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Zenwalk -- unsure what to do with it

I’ve been using Zenwalk GNU/Linux on my laptop for a couple months or so now. I switched away from Fedora due primarily to their kernels continuously breaking my wireless networking; also, the 64-bit thing (or at least Fedora’s implementation of it) wasn’t working very well or me with only 1G of memory. I was regularly running at much higher memory utilization levels than I wanted with Xfce, Emacs, Firefox, and a few other utilities running.

Zenwalk was originally based on Slackware and still retains many of those roots. As I cut my teeth on Slackware back in high school, the familiar simplicity is rather welcome. In general, I like Zenwalk, but there are a few things that are giving me pause.

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