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Revision as of 14:42, 23 April 2011
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| Developer | The SliTaz GNU/Linux Association; Slitaz.org / Christophe Lincoln |
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| OS family | Unix-like |
| Working state | Current |
| Source model | Open source |
| Initial release | 22 March 2008 [1] |
| Latest release | 3.0 / March 28, 2010 [2] |
| Latest preview | cooking / March 29, 2011 |
| Package manager | Tazpkg |
| Platforms | x86 |
| Kernel type | Monolithic (Linux) |
| Default user interface | LXDE |
| License | GNU GPL and various others |
| Official website | slitaz.org |
SliTaz GNU/Linux is a community-based software project started in 2006 by Christophe Lincoln. It is a Linux distribution with a root filesystem that takes up approximately 100 MB of disk space, and its ISO image installation media is around 30 MB. [3][4][5] This makes it suitable for use on older hardware, or as a backup Linux LiveCD environment.[6] SliTaz, which stands for Simple Light Incredible Temporary Autonomous Zone[7], boots from either a CD or a USB key, into an Openbox desktop, and uses BusyBox for many of its core functions. It has a wide range of desktop and rescue software available and can be loaded entirely into RAM, or installed to a hard drive.[8]
History
After 1 year of community development, SliTaz 3.0 was released on March 28, 2010. SliTaz shares many common goals with Damn Small Linux, but is smaller (30 MB ISO) and keeps its Linux kernel up to date (kernel 2.6.30.6 as of March 28, 2010).
System requirements
SliTaz GNU/Linux supports all machines based on the i486 or x86 Intel compatible processors. The "core" LiveCD environment requires 192 MB of RAM to run efficiently. Additionally, there is a reduced functionality graphical installer LiveCD environment titled "loram-slitaz" which requires 80 MB to run efficiently. Finally, there is the "loram-slitaz-cdrom" flavor, which is a simple text-based installer, and it requires 16 MB. Regardless of installation method, however, SliTaz requires at least 16 MB of RAM to run efficiently.[9]
The low system requirements make SliTaz particularly suited to Netbook computers. As such, SliTaz includes support for a wide range of Netbooks.[9]
Applications
- ALSA mixer, audio player
- Asunder CD ripper / encoder
- Chat, mail and FTP clients
- CD or DVD tools for engraving, editing, etc.
- Elegant desktop (Openbox)
- Midori Web browser
- Database engine (SQLite)
- SSH client and server (Dropbear)
- More than 2300 packages
Features
SliTaz boots from:
- A Live USB using tazusb or with UNetbootin
- A Live CD (cooking or stable 3.0)
- An internal hard drive
- A virtual device (e.g. VMware)
- A floppy boot disk
- A LAN using Preboot Execution Environment and the internet using gPXE
System Tools
SliTaz has its own original tools:
- TazPkg - The SliTaz lightweight package manager
- TazLiTo - Allows for creation of a custom SliTaz LiveCD distribution
- TazUSB - Allows for creation of a custom SliTaz USB distribution
- TazWok - Creates custom packages for use with TazPkg
Release history
| Version | Release date | Stability |
|---|---|---|
| 1.0 | 23 March 2008 | Stable version |
| 2.0 | 16 April 2009 | Stable version |
| 3.0 | 28 March 2010 | Current stable version |
| 29 March 2011 | Current cooking version |
Flavors
Apart from the LiveCD, other versions include:
- xvesa - A fully-featured desktop environment using the tiny Xvesa graphical server
- justX - A system using only the minimum X requirements to boot
- loram - A system that boots with only 80 MB RAM
- loram-cdrom - A system that boots with only 16 MB RAM (and a little swap)
- base - The core system (8 MB)
- 3in1 - Flavor containing the base, justx and core ISOs
- Tiny SliTaz[10] - flavors based on Linux 2.6, busybox and uClibc running in memory (hard drive optional, ext3 supported). It provides a PXE proxy[11][12], a FTP server, a NTP server, and a Printer network gateway with web administration
Gallery
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Stable 1.0 -
Stable 2.0 -
Stable 3.0 -
Cooking
See also
- Comparison of Linux Live Distros
- Lightweight Linux distribution
- List of Linux distributions that run from RAM
References
- ^ slitaz.org SliTaz GNU/Linux is a free, open source community project.
- ^ Slitaz.org Welcome to SliTaz 3.0! Small, fast, easy to use and customize, the new SliTaz stable version is now out after one year of development.
- ^ Distrowatch.com "GNU/Linux 1.0 is not just another small desktop distro; it is, in fact, the smallest by some margin."
- ^ Freesoftwaremagazine.com "Size isn’t everything. Oh yes it is."
- ^ Linux.com The SliTaz developers have redefined what a micro GNU/Linux distribution can and should be
- ^ Linux-magazine.com "Similar to Puppy Linux, SliTaz loads entirely to RAM, so it runs blazingly fast even on older hardware."
- ^ Slitaz.org/de "Die 'Simple Light Incredible Temporary Autonomous Zone' eben!"
- ^ Junauza.com "SliTaz can be loaded as a LiveCD which I did, or through a bootable USB media."
- ^ a b Slitaz.org SliTaz 3.0 release notes.
- ^ tiny.slitaz.org SliTaz on a single floppy running in 8 MB RAM
- ^ doc.slitaz.org Slitaz PXE guide
- ^ boot.slitaz.org SliTaz boot service
