It's smaller than Ubuntu, but it's fully functional. It is amazingly tiny for its complete desktop features. SLAX is a very tiny, just works and modern computer operating system that enables older computers. Further information available at Customization. Today, you can experiment with SLAX instead as Remastersys was not available anymore. In the past, such remastering was popular by tools like Remastersys. Yes, SLAX supports remastering! This means making a new operating system's bootable ISO image with installed software and custom configuration you chose. Further information available at User Guide. Unlike a Live USB, on SLAX installed applications and saved documents won't be gone away if you power off the computer. Rest assured, SLAX running from a USB stick automatically saves all your files right in your USB storage. SLAX runs on RAM, "so how about my saved files?", you asked. This means, because SLAX is now based on Debian, then accordingly 11.2 is based on Bullseye while 9.x is based on Stretch. Version 11.2 uses Debian 11.2's repository, version 9.x uses Debian 9.x's, and so on. How about the repository? SLAX makes use of Debian's and does not have its own. To make SLAX bootable, learn more in this tutorial. How about user's data? The data saved in the drive under /slax/changes/ directory. This means one can just unpack the ISO file and copy the unpacked /slax/ directory into a FAT32 or an EXT4 flash drive then SLAX OS will run from that drive on any computer. However, the difference comes from its system's technical architecture that allows it to, unlike Ubuntu, become a portable operating system. GCC, Python, Java, Node.js and other programming tools.Gimp, Inkscape, Blender 3D, Kdenlive and other multimedia tools.KDE, GNOME and other desktop environments.That goes without saying, Slax offers us aforementioned software as well as: This is the ultimate difference to Slitaz, another lightweight distro ( read our review here), which is independent and has fairly limited number of packages (no LibreOffice nor Firefox). That's why the number of Slax's applications reached more than 10000. SLAX is now based on Debian, that's what it said on its front page. Chromium web browser (up to SLAX 9, since 11 it's an install script).However, SLAX by default is armed with very few applications without ones you do not need: This is the ultimate difference to Ubuntu, Windows and MacOS which is impossible today to reach such low resource utilization. More to say, Slax can run on i386 aside from amd64 architecture, making it suitable for people who run old PCs and laptops. When running Chromium to open a website, or LibreOffice Writer to write document, it takes at best 490MB RAM under 6% CPU! That's excellent. (Even smaller, about 100MB and 2% with the older version 9.x with 32-bit architecture). It takes about 200MB of RAM and under 5% CPU when idle and first run. It is impressive to find an operating system these days, that enables computing as much as possible with requirements as low as possible like SLAX. The version numbering of Slax comes from Debian's.Īsk yourself, is there a desktop operating system able to run on half a GB memory? You'll answer it does not exist, or almost so. SLAX CD and USB are purchasable at the official store and every purchase will help fund SLAX development. It's licensed under GNU GPL, a copyright license that allows all users to share and change software codes. Yes, SLAX is both free as in freedom and gratis as in price. Based on and compatible with Debian GNU/Linux.UEFI support starting from version 11.2.Fluxbox desktop by default, KDE and GNOME available on the repo.Free software, the OS is licensed under GNU GPL.Large number of software available (10000+).Supports both 32-bit and 64-bit computers.It is developed as a hobby project for more than ten years by one person, Tomas Matejicek, and independently funded by donation via Patreon and its computer shop. It is based on Debian GNU/Linux and prior to version 9, Slackware. SLAX is a portable, lightweight computer operating system from Czech Republic. Subscribe to UbuntuBuzz Telegram Channel to get article updates.
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