SLAX Linux - Your pocket operating system - Review
SLAX is a small, live Linux distro, based on Slackware. It aims to be light, friendly and useful. It's meant to fit onto antique USB thumb drives and run well on old hardware. And it features the sexy KDE desktop. Plus there's a revolutionary modules management. This fine list of features made it a worthy candidate for testing. The version chosen for this review was 6.0.9.
Challenge ahead
Creating small yet practical distros is a difficult task. Because small (or pocket-size) distros are not meant to be replacements for large, full-install operating systems like Ubuntu, SUSE, Fedora, PCLinuxOS, and others. Rather, they complement the big lot. But to be appealing, they have to be more than just small. Making them small is quite easy. Making them small and keeping all the functionality is quite hard. People will want their distros to be small, but they will not want to give up anything in return: Wireless, multimedia codecs, NTFS support, these are all a must.
Puppy Linux does this extremely well. Damn Small Linux is another fine, feisty little fighter. But they are both lightweight distros, under 100MB. Then, there's the middleweight, versatile and unique NimbleX, with 200MB footprint, definitely a keeper.
Can SLAX be your favorite pocket distro? Let's see ...
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