Slax

right Slax is a Linux Live CD . It does not need to be installed as it boots and runs from a CD drive. It is possible to run Slax on a computer without a hard disk. There is also an option to run Slax from RAM, freeing the drive for other uses, such as for a DVD or music CD. Slax is based on Slackware Linux, and uses KDE as it's desktop environment. Fluxbox and XFCE are desktop enviroments also availible under Slax, the latter has to be added to the ISO image by the user. The current version of Slax is v5.0.0 is around 190MB, released on April 4, 2005

Features

Slax contains the following software:
  1. Linux Kernel 2.6.11.6
  2. X.org 6.8.1
  3. UnionFS & SquashFS
  4. KDE 3.4
  5. MPlayer 1.0pre6a with KPlayer
  6. Rdesktop (rscp in KDE)
  7. Hotplug support
  8. Cdrtools
  9. Mutt email client
  10. Wget
A full list of software can be found at Slax software page

Author

Slax, despite it being open source was made by one man; Tomas Matejicek, using the Linux Live scripts and Slackware as a base.

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