SLAMPP Lite For Linux

As its name suggests, SLAMPP Lite is a lite version of the SLAMPP Live CD Linux operating system that provides a minimal home server system which runs entirely from a CD disc or USB drive. It is created with the Linux Live scripts and built around the lightweight Xfce graphical desktop environment.

The Lite edition of SLAMPP can be downloaded from Softpedia or via the project’s official homepage as a minimal Live CD ISO image that has approximately 250 MB in size. It boots on computers supporting either of the 32-bit or 64-bit instruction set architecture and fits on a CD disc or a USB thumb drive.

The Live CD boot menu is very minimal and comes with no usable option. The user must press the Enter key on his or her keyboard to start the live system with the default kernel or press the F1 key to access a help screen with detailed information about possible boot options.

By default, you will be dropped to a shell prompt where you’ll have to login using the “root” username and the “slampp” password. From here, you can run the operating system in text-mode or start the Xfce desktop environment by executing the “startx” command at the boot prompt. Xfce uses a two-panel layout.

Being designed from the ground up to be as minimal and low on resources as possible, the Lite edition of SLAMPP Linux comes with a handful of software packages. Among the most important ones, we can mention the XAMPP Apache, MySQL, PHP and Perl distribution, BIND DNS server, DHCP server, Dovecot and Sendmail email server, SSH (Secure Shell) server, Bluefish HTML editor, Firestarter firewall, ClamAV antivirus and Sylpheed email client.