SliTaz GNU/Linux

infobox software
name = SliTaz GNU/Linux



developer = Christophe Lincoln
latest_release_version = 1.0
latest_release_date = 2008-03-22
operating_system = Linux
genre = Live CD
license = Various
website = http://slitaz.org/en/

SliTaz GNU/Linux is a community software project started in 2006 by Christophe Lincoln. It is a Linux distribution with a root filesystem taking up about 80 MB and an ISO image of around 25 MB. As of April 2008, it is one of the smallest desktop Linux distributions available. [http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20080331#feature]

SliTaz 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 (as space permits) or be installed to a hard drive. [http://www.junauza.com/2008/03/slitaz-gnulinux-smallest-desktop-distro.html] The official website states: "The goal of SliTaz is to have a GNU/Linux distro working fully in memory (RAM)."

History

After two years of development, SliTaz 1.0 was released on 2008-03-22. SliTaz shares many common goals with Damn Small Linux, but is smaller and based on the more recent Linux 2.6 kernel.

Applications

SliTaz comes with: Mozilla Firefox installed as the default web browser, the Lighttpd web server, an audio player and CD ripper/encoder, chat, mail and FTP clients, a Dropbear SSH client and server, SQLite database, and home-made graphical boxes to command line utilities. In all, 448 packages are available for installation in the packages repository.

References

* cite news
last=Bodnar
first=Ladislav
url=http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20080331#feature
title=First look at SliTaz GNU/Linux 1.0, the smallest desktop distro on earth
publisher=Distrowatch
date=2008-03-31
accessdate=2008-03-31

* cite news
last=Auza
first=Jun
url=http://www.junauza.com/2008/03/slitaz-gnulinux-smallest-desktop-distro.html
title=SliTaz GNU/Linux, the Smallest “Desktop” Distro Ever Created
publisher=Tech Source From Bohol
date=2008-03-28
accessdate=2008-03-28

See also

*Comparison of Linux Live Distros
*Mini Linux

External links

* [http://www.slitaz.org/en/ SliTaz GNU/Linux official website]