Standard Edition SLAX

SLAX is a Linux Live CD. It does not need to be installed as it boots and runs from a CD drive. It is possible to run SLAX on a computer without a hard disk. There is also an option to run SLAX from RAM, freeing the drive for other uses, such as for a DVD or music CD. SLAX is based on Slackware Linux. SLAX Standard and Kill Bill use KDE as their desktop environment, while Popcorn uses XFCE. Fluxbox is an option in all versions except Frodo for users with a low amount of RAM. The logo for the Slax live CD File links The following pages link to this file: Slax ... The logo for the Slax live CD File links The following pages link to this file: Slax ... The logo for the Slax live CD File links The following pages link to this file: Slax ... Tux, a penguin, is the official Linux mascot. ... A LiveCD is an operating system (usually containing other software as well) stored on a bootable CD-ROM that can be executed from it, without installation on a hard drive. ... CD may stand for: compact disc Canadian Forces Decoration cash dispenser (at least used in Japan) CD LPMud Driver Centrum-Demokraterne (Centre Democrats of Denmark) certificate of deposit České dráhy (Czech Railways) Chad (NATO country code) Chalmers Datorförening (computer club of the Chalmers University of Technology) a 1960s Panhard race... DVD is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for storing data, including movies with high video and sound quality. ... Slackware is a Linux distribution. ... KDE (K Desktop Environment) is a free desktop environment and development platform built with Trolltechs Qt toolkit. ... The default outlook of Xfce 4. ... Screenshot of Fluxbox with a customized theme. ...

The current version of SLAX is 5.0.5 which is around 190MB, released on May 5, 2005. May 5 is the 125th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (126th in leap years). ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ...

Editions of SLAX

There are three other editions of SLAX besides the Standard Edition:

• KillBill - Has Wine, DosBox and Qemu.

• Popcorn - Fits in 128MB and has XFCE, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, AbiWord, etc.

• Frodo - Serves as base for other releases, no GUI, basically just command prompt.

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Features

SLAX contains the following software:

1. Linux Kernel 2.6.11.6
2. X.org 6.8.1
3. UnionFS & SquashFS
4. KDE 3.4
5. MPlayer 1.0pre6a with KPlayer
6. Rdesktop (rscp in KDE)
7. Hotplug support
8. Cdrtools
9. Mutt email client
10. Wget

A full list of software can be found at SLAX software page UnionFS is a file system that presents the union of all the files and directories of several file systems. ...

Author

SLAX, despite it being open source was made by one man; Tomas Matejicek, using the Linux Live scripts and Slackware as a base. Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ...

WHAX - a distribution based on SLAX

WHAX, whose name is a combination of Whitehat and SLAX, is a distribution designed for security tasks. WHAX was emerged from WHoppiX, actually the same distribution, but based on Knoppix. When WHoppix reached version 3.0 it was renamed into WHAX, due to the mother distribution change. Customized by an Israeli security consultant, this distribution makes it possible to verify the security of a network from many different computers and places. A Whitehat, also rendered as White hat or White-hat, is, in the realm of Information technology, a name that describes a person who is ethically opposed to the abuse of Computer systems. ... Knoppix is a Linux distribution LiveCD. Knoppix is a Debian based Linux distribution running on a CD drive without using the hard drive or installing any files onto the hard drive. ...

External links

• SLAX Homepage
• SLAX at DistroWatch.com

• WHAX at DistroWatch.com