14 DAY TRIAL // The team developing SliTaz, an open source and minimalistic Linux distribution built from scratch, has announced that a new Release Candidate in the new 5.0 branch is now ready for testing and download.
The developers have been working for a few years already on this version of SliTaz. This is understandable, because it’s not exactly easy to build an operating system from scratch.
“We have done a huge amount of work fixing bugs from RC1 with about 500 commits in our Mercurial repositories. All the 4300 packages have been rebuilt to find and fix bugs and to ensure everything can be rebuilt from source by advanced users. We took a lot of time to improve users experience with our default and custom LXDE desktop. Polkit and udisks configuration has been fixed to correctly handle external devices and internal hard disk partitions.”
“The RC2 supports a new installation method. SliTaz can be installed into a single directory without partitioning any hard disk and this method works with all file systems including NTFS and FAT32,” reads the official announcement.
The system is already quite stable (not enough for adoption), features PCmanFM as the default file manager, and it’s based on the Linux kernel 3.2.53.
Check the official announcement for more details about this release. You can download SliTaz GNU/Linux 5.0 RC2 right now from Softpedia.
Remember that this is a development version and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended for testing purposes only.