Slax is a modern, small and fast Linux operating system with a modular approach and outstanding design. Despite its small size, Slax provides a wide collection of pre-installed software for daily use, including a well organized graphical user interface and useful recovery tools for system administrators.

The modular approach gives you the ability to include any other software in Slax easily. If you're missing your favourite text editor, networking tool or game, simply download a module with the software and copy it to Slax, no need to install, no need to configure.

If you are a beginner or you're just too busy to make it yourself, follow a few steps to build your own customized operating system by using web-based interface here.

Run from CD, USB Flash Key, MP3 Player, Camera or even from a Hard Drive.

More Info & Downloas: SLAX

Slax 6 is out
Feb 12, 2008

So, what’s new?
First, Slax is officially released in two forms, ISO and TAR. As you surely know, the iso format (labeled as “Slax for CD”) is to be burnt to a CD (preferably a miniCD medium). But nowadays, CDs are pretty obsolete, so the TAR format (labeled as “Slax for USB”) is for all the other people who need to run Slax directly from USB media or from a disk. Simply unzip (extract) the tar archive directly to your device (to it’s root directory, it will create ‘boot’ and ’slax’ subdirectories). That’s almost all; you only need to make it bootable. For that purpose, navigate to the ‘boot’ directory and find bootinst.sh (if you are in Linux) or bootinst.bat (if you are in Windows). Run it. Linux users will need to use root account for that. The script will setup the device to be bootable.

If you are using “Slax for USB”, you will notice that all the changes you made are PERMANENT. Yes, even if you’re running Slax from a VFAT filesystem (thanks to posixovl). But a native Linux filesystem is always prefered, of course. In that case, you won’t be able to use bootinst.sh/bat, you’ll have to try liloinst.sh

TODO list: Here are some key points:
1. write a lot of documentation
2. publish some modules using the new SLIK technology
3. make the forum work, because I’d like to hear your feedback
4. all the other things …

http://blog.slax.org/

Slax 6.0.1
http://www.slax.org/get_slax.php

February 28th, 2008
"As soon as the primary mirror copies data from FTP, I’ll release Slax 6.0.1 (so it may be already available if you’re reading this few hours after this post was published). Changes are the following:"

1. bugfix: Module Manager will display correct info about slik’ed modules
2. bugfix: activate refused to insert a module which was activater last time (before reboot) because of some empty mountpoints left. This is now fixed
3. bugfix: /etc/slax-version now shows correct version number
4. bugfix: trash bin was not empty
5. bugfix: swap partitions were not auto activated due to a bug in linux live scripts
6. bugfix: raise sound volume for ‘front’, ‘center’ and ’side’ channels too
7. kdeglobals set to force konqueror to follow slik:// addresses without asking
8. For a popular demand for at least a stripped version of vi in Slax, symlinked vi from busybox.
9. Slax will not have vi as default, but the ‘vi’ command will call the busybox’s vi.
10. workaround: because Flash plugin with konqueror hangs even after recompiling KDE 3.5.9, disabled flash plugins in konqueror. I have no idea how to fix that.
11. added madwifi wireless drivers version 0.9.4
12. added memtest 2.1
13. make posixovl less sceptic (use kernel cache and set relookup timeouts to 300 seconds) in order to get 2x better performace
14. delete some unneeded c++ files in the devel module to save few megabytes (actually 5)

"Also note that the Slax logo at DistroWatch is outdated. Please don’t write to me about it, I know it. I can’t change that. Slax’s logo has been modified five times in the past few years, and people@distrowatch have better things to do then updating the icon once per year. Justitia suum cuique distribuit …"

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