Introducing SliTaz Linux

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Introducing SliTaz Linux

April 22nd, 2008 by dyatmika

What is SliTaz? It is a new minimalistic Linux distribution, a 100% FREE operating system which doesn’t need a hard drive to run. It runs completely in memory and can be booted from a CD-ROM or an USB flash drive. Did we say how small it is? Incredible or not, SliTaz Linux provides a lot of applications, nice desktop effects and even a ready-to-use web server in no more than 24.8 MB ISO image! Moreover, at this size, SliTaz is extremely fast and light!

Let’s take a look at SliTaz’s features:
� Root filesystem taking about 80 Mb and ISO image less than 30 MB;
� Ready to use Web server powered by LightTPD with PHP and CGI support;
� Browse the Web with Mozilla Firefox or Retawq 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;
� Elegent desktop with JWM running on the top of Xvesa (X server);
� Home made graphical boxes to command line utilities;
� More than 440 packages easily installable from the mirror;
� Active and friendly community.

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The Live CD starts with a boot prompt in French, with a little
information about the default username and the password. From there, the CD will automatically boot in 3 seconds if you don’t press the Enter key and in about 1-2 minutes you will be asked to choose your desired language, keyboard layout and screen resolution. Immediately after you have chosen the desired resolution, a nice login screen will appear. Login with username hacker and password root. You will enter in the lightweight JWM (Joe’s Window Manager) window manager.

Applications inside SliTaz:

� Firefox (web browser)
� gFTP (FTP client)
� Transmission (BitTorrent client)
� LostIRC (IRC client)
� Retawq (web browser)
� ePDFView (PDF viewer)
� Wikiss (PHP Wiki)
� ISO Master (ISO image editor)
� Leafpad (text editor)
� Nano (console text editor)
� XTerm (terminal emulator)
� mtPaint (image editor)
� GPicView (image viewer)
� Gcolor2 (color selector)
� Alsaplayer (audio player)
� Asunder (CD ripper)
� mhWaveEdit (audio editor)
� LightTPD (web server)
� Geany (Integrated Development Environment)