SliTaz

SliTaz GNU/Linux is a lightweight Linux distribution, community-based, suitable for use on older hardware and as a Live CD or Live USB. SliTaz stands for "Simple, Light, Incredible, Temporary Autonomous Zone" according to the boot screen.

Features SliTaz uses the Openbox window manager.

Additional packages are added using a program called "TazPanel". This is due to the specific package format that SliTaz uses (tazpkg). It can still use packages from the more popular distributions though, as Debian, by means of first carrying out a conversion of these different packages.Converting debian packages to tazpkg using convert command

By default, SliTaz offers no persistence, however it can still be added if the user wishes. The choice of the filesystem/bootloader used with SliTaz is then of importance however; persistence being only available with ext2 and ext3 filesystems and the syslinux or extlinux boot loader.Filesystem warning

Another useful tool is TazLiTo, with which users can create their own LiveCD based on selected packages or even based upon the current system state.

System requirements SliTaz GNU/Linux is supported on all machines based on the i486 or x86 Intel compatible processors. The Live CD has four variants of SliTaz, requiring 192 MB of RAM for the Core system and 48 MB for text mode and the X Window System.

SliTaz can even run in 24 MB of RAM and a little swap memory. SliTaz can be booted from a Live CD, Live USB, floppy disk, or a local area network (PXEPXE with SliTaz), or can be installed, requiring approximately 80 MB of hard disk space.

TazLito TazLito (Taz Live Tool) is the LiveCD creation utility in SliTaz GNU/Linux.

Common Operations

Check Root Check to ensure UID is zero (i.e., TazLito was run by root or root sudoer).

Check Root File System Looks for the existence of an etc. directory in the root file system directory. N.B., this does not do any further checking to ensure anything is actually in the directory. However, if TazLito is used for all LiveCD creation operations (that is, one does not create/modify the directories used by TazLito) the directories existence implies it is populated properly.

Verify Root CD Looks for the existence of a boot directory in the root CD directory. N.B., this does not do any further checking to ensure anything is actually in the directory. However, if TazLito is used for all LiveCD creation operations (that is, one does not create/modify the directories used by TazLito) the directories existence implies it is populated properly.

Generate initramfs Executes scripts for packages altering the root file system Hard links redundant files in the root filesystem to save space Runs cpio to create the initramfs, compressing with lzma or gzip (or no compression)

Release history VersionRelease dateStability 1.0 23 March 2008 Stable version 2.0 16 April 2009 3.0 28 March 2010 4.0 10 April 2012 Current stable version 5.0 RC1 2 May 2014 Preview version 5.0 RC2 19 May 2014 5.0 RC3 20 May 2015 5.0 5 November 2017 Rolling release

As with any Linux distribution, the route of development of SliTaz is mainly determined by the coders themselves. For SliTaz 5, some major changes seem to be the swapping of systemd by BusyBox's init and udev, hence avoiding safety risks, and more implementation of Qt.Buildroot Slitaz post by coder An implementation of x64 and ARM architectures are currently under development.

Reception Dedoimedo reviewed SliTaz GNU/Linux 1.0. and commented:Slitaz Linux - Tiny but fierce, Dedoimedo

Dedoimedo also reviewed version 2.0.Slitaz 2 - 30MB of joy, Dedoimedo

DistroWatch published a review of SliTaz GNU/Linux 1.0:First look at SliTaz GNU/Linux 1.0, the smallest desktop distro on earth, DistroWatch Weekly

A 2022 review of SliTaz 5.0 in Full Circle magazine concluded:

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