With Web boot and MPlayer

Jul 18, 2008 07:19 GMT  ·  By

The SliTaz team is proud to announce the immediate availability of the SliTaz Cooking, a development edition of the SliTaz Linux, which includes many bug fixes and new features. So, if you're wondering what's new in this version, let us tell you that SliTaz has now the ability to boot from the Internet using the gPXE project, a network bootloader. It also includes a versatile multimedia player, MPlayer, Notecase (notes manager application) and built-in support for XFS filesystem into the Linux kernel.

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What is SliTaz? It is a new minimalist Linux distribution, a 100% FREE operating system that doesn't need a hard drive to run. It runs completely in memory and can be booted from a CD-ROM or an USB flash drive. Did we say how small it is? Incredible or not, SliTaz Linux provides a lot of applications, nice desktop effects and even a ready-to-use web server in no more than 28.6 MB ISO image! Moreover, at this size, SliTaz is extremely fast and light! Let's take a look at SliTaz's features:

■ Root filesystem taking about 80 Mb and ISO image less than 30 MB; ■ Ready to use Web server powered by LightTPD with PHP and CGI support; ■ Browse the Web with Mozilla Firefox or Retawq in text mode; ■ Sound support provided by Alsa mixer, audio player and CD ripper/encoder; ■ Chat, mail and FTP clients; ■ SSH client and server powered by Dropbear; ■ Database engine with SQLite; ■ Generate a LiveUSB device; ■ Tools to create, edit or burn CD or DVD images; ■ Elegent desktop with Openbox running on the top of Xvesa (X server); ■ Home made graphical boxes to command line utilities; ■ More than 440 packages easily installable from the mirror; ■ Active and friendly community.

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Applications inside SliTaz:

■ Firefox (web browser) ■ gFTP (FTP client) ■ LostIRC (IRC client) ■ Retawq (web browser) ■ ePDFView (PDF viewer) ■ Wikiss (PHP Wiki) ■ ISO Master (ISO image editor) ■ Leafpad (text editor) ■ Nano (console text editor) ■ XTerm (terminal emulator) ■ mtPaint (image editor) ■ GPicView (image viewer) ■ Gcolor2 (color selector) ■ Alsaplayer (audio player) ■ Asunder (CD ripper) ■ mhWaveEdit (audio editor) ■ LightTPD (web server) ■ Geany (Integrated Development Environment) ■ BitTorrent client

...and a lot of system utilities!

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Download SliTaz Linux Cooking right now from Softpedia.