SliTaz
SliTaz GNU/Linux LiveCD operating system.
What is SliTaz?
SliTaz is a free operating system, working completely in RAM and booting from removable media such as a CD-ROM or USB key. SliTaz is distributed as a LiveCD, and weighs less than 40MB. The system is quick and responsive, clean and robust. SliTaz is simple and intuitive, providing a lightweight, elegant desktop, detailed documentation and easy to use configuration tools.
Root filesystem taking up about 100 MB and ISO image of less than 40 MB. Ready to use Web/FTP server powered by Busybox with CGI support. Browse the Web with Midori, Firefox or Lynx in text mode. Sound support provided by Alsa mixer, audio player and CD ripper/encoder. Chat, mail and FTP clients. SSH client and server powered by Dropbear. Database engine with SQLite. Generate a LiveUSB device. Tools to create, edit or burn CD or DVD images. Elegant desktop with Openbox running on the top of Xorg/Xvesa (X server). Homemade graphical boxes to command line utilities. 4967 packages easily installable from the mirror. Active and friendly community.
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Comments and Reviews
Said about SliTaz as an alternative
It's an excelent alternative if you have a computer with low specs, it can run with 250 MB of RAM, 5 GB of ROM. It's a very small ISO and small in system usage. It's a good alternative for Lubuntu (Ubuntu with LXDE/LXQT).
Slitaz is incredibly fast, even on hardware from 2004. It also has a decent software library, so you can set it up for casual internet browsing and document editing without a hassle.
Although not quite as up to date, SliTaz is a very good, very fast, and genuinely lightweight OS.
Tags
- Linux Distro
- Operating System
- live-cd
- gnu-linux
SliTaz is very slow in updating even the most important packages. Not good for my usage. Might be good for you...