About:
Slax is a modern, small, and fast Linux operating system with a modular approach and outstanding design. Despite its small size, which is below 200 megabytes, Slax provides a wide collection of pre-installed software for daily use, including a well organized graphical user interface and useful recovery tools for system administrators. The modular approach gives you the ability to include any other software in Slax easily, by downloading a module with the software, without having to install or configure it.

Release focus: Major feature enhancements

Changes:
This release added bdiff, dbdiff, xdos (a DOSEMU and FreeDOS suite), the Samba client and smbmount, nfsutils, rdist, rsync, nmap, BitchX, the joe, jove, and jed editors, the "most" filter, the Fluxbox window manager, raidtools, jfsutils, reiserfsprogs, xfsprogs, umsdos-progs, and zoneinfo. It is now possible to install your own packages in /usr/local and to copy the CD to hard disk. Netscape and some useless KDE themes were removed. Executables are now compressed with the upx packer.

Author:
Tomas [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.60/10.00 (9 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.slax.org/
Mirror site:
http://merlin.fit.vutbr.cz/mirrors/slax/SLAX-6.x/

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		X11 Applications :: KDE
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		POSIX :: Linux
[Topic]		System :: Operating System :: Linux Distributions :: CD-Based

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	6.0.2	03-Mar-2008	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
6.0.2	Minor bugfixes	03-Mar-2008 18:58
6.0.1	Minor bugfixes	29-Feb-2008 15:38
5.1.4	Minor feature enhancements	08-May-2006 05:21
5.1.0	Minor feature enhancements	05-Apr-2006 14:37
5.0.8	Minor bugfixes	24-Mar-2006 09:29
5.0.7b	Major feature enhancements	31-Jan-2006 07:35
5.0.6	Minor feature enhancements	19-Jul-2005 21:50
5.0.5	Major feature enhancements	17-Jun-2005 10:09
5.0.1	Major bugfixes	10-Apr-2005 07:44
5.0.0	Major feature enhancements	05-Apr-2005 14:01

 Comments

[»] This replaces knoppix for me
by Count Brass - Sep 4th 2005 19:37:21

This looks fantastic, and have placed this on my regularly spywared, virus infected computer illiterate in-laws network as a Windows replacement.

However, I would like to mod the iso in such a way as to make requisite changes to X, and set an autoboot to X.

Any thoughts?

Thanks for the hard work Tomas, I am your newest fan.

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[»] WO!
by no - May 26th 2004 15:23:52

SO! COOL!
my rating 10/10
tryed it, love it!
It is easy to use, and very convinient.
you are prompt advanced or normal booting

then It loads
ask you for login/password, which is provided
you write gui then BOOM
instant linux!

Incomvinient
Mandrake 9.2 scraps LG cd-rom
I now live in fear that slax would too :X

the author reassured me by saying, "not that I know"
I'm not so sure, somebody give me a better assurance
that it's only mandrake... please...

--
Have a nice day ---- mimithebrain

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