SLAX is just amazing! I registered to this website solely to leave a recommendation for the unbeatable king of live operating systems. I have been using Ubuntu for my laptop computer, but after its harddisk has been broken down, I searched for an operating system bootable from a USB drive and found that SLAX is one of the few that fits into a 2gb drive. Furthermore, its modular approach to additional software makes so easy and convenient for customization from its basic fresh state which alone has quite extensible range of great software. The general experience of using it was flawless though it took me quite a bit of time to find out that "/mnt/sda1/slax/modules" is the only location I should put the .lzm module files to make them persistent. One more thing I wanna mention for Windows users is that it's easy to format USB drive with "HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool" if it has been formatted in unrecognizable file systems in the process of trying several linux operating systems along your selection process for better live operating system for your machine.
In the future era of network-based computing, software installation would be the annoying thing from the past (of course, it only applies to client machines). What you need is just a set of essential software and a decent web browser of your choice. The rule is that software installation is obsolete and we don't need it anymore. So we don't need to install OS to our machines anymore. It's just annoying and cumbersome. SLAX shows the future, what it feels if we can carry our whole workspace with a pendrive. I guess in the near future, we would be able to boot from cloud storage system such as DropBox, which means we don't even need a pendrive to boot up our machines with the same set of software. SLAX is the model of future computing and I felt it so deeply today.
Submitted by blackbelt_jones on Sun, 08/02/2009 - 5:43pm.
Slax is amazing. Among other things, Slax is my current installed distro. There appears to be some kind of kernel-driver problem with Slackware on this system. But Slax works fine. And once installed to the hard drive with the slax2hd module, Slax is able to install all of the software from the `Slackware 12.2 DVD. Except for the login, I can't tell that I'm not running Slackware.
I've also been able to copy it to my RAM, essentially running a live CD without a CD in the drive. Like most slackware-based Live CDs, Slax has a preset root password, and it also has an optional text login. It doesn't have a preset root account. This makes it easy to mount a hard drive or flash device as /home:
(mount /dev/sda1)
create a user account on the device:
(adduser pitbull)
create a new secure root password
(passwd root)
logout with "exit",log back in as a normal user
And you've got a remarkably good approximation of an installed system, but if you've used a flash drive, it's portable. Plug the flash drive in, boot the CD, and run the same system on any computer, same files, same configuration, same everything. Other live CDs can probably be hacked to do this, but like everything else with Slax, Slax makes it simple and straight forward.
There are so many other things Slax can do! Haven't even talked about the packaging system and the custom CD builder. Also, the defualt version of Slax is less than 200 MB, and takes about ten minutes to download with a DSL connection.
And it works so well! Really fast! Really carefree!
IMO, one of the great things about Slackware, by the way, are the great distros that have been created from it. Apparently, the simplicity of Slackware lends itself to creativity. Slax, Vector Linux, and Zenwalk Linux are all really interesting creations in ther own right.
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SLAX is just amazing! I registered to this website solely to leave a recommendation for the unbeatable king of live operating systems. I have been using Ubuntu for my laptop computer, but after its harddisk has been broken down, I searched for an operating system bootable from a USB drive and found that SLAX is one of the few that fits into a 2gb drive. Furthermore, its modular approach to additional software makes so easy and convenient for customization from its basic fresh state which alone has quite extensible range of great software. The general experience of using it was flawless though it took me quite a bit of time to find out that "/mnt/sda1/slax/modules" is the only location I should put the .lzm module files to make them persistent. One more thing I wanna mention for Windows users is that it's easy to format USB drive with "HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool" if it has been formatted in unrecognizable file systems in the process of trying several linux operating systems along your selection process for better live operating system for your machine.
In the future era of network-based computing, software installation would be the annoying thing from the past (of course, it only applies to client machines). What you need is just a set of essential software and a decent web browser of your choice. The rule is that software installation is obsolete and we don't need it anymore. So we don't need to install OS to our machines anymore. It's just annoying and cumbersome. SLAX shows the future, what it feels if we can carry our whole workspace with a pendrive. I guess in the near future, we would be able to boot from cloud storage system such as DropBox, which means we don't even need a pendrive to boot up our machines with the same set of software. SLAX is the model of future computing and I felt it so deeply today.
Sangcheol Park, Seoul, South Korea
Slax is amazing. Among other things, Slax is my current installed distro. There appears to be some kind of kernel-driver problem with Slackware on this system. But Slax works fine. And once installed to the hard drive with the slax2hd module, Slax is able to install all of the software from the `Slackware 12.2 DVD. Except for the login, I can't tell that I'm not running Slackware.
I've also been able to copy it to my RAM, essentially running a live CD without a CD in the drive. Like most slackware-based Live CDs, Slax has a preset root password, and it also has an optional text login. It doesn't have a preset root account. This makes it easy to mount a hard drive or flash device as /home:
(mount /dev/sda1)
create a user account on the device:
(adduser pitbull)
create a new secure root password
(passwd root)
logout with "exit",log back in as a normal user
And you've got a remarkably good approximation of an installed system, but if you've used a flash drive, it's portable. Plug the flash drive in, boot the CD, and run the same system on any computer, same files, same configuration, same everything. Other live CDs can probably be hacked to do this, but like everything else with Slax, Slax makes it simple and straight forward.
There are so many other things Slax can do! Haven't even talked about the packaging system and the custom CD builder. Also, the defualt version of Slax is less than 200 MB, and takes about ten minutes to download with a DSL connection.
And it works so well! Really fast! Really carefree!
IMO, one of the great things about Slackware, by the way, are the great distros that have been created from it. Apparently, the simplicity of Slackware lends itself to creativity. Slax, Vector Linux, and Zenwalk Linux are all really interesting creations in ther own right.
SLAX is everything to a LINUX newbie. My personal rating 9.95 / 10...