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.