Damn Minuscule Linux: SliTaz 1.0
25MB... surely this is a mistake?
A Linux distribution which includes Firefox, an audio player, a CD ripper/encoder, email, FTP client and lots more... with a 25MB ISO footprint?
Someone’s having a laugh, aren’t they?
Er, actually, no they’re not, although I guarantee – yes, guarantee – you’ll be smiling if you try this amazing little live CD.
SliTaz uses what I’d call a ‘fringe’ desktop manager, JWM (Joe’s Window Manager) which, while being super-quick, isn’t as easy to manage as more popular WMs.
Still, it gets the job done and, anyway, it’s always nice to play around with a new working environment – that’s a large part of what makes Linux so interesting.
Once you run the live CD (get I here) that 25MB ISO expands to a root filesystem of around 80MB.
SliTaz is designed to run from RAM on any machine with 128MB or more (my test machine has 1024MB) but with the addition of a [slitaz-loram] boot cheat code you can get by on just 64MB.
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