular arena of 'user-built OS for the job they intend', they're going to miss an interesting technological development. Maybe there is already a way to take a user-created system+apps install in Windows, and put it on a CD, I don't know .. haven't used Microsoft products in years ... but I can say fairly comfortably that Linux Live-CD's are a reliable way to get a very stable system running, tailored to your computing environment.

It seems that the 'Read Only OS Image Days of Stability' are upon us, fairly and squarely .. roll on '-ro' flag, ho ho ..

Zen Linux Rocks

[jbltgz]

Zen Linux HD install is the quickest way to get a fully functional Debian system up and running I've found...

Re:Looks cool...

[agraupe]

Hey, I'm a gentoo user. I, and most other linux users, could use it with absolutely no problem. People who are coming from Windows are often frightened by the terminal. We should let them use a simple GUI. It could be programmed in less than a day with GLADE/GTK+, and would use system() to execute the proper command. The question should be, why don't we?, not why should we?

Re:*ahem*

[jbltgz]

my bad!

Joy

[Linux_ho]

live CD distros
like all the stars in the sky
beauty in numbers

Re:The servers will die

[X0563511]

Torrents are now up at his download page. Enjoy.

Saving bits?

[some guy I know]

They drop letters to save a bit here and ther.

Don't you mean "save a byte here and ther."?