SliTaz GNU/Linux is a mini distribution and live CD designed to run speedily on hardware with 256 MB of RAM.

SliTaz GNU/Linux is a mini distribution and live CD designed to run speedily on hardware with 256 MB of RAM. SliTaz uses BusyBox, a recent Linux kernel and GNU software.

It boots with Syslinux and provides more than 200 Linux commands, the lighttpd web server, SQLite database, rescue tools, IRC client, SSH client and server powered by Dropbear, X window system, JWM (Joe's Window Manager), gFTP, Geany IDE, Mozilla Firefox, AlsaPlayer, GParted, a sound file editor and more. The SliTaz ISO image fits on a less than 30 MB media and takes just 80 MB of hard disk space.

Updates (via Distrowatch):

Christophe Lincoln has announced the availability of a new development release of SliTaz GNU/Linux, a fast, minimalist distribution featuring the Openbox window manager and a custom package management tool: "The SliTaz team is pleased to announce the release of a new 'Cooking' CD image featuring over 2,600 packages. It contains Linux kernel 2.6.34 and was rebuilt using a new toolchain with glibc 2.11.2 and GCC 4.5.1. X.Org Server has been fully updated to 1.9.2. The live CD includes Midori, the DeaDBeeF audio player and many applications for daily use. Tazpkg and Tazctrlbox now support gettext translations and more UTF locales have been added. Many bug fixes, updates and improvements can also be found, a lot of work have been done these last 6 month."

Visit the project's news page to read the brief release announcement.

Download: slitaz-cooking.iso (32.0MB, MD5).

Recent releases:

• 2010-11-05: Development Release: SliTaz GNU/Linux Cooking 20101104
• 2010-03-28: Distribution Release: SliTaz GNU/Linux 3.0
• 2010-02-21: Development Release: SliTaz GNU/Linux Cooking 20100221
• 2009-11-05: Development Release: SliTaz GNU/Linux Cooking 20091104
• 2009-04-17: Distribution Release: SliTaz GNU/Linux 2.0
• 2009-02-28: Development Release: SliTaz GNU/Linux Cooking-20090228

SliTaz GNU/Linux is a mini distribution and live CD designed to run speedily on hardware with 256 MB of RAM. SliTaz uses BusyBox, a recent Linux kernel and GNU software. It boots with Syslinux and provides more than 200 Linux commands, the lighttpd web server, SQLite database, rescue tools, IRC client, SSH client and server powered by Dropbear, X window system, JWM (Joe's Window Manager), gFTP, Geany IDE, Mozilla Firefox, AlsaPlayer, GParted, a sound file editor and more. The SliTaz ISO image fits on a less than 30 MB media and takes just 80 MB of hard disk space.

Overview.

Root filesystem taking about 100 MB and ISO image less than 30 MB.
Ready to use Web server powered by LightTPD with CGI and PHP support.
Browse the Web with Mozilla Firefox or Retawq in text mode.
Sound support provided by Alsa mixer, audio player and CD ripper/encoder.
Chat, mail and FTP clients.
SSH client and server powered by Dropbear.
Database engine with SQLite.
Generate a LiveUSB device.
Tools to create, edit or burn CD or DVD images.
Elegent desktop with Openbox running on the top of Xvesa (X server).
Homemade graphical boxes to command line utilities.
1400 packages easily installable from the mirror.
Active and friendly community.

This part of the site allows you to view all of the software packages available on the SliTaz mirror. The pages are automatically updated daily via a cron job. All packages are installable via the package manager Tazpkg using the GUI or the command tazpkg get-install pkgname.

Stable.

Stable packages Web interface: Stable packages

Raw Stable packages lists on the mirror: packages.list | packages.txt

Cooking.

Cooking packages Web interface: Cooking packages

Raw Cooking packages lists on the mirror: packages.list | packages.txt