Slax 5.1.8.1 killbill edition -- first impressions
Submitted by srlinuxx on Thu, 04/05/2007 - 19:36.
Slax is a live CD that I've been very anxious to try. Any distro that claims to be light on hardware -- yet features the KDE desktop -- is something I've got to try. I'm beginning to think KDE gets a bad rap. It runs pretty darn well in this distro, as well as in MepisLite. And I think KOffice is a terrific package, with KWrite being one of the best programs out there for writers.
First things first. Slax is a cutdown version of Slackware, one of the first Linux distributions, and one that remains wildly popular (it's No. 10 on Distrowatch). And it's not Debian, if that means anything. I guess I mention that because so many distros use Debian as their base, it's nice to try something different.
The boot process is pretty good. The script displayed on the screen asks you to log on as root with password "toor" And there are on-screen hints, such as startx to get KDE running, flux to use Fluxbox instead, mc to run Midnight Commander and xconf to autoconfigure the graphics adapter. Startx didn't work for me -- my display didn't cooperate, so I killed X and used xconf, which did work. I got the message, "creating /etc/corg.conf ... all done. Run startx now. If you get black screen, hit Ctrl+Alt+Plus. But all was well, and I was off and running. Later, I changed resolutions in KDE, and the screen looked absolutely terrific in all its 1280 x 1024 majesty. Thanks, KDE!
And if you want to put Slax on your hard drive, slax-install will do just that.
Thin Puppy, Thin Slax, and Firefox won't work ?
Interesting reading but a few background info may help?
Puppy was Mandrake 9.2, then Slax, now T2 based.
Slax is small Slackware, and terminology uses startX(BSD) instead of xstart(SYSV).
Finally, Firefox will not work in his workplace, we all knew the trouble of cookies directory in the wrong place(non-standard). And the writer had to do "wine IE6.0"(?) to use his computer at work. Unfotunately only codeweaver will do windows(IE6.0). Puppy v2.16 could have skipstone(Mozilla) on version 0.93 to work at his workplace? Sometimes oldies work better, newbies got fooled by technology advancement(or a slight of hand; putting cookies in the wrong hand)?