SliTaz GNU/Linux is a mini distribution and live CD designed to run speedily on hardware with 256 MB of RAM. SliTaz uses BusyBox, a recent Linux kernel and GNU software. It boots with Syslinux and provides more than 200 Linux commands, the lighttpd web server, SQLite database, rescue tools, IRC client, SSH client and server powered by Dropbear, X window system, JWM (Joe’s Window Manager), gFTP, Geany IDE, Mozilla Firefox, AlsaPlayer, GParted, a sound file editor and more. The SliTaz ISO image fits on a less than 30 MB media and takes just 80 MB of hard disk space.1
The latest version of SliTaz was released yesterday, a lot of work has been done since last cooking ISO released in november: more than 2200 changes have been commited to the wok, and several hundreds more to home-built tools.
Some new features of this release :
- Boot scripts rewritten and faster (super-fast booting)
- All home-made boxes improved (tazctrlbox, tazhw, wifibox, burnbox, mountbox, netbox, serverbox, installer)
- Switch to Xorg from Xvesa
- Switch to Midori as the default web browser
- Better hardware support – wifi cards, webcams, 3G-modems, printers, scanners
- Better themes and desktop integration
- Faster virtualization with lguest
- SliTaz pro: OpenERP, LAMP, GLPI and more
- Easier to customize LiveCD and LiveUSB (tazlitobox and tazusbbox)
- Tazpkg supports new features including the conversion of deb/rpm/arch/slackware/ipk packages to Slitaz native format
- Packages are now automatically built by a build bot (Tazbb)
- More contributors and stronger community
- 900 packages added to the database and many updates
- More than 2800 commits by contributors
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Installation screenshots of this new release of SliTaz
Useful Links: 1Distrowatch, slitaz.org
