Slax General


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SLAX 
Info 
Related Urls 
unofficial Slax repository 
Features 
Linux Live scripts 
Info 
Source 
Related Urls 
Description 
What's new 
How do I remove packages? 
How do I remove packages? 

SLAX 

Info 

SLAX
http://www.slax.org/
SLAX is fast and beautiful Linux operating system which fits on small
(3.14") CD-ROM disc. It runs directly from the CD (or USB) without
installing.

unofficial Slax repository 

Quax & flux's LMO
http://live-modules.org/

http://www.homesopen.com/slax6/ which has links to several other repositories.

post ur modules http://www.slax.org/forum.php?action=view&parentID=234

Features 

http://www.slax.org/features.php

Modularity
With other Live Linux systems, you're stuck with the type and amount of applications the creator decided to include. With SLAX, you can customize the system to fit your needs, by adding additional software in the form of compressed modules. SLAX itself is very useful without any modules, but you can add a lot of own programs to make it even more suitable for your needs.
Speed
Other Live CDs contain all software in a single compressed file. If you run such a Live OS from CD-ROM, the CD drive has to seek back and forth really frequently, because different files are located on different locations of the CD medium. This makes the system notably slow.

With SLAX, all conformable parts of the filesystem are compressed to a standalone file, which doesn't contain anything else. For example, all files which belongs to Xwindow are packed in xwindow.mo, KOffice related stuff is in koffice.mo, etc. If you work with KOffice, you usually need only files from KOffice and nothing else; and hence all files from that part of the filesystem are separated from the rest of it, your CD drive has to seek only in a 10 MB area. This significantly improves the speed.