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[quote name="starscream" post="159135" timestamp="1315509292"] Damn small linux being popular portable distro i hardly cared about anything small or anywhere near it. But i found slitaz on monday and i must say that i'm impressed. Slitaz is so far the smallest distro for me now. It is just 30MB ISO file. You can burn it on CD or use it on vmware or the virtualbox. That way you can easily test the system. There are many good things about this distro. First thing is that it is simple and frugal install with bare minimum applications inside the distro. You will not find much unnecessary things inside the distro. It also comes up with it's own GUI. I have not yet found what it is as there seems to be its own theme and i can't figure out the way around it for now. But i am planning to add other window managers and with package manager i can found out the installed stuff. I was tiold that i should be installing cooking version of the slitaz which was 2.0. But i thought 3.0 which is stable is worth installing as it was new and stable. and it is infact stable none of the bugs or boot issues so far in virtual box. I'm also going to test it under vmware player to see if it works for me. if it is then i guess it's better for suggesting others. By the way there are some thing that i would like to add about this new small linux distro. One important thing is that it is lacking a lot in tutorial and other documentation. there is one official page for that but not much of screenshots or the information that you usually see with installation just like in ubuntu. I don't know if linux users are overly confident and hostile towards newbies and expect hash learning curve. But i hope they add documentation if possible because i was googling and bining for the stuff in case of this distro. Also there are no videos and community activity. I don't even understand my way out of their forums. I should take some time to browse the site i guess. But it was kinda confusing for me to check the site and it's section for the docs and some other stuff. Its weird design for the linux distro in my opinion. That aside, there seems to be active development from them and updates of fixes are also regular which is good thing considering this distro is likely to be more helpful for many users. But all this stuff aside. There are some positive sides to this. You have distro of about 30MB and some decent applications and excellent backup distro you can use for your work. You can download this small distro from it's official site - [url="http://slitaz.org"]slitaz[/url].[/quote] [quote name="starscream" post="159135" timestamp="1315509292"] Damn small linux being popular portable distro i hardly cared about anything small or anywhere near it. But i found slitaz on monday and i must say that i'm impressed. Slitaz is so far the smallest distro for me now. It is just 30MB ISO file. You can burn it on CD or use it on vmware or the virtualbox. That way you can easily test the system. There are many good things about this distro. First thing is that it is simple and frugal install with bare minimum applications inside the distro. You will not find much unnecessary things inside the distro. It also comes up with it's own GUI. I have not yet found what it is as there seems to be its own theme and i can't figure out the way around it for now. But i am planning to add other window managers and with package manager i can found out the installed stuff. I was tiold that i should be installing cooking version of the slitaz which was 2.0. But i thought 3.0 which is stable is worth installing as it was new and stable. and it is infact stable none of the bugs or boot issues so far in virtual box. I'm also going to test it under vmware player to see if it works for me. if it is then i guess it's better for suggesting others. By the way there are some thing that i would like to add about this new small linux distro. One important thing is that it is lacking a lot in tutorial and other documentation. there is one official page for that but not much of screenshots or the information that you usually see with installation just like in ubuntu. I don't know if linux users are overly confident and hostile towards newbies and expect hash learning curve. But i hope they add documentation if possible because i was googling and bining for the stuff in case of this distro. Also there are no videos and community activity. I don't even understand my way out of their forums. I should take some time to browse the site i guess. But it was kinda confusing for me to check the site and it's section for the docs and some other stuff. Its weird design for the linux distro in my opinion. That aside, there seems to be active development from them and updates of fixes are also regular which is good thing considering this distro is likely to be more helpful for many users. But all this stuff aside. There are some positive sides to this. You have distro of about 30MB and some decent applications and excellent backup distro you can use for your work. You can download this small distro from it's official site - [url="http://slitaz.org"]slitaz[/url].[/quote]

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yordan

Posted 04 October 2011 - 09:55 AM

oops... tried installing it to my usb but it wouldn't boot... i think it isn't supported (yet) by the tool i used or it's just not live capable???

Have a look at the wikipedia article mentionned by Quatrux, in order to check the way installing the USB boot (using tazusb or netbootin).

I came across slitaz a few years ago and found it a nifty little distro. I only really got the distro to use aircrack with. I threw it on my acer aspire one (slitaz was originally designed for that netbook) booting it off a flash disk using unetbootin to put it on. It was incredibly handy because I was able to just carry the key around with me and 'test' wireless security around my various friends homes.

I couldn't find much use for the previous versions beyond aircrack through as KDE would crash four out of five times when startx'ing it up and it didn't really have any other software worth using on the command line. I thought the crash might have been related to the flash disk, so I tried putting it on cd and still the same problem. After that I installed it off the cd on to a hdd and yet still the KDE server would crash when loading the GUI.

What you were saying about the german keyboard layout being default wasn't the case the previous versions, it was US, but you also had 5 seconds on the initial startup to change the keyboard layout as well simply by typing uk, us, de etc. during startup (which was handy because i'm sick of US default OS's lol) but the selection was kind of limited. I think there were only about 10 different keyboard layouts.

Downloading the latest version of slitaz now to have a little look. Since they've released a newer version recently hopefully they have sorted the stability issues. I noticed they've updated it with a 2.6 kernel, the older one was only 2.2 so that's a bonus. Also they've included a wider variety of keyboard layouts and expanded the UTF library.

Glad to see slitaz is back in development though.

manuleka

Posted 04 October 2011 - 05:47 AM

oops... tried installing it to my usb but it wouldn't boot... i think it isn't supported (yet) by the tool i used or it's just not live capable???

Quatrux

Posted 03 October 2011 - 12:55 PM

What I've heard about SliTaz is that it can run quite well on very old computers, it's like an OS for people having very old computers, even though it's also amazing that it's so small in size, only 30 MB

More on Wikipedia about SliTaz: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SliTaz

manuleka

Posted 02 October 2011 - 07:03 PM

ok... 30MB it's quite handy as a USB bootable tool for all sort of diagnosis purposes and data backing up and stuff... 30MB wow

yordan

Posted 02 October 2011 - 10:32 AM

Just boot on the iso and see if it does what you want.

manuleka

Posted 02 October 2011 - 07:29 AM

So for a stansard user like myself this distro shouls be running well on a netbook wireless drivers sound etc?

yordan

Posted 01 October 2011 - 11:16 AM

I'm using slitaz-3.0. Very few things are missing.
For instance telnetd nor sshd aren't running, so no access from outside. So it has to be seen as a client-only system, and not as partly a server like most of Unix or Linux machines.

manuleka

Posted 01 October 2011 - 11:10 AM

yea i was looking at screenshots of slitaz and dsl, it isn't the most pleasant but it does have a simple and functional OS and desktop running...

starscream

Posted 01 October 2011 - 05:38 AM

As per their site, current version is 3.0 which is updated this year. Before that they had release named cook. So that version 2 or so is going on even after 2008. So maybe that they're into this release and shown that in front page. Check if the version 3 has everything you want. You can even run it under virtual machine like say bochs or virtual box ? I guess it works under these two just like vmware. Also the installation is very easy and in just 10 or so minutes you'll get functional desktop.

Early version of slitaz was at 25 MB. Of course some of the stuff was turned off in that. Compared to puppy linux and damn small linux it is still small. So for most of the boot related stuff and the live cd it is good option.Being a frugal distro, you have to add additional software packages inside the distro. Only drawback is that you'll hit some german text once in while. I did find it and so same with yordan :unsure:

As you're using linux mint for the low down version of ubuntu. I am sure you'll like the slitaz distro. If not just turn off the virtual machine. lol. For graphics and the apps it may not be the type of distro you want to use.

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