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Introducing SliTaz Linux

A minimalistic distro for all ages!

By Marius Nestor, Linux Editor

8th of April 2008, 08:09 GMT

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What is SliTaz? It is a new minimalistic Linux distribution, a 100% FREE operating system which 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 24.8 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 JWM 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.

The Live CD starts with a boot prompt in French, with a little

information about the default username and the password. From there, the CD will automatically boot in 3 seconds if you don't press the Enter key and in about 1-2 minutes you will be asked to choose your desired language, keyboard layout and screen resolution. Immediately after you have chosen the desired resolution, a nice login screen will appear. Login with username hacker and password root. You will enter in the lightweight JWM (Joe's Window Manager) window manager.

Applications inside SliTaz:

￭ Firefox (web browser)
￭ gFTP (FTP client)
￭ Transmission (BitTorrent 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)

...and a lot of system utilities!

Download SliTaz Linux right now from Softpedia.

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Comment #1 by: dave on 09 Apr 2008, 17:23 GMT	reply to this comment
I tried SliTaz using VirtualBox on my Kbuntu Dell Laptop. The new distribution is simply amazing. My only issue is that it uses a alternaive to ssh which apprently does not allow port frowarding, and there's no socks support. I like to use ssh portforwarding and then use socks for anonymous web surfing at work... still SiTaz is freaking awesome

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