SLAX 4.0.4

[Gordon Darling]

SLAX 4.0.4

A miniCD-based Linux distribution based on Slackware and Linux Live scripts.

About:
SLAX is a Slackware-based live CD. It is a 185 MB Linux distribution that
is designed to fit on 8cm mini CD-Rs or 256MB USB FlashDrives. It contains
KDE and FluxBox desktop environments and the latest packages and kernel
from Slackware Current. It also features many add-ons.

Changes:
This release added Xfree 4.4.0, KDE 3.2.1, floppy tools, K3B 0.11.9, and an
845patch boot option for Intel's i845G chipset. The lang= functionality
was removed and a load=... boot option that loads all specified modules
from the /optional/ directory (eg. load=wine,xmms,lang_fr) was
implemented. smbmount was fixed, as were FTP upload directory permissions.

Release focus: Major feature enhancements
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Project URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/slax/

Homepage: http://slax.linux-live.org
Tar/GZ: http://freshmeat.net/redir/slax/38778/url_tgz/download.php

Regards
Gordon

 

[ms]

SLAX 4.0.4

A miniCD-based Linux distribution based on Slackware and Linux Live scripts.

About:
SLAX is a Slackware-based live CD. It is a 185 MB Linux distribution that
is designed to fit on 8cm mini CD-Rs or 256MB USB FlashDrives. It contains
KDE and FluxBox desktop environments and the latest packages and kernel
from Slackware Current. It also features many add-ons.

Changes:
This release added Xfree 4.4.0, KDE 3.2.1, floppy tools, K3B 0.11.9, and an
845patch boot option for Intel's i845G chipset. The lang= functionality
was removed and a load=... boot option that loads all specified modules
from the /optional/ directory (eg. load=wine,xmms,lang_fr) was
implemented. smbmount was fixed, as were FTP upload directory permissions.

Release focus: Major feature enhancements
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Project URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/slax/

Homepage: http://slax.linux-live.org
Tar/GZ: http://freshmeat.net/redir/slax/38778/url_tgz/download.php

Regards
Gordon

I have a CD from a Linux book, containing Slackware 2.0

For a beginner in Linux, is Slackware 2 useful, too complex, buggy,
what??

Mike Sa

 

[Frank Hahn]

I have a CD from a Linux book, containing Slackware 2.0

For a beginner in Linux, is Slackware 2 useful, too complex, buggy,
what??

My personal opinion is that it is really too old to be used. I would
guess the kernel is pre 2.0 series. There has been a lot of improvement
in both the kernel, hardware support, hardware detection, security, etc
over the 5-8 years since 2.0 series came out. Presently, I think the
most recent Slackware release is 9.1.

If you don't want to download a full distribution (I think the current
Slackware covers at least 4 CD's if you want all of the extras and source
code, etc.), maybe one of the distributions that runs from bootable will
work for you. There are even distributions that will run from a USB pen
drive.

I just did a quick Google search for "linux distributions" and came up
with several promising sites. This one might be of interest (have not
visited it until tonight):

http://www.linuxiso.org/

It looks like it gives a small summary of several distributions.

Again, these are just my personal opinions.

 

[ms]

My personal opinion is that it is really too old to be used. I would
guess the kernel is pre 2.0 series. There has been a lot of improvement
in both the kernel, hardware support, hardware detection, security, etc
over the 5-8 years since 2.0 series came out. Presently, I think the
most recent Slackware release is 9.1.

snip

Thanks.

Mike Sa