SliTaz is a free micro GNU/Linux distro using BusyBox, a Linux kernel, and GNU free software. SliTaz's goal is to have a GNU/Linux distro working in memory (RAM). Installable to a hard disk, with good support for French language oriented web, it offers 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 éditor and much more. SliTaz's ISO image will always fit on less than 30 Mb, to try and give you a reasonable selection of software.

Here are some key features of "SliTaz GNU Linux":

· Root filesystem taking about 80 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 JWM running on the top of Xvesa (X server).
· Home made graphical boxes to command line utilities.
· More than 440 packages easily installable from the mirror.
· Active and friendly community.

What's New in 20080716 Development Release:

· So, we released a new Cooking version with a lot of improvement from 1.0. SliTaz use Openbox has default Window manager and Obconf to configure it graphically, update to Kernel 2.6.25.5 with build-in support for XFS and wifi through the packages manager. The desktop avec icons, Packages can now be managed through the graphical Packages Manager Tazpkgbox. The image ISO of 28.6 MB provides also MPlayer, Notecase, Lua, Hardinfo, many updates and more than 200 packages added to the repository. SliTaz can now also boot from the Internet! Web boot for everyone with gPXE and http://boot.slitaz.org/.