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Bienvenue - Bem-vindo - Welcome to the SliTaz GNU/Linux web site.
SliTaz is a free micro GNU/Linux distro using BusyBox, a Linux kernel, and GNU
free software. The goal of SliTaz is to have a GNU/Linux distro working in
memory (RAM). Installable to a hard disk, with good support for French language
web, it offers reliability, high performance and PC recycling. SliTaz boots with
Syslinux and provides more than 200 Linux commands, the LightTPD web server,
SQLite database, rescue tools, IRC client, SSH client/server powered by
Dropbear, X window system, JWM (Joe's Window Manager), gFTP, Geany IDE,
Mozilla Firefox, Alsaplayer, Gparted, a sound file editor and much more.
SliTaz's ISO image will always fit on less than 30 MB, and try and give you a
reasonable selection of software.
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- Cooking 20080716 - Web boot and MPlayer
SliTaz project members are proud to announce the availability of a new Cooking version, including many new features and bug fixes. This version provides the boot optionweb
which lets you boot SliTaz from the internet using gPXE from boot.slitaz.org. This new unique service offers the possibility to use SliTaz in Live mode (all in RAM), using the Live options to store your data permanently and preconfigure the system. This new Cooking takes an extra 3 Mb so we can provide: a multimedia player with MPlayer, a notes manager with Notecase, a new version of Tazpkg package manager with md5sum support, XFS filesystem support built into the Kernel, a 'man' command and a few updates. This version requires at least 160 Mb to boot and run properly, we offer loram flavors for machines with less resources. Download SliTaz Cooking ISO. - 26 Jun 2008 - Cooking 20080626 with new Kernel
Summer time is here and also the new Cooking from the 26 June. A lot of work has been done to improve user experience. This Cooking version provides a new Kernel (2.6.25.5) with many new built-in drivers and modules, linux package was also split to have a fairly modular Kernel. Default user has changed totux
and the new optionuser=name
lets you choose the default user name. Most of the Slitaz utils and tools have been improved: tazpkgbox provides some new commands for package management and bootfloppybox can be used in text mode, Netbox wifi and PPPoE support are now both working well and a new function called zeroconf is available. Most packages are up-to-date and Firefox 3.0 is part of the 25.2 Mb ISO. Cooking version can be downloaded from SliTaz mirror. Bugs can be reported on SliTaz Bug Tracking System: BTS - 18 May 2008 - Cooking 20080518 and LinuxDays.ch
SliTaz team is proud to announce the availability of a new Cooking LiveCD ISO image providing huge changes from the stable release. SliTaz now uses Openbox as it's default Window Manager, desktop icons let you launch your favorite applications and manage files and dbus and hal will automatically mount removable media such as USB keys or Hard disks. Packages can now be managed through the graphical Packages Manager Tazpkgbox and mountbox and netbox are now much more usable and complete. The LiveCD now offers: lua, a desktop search engine with searchmonkey, system information with Hardinfo, task management with LXTasks and a password and clipboard manager. All the major packages have been updated - SliTaz now uses a new toolchain using the last glibc-2.7, GTK 2.12.9 and Firefox 3.0 RC1! You will now find 580 packages on the mirror including wireless support for the kernel and the necessary tools for a manual connection or one managed by SliTaz netbox. This new announced Cooking version can be downloaded from SliTaz mirror. Note: This version is going to be used at the LinuxDay.ch in Geneva Switzerland. - 22 Mar 2008 - SliTaz GNU/Linux 1.0 release
The SliTaz contributors team are proud to announce the publication of SliTaz GNU/Linux 1.0. This is the first stable release after 2 years of work. The system is distributed as a bootable LiveCD of 24.8 MB providing a fully featured desktop environment and a generous selection of multi-use applications. SliTaz GNU/Linux 1.0 uses the Linux Kernel 2.6.24.2, providing Firefox 2.0.0.12, Rsync 3.0.0, Gparted 0.3.5 and sound support with Alsa 1.0.16. The distribution lets you listen to music, surf the Web, edit a video studio and much more with the 448 available packages that can be installed with our own package manager Tazpkg. The LiveCD lets you create a custom distro or a LiveUSB device in one single command. Security updates are provided by the project and popular packages like Firefox will also get upgraded for functionality. You can get SliTaz GNU/Linux 1.0 from the Web site download page. Read the Release Notes for more detailed information on this stable version. - 26 Feb 2008 - Updated Cooking ISO (20080225)
SliTaz project is proud to announce an updated version of the LiveCD with many bug fixes, new boot options, ACPI support and some package updates such as: Alsa 1.0.16, PHP 5.2.5, Htop 0.7, Firefox 2.0.0.12, Nano 2.0.7 and Sqlite 3.5.6. The optionhome=*
now supports devices by UUID or label (Thanks Andrew) and thelaptop
option will automatically load ac and battery Kernel modules. The project also provides a new tool Tazusb, dedicated to LiveUSB media. Tazusb lets you create bootable USB media or write the current filesystem to the media, in one single command. This version is ready for stable release, we are now writing Release Notes, preparing final artwork and a stable packages repository. You can try this updated Cooking by downloading the LiveCD ISO from SliTaz Web site. - 10 Jan 2008 - New Cooking ISO (20080107)
Paving the road to a stable release, we published a new Cooking ISO with many bug fixes and some new features. We added Asunder for audio CD ripping, Burnbox to burn ISO images, a new boot option to let you load Kernel modules at boot time (modprobe=modules
) and the LiveCD now uses Xvesa from Xorg 7.2. All the SliTaz tools and utilities have been updated with new features. Tazpkg can repack packages from a running system, Tazlito can generate a LiveCD distribution flavor with a few commands and Tazwok can check for build dependencies when building a package from source. Please check downloads area to get a copy of SliTaz LiveCD. - 16 Dec 2007 - SliTaz English forum
The project is proud the announce the availability of an English forum providing help and support to users speaking English. Since the project is French based, we get a lot of feedback and requests from the English speaking community that we want to honour. The forum has it's own domain forum.slitaz.org. The default interface is in French but settings can be changed when you login with your account. The crew is also working on the lack of English documentation. Help and assistance are greatly welcomed in the project. - 06 Dec 2007 - 2 days for a new ISO that boots twice faster!
2 days for a new ISO that boots twice faster. With the new lzma compression boot time has gone down, we worked hard these two days to improve boot speed and finally get SliTaz to boot twice as fast. So we uploaded a new LiveCD with a new Kernel patch for lzma and a bug fix for boot messages. Some tests gave us the LiveCD booting between 20 to 30 seconds on recent PCs and between 60 to 80 on older hardware. Download last Cooking. - 04 Dec 2007 - New Cooking with sound support and more options
SliTaz crew is proud to announce the availability of a new SliTaz Cooking release. It's finally not the expected stable release because we decided to add some more hardware support on the LiveCD, like sound and PCMCIA support. A new roadmap is on the stove and a stable release should be expected in March 2008, matching one year of the first SliTaz public release. This will also give us time to bring you a rock solid stable version with all these new features and more than 240 packages on the mirror. So, this new SliTaz release brings you Alsa with it's mixer, Alsaplayer, mpg123, Gcolor2, pcmciautils, and a new Kernel. SliTaz also provides new options to use at boot time and isapnptools for very old hardware like IBM GL300 6272/6282 or P133/32M. All this new stuff fits in an ISO image of 22,4 Mb. The Simple Light Incredible... SliTaz (cooking) LiveCD can be obtained on SliTaz mirror. Download. Enjoy! - 06 Nov 2007 - Last Cooking before 1.0
SliTaz project is proud to announce the last cooking version before stable release. This new version provides PHP 5.2.5, Grsync, ISO Master 1.2, Busybox 1.7.2 and much more in a ISO image of 24,7 MB. We also prepared a new theme and wallpaper for JWM and installed a Tango icon. Download SliTaz (cooking) LiveCD for free from TuxFamily mirror. All feedback is really welcome, you can use the mailing list or directly send a mail to <devel at slitaz.org>. - 12 Oct 2007 - New Cooking and stabilisation
SliTaz Cooking ISO image provides a LiveCD of 24 Mb with Firefox 2.0.0.7, Linux kernel 2.6.22.9, Rsync, ISO Master 1.1, LightTPD 1.4.18, SQLite 3.5.1, a new theme and wallpaper. The packages manager was also upgraded with Tazwok and the slitaz-tools. Transmission 0.82 can now create Torrent files. SliTaz (cooking) LiveCD can be obtained for free from TuxFamily mirror. Download.
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