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SliTaz GNU/Linux

Company / developer	Christophe Lincoln
OS family	Linux
Working state	Current
Source model	Open source
Latest stable release	4.0 / April 10, 2012 (2012-04-10)
Marketing target	Live CD
Package manager	Tazpkg
Kernel type	Monolithic kernel
License	Free software licenses (mainly GNU GPL)

SliTaz GNU/Linux is a software project started by Christophe Lincoln in 2006. It is one of the smallest desktop Linux distributions available [1] a - a root filesystem takes up about 80 MB and an ISO image of around 25 MB. It boots from either a CD or a USB flash drive, into a JWM (now LXDE in cooking version) desktop running on top of Xvesa, and uses BusyBox for all of its main functions. It has a good range of desktop and rescue software and can be loaded entirely into RAM or be installed to a hard drive.[2]

History

After two years of development, SliTaz 1.0 was released on 22nd of March 2008. SliTaz shares many common goals with Damn Small Linux, but is smaller and based on the more recent Linux 2.6 kernel.

Applications

• Web server LightTPD (CGI and PHP support)
• Mozilla Firefox
• Alsa mixer, audio player and CD ripper / encoder
• Chat, mail and FTP clients
• SSH client and server (Dropbear)
• Database engine (SQLite)
• CD or DVD tools for engraving, editing, etc.
• Elegant desktop (JWM)
• More than 450 packages

Features

SliTaz boots from:

• A Live USB using tazusb or with UNetbootin
• A Live CD (cooking or stable 1.0)
• An internal hard drive
• A virtualbox or vmware device
• A floppy boot disk
• A LAN using Preboot Execution Environment and the internet using gPXE

Issues

Gallery

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  Stable 1.0

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  Cooking

Images for kids

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  SliTaz 2.0 stable desktop.

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  SliTaz 3.0 stable desktop.

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  SliTaz 4.0 stable desktop.

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  SliTaz 5.0 preview desktop.

See also

In Spanish: SliTaz GNU/Linux para niños