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 �ditor 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.


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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 This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Boot scripts rewritten and faster (super-fast booting)
· All home-made boxes improved (tazctrlbox, tazhw, wifibox, burnbox, mountbox, netbox, serverbox, installer)
· Switch to Xorg from Xvesa
· Switch to Midori as the default web browser
· Better hardware support - wifi cards, webcams, 3G-modems, printers, scanners
· Better themes and desktop integration
· Faster virtualization with lguest
· SliTaz pro: OpenERP, LAMP, GLPI and more
· Easier to customize LiveCD and LiveUSB (tazlitobox and tazusbbox)
· Tazpkg supports new features including the conversion of deb/rpm/arch/slackware/ipk packages to Slitaz native format
· Packages are now automatically built by a build bot (Tazbb)
· More contributors and stronger community
· 900 packages added to the database and many updates
· More than 2800 commits by contributors