SliTaz GNU/Linux

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SliTaz GNU/Linux


Developed by	Christophe Lincoln
Latest release	1.0 / 2008-03-22
OS	Linux
Genre	Live CD
License	Various
Website	http://slitaz.org/en/

SliTaz GNU/Linux is a community software project started in 2006 by Christophe Lincoln. It is a Linux distribution with a root filesystem taking up about 80 MB and an ISO image of around 25 MB. As of April 2008, it is one of the smallest available Linux distros around and features a lightweight desktop environment.[1] It has full support for several dialects of the French language, as well as English.

SliTaz boots from either a CD or a USB Flash Drive, into a JWM desktop running on top of Xvesa, and uses BusyBox for all of its main functions. It has a good range of desktop and rescue software and can be loaded entirely into RAM (as space permits) or be installed to a hard drive. [2] The official website states: "The goal of SliTaz is to have a GNU/Linux distro working in memory (RAM)."

1 History
2 Applications
3 New version
4 References
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] History

After two years of development, SliTaz 1.0 was released on 2008-03-22 and it is one of the smallest available Linux distros around. SliTaz shares many common goals with Damn Small Linux, but is about half the size and is based on the more recent Linux 2.6 kernel.

[edit] Applications

SliTaz comes with: Mozilla Firefox installed as the default internet browser, the Lighttpd web server, Alsa mixer, audio player and CD ripper/encoder, chat, mail and FTP clients, a Dropbear SSH client and server, SQLite database, and home-made graphical boxes to command line utilities. In all, 448 packages are available for installation in the packages repository.

[edit] New version

The new "Cooking" 20080518 SliTaz is the latest testing version of SliTaz. This new version includes Firefox 3 RC1, OpenBox, a new file manager, and several updates.