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| Slax 7 desktop |
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| KD4 Desktop |
Slax is a Live operating system based on Linux. Live means it runs from an external media without any need for permanent installation. Slax boots from USB mass storage devices such as Flash Drive keys as well as from regular hard drives and CD/DVD discs. Entire Slax operating system resides in a single directory /slax/ on your device, making it easier to organize with your other data.
Slax provides KDE4 desktop environment already preconfigured for the most common tasks. Included are applications and tools for data recovery, multimedia playback, instant messaging, web and more. Slax has zram support activated by default, which is a new technology for automatic RAM compression. Thanks to it, Slax runs on computers with as low as 48MB of RAM (in text mode). You can put Slax on wide range of different filesystems, including EXT (ext2,ext3,ext4), btrfs, and even FAT and NTFS.
When Slax is started from a read-only media such as CD/DVD, it keeps all system modifications in memory only, and all the modifications are lost when you reboot. On the other hand, if you run Slax from a writable device such as USB Flash Drive, it stores all changes there, so all your configurations and modifications are restored next time you boot, even if it is on a different computer.
Slax is available for 32bit and 64bit processor architectures.
System requirements to run Slax Slax 32bit version Slax 64bit version
Processor: i486 or newer CPU, all Intel processors and AMD processors will work An x86_64 CPU, like AMD Athlon 64, Opteron, Sempron, Intel Core 2/i3/i5/i7, and others
Memory: 48 MB of RAM for text-mode 256 MB of RAM for KDE desktop 64 MB of RAM for text-mode 256 MB of RAM for KDE desktop
Peripherals: CD or USB drive to boot from CD or USB drive to boot from
Optionally: network card, sound card network card, sound card
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Here is a snapshot of Slax 7.0.8 which run on my custom PC with low specifications Intel Pentium Celeron 2.53GHz Mobo: VC37 640Mb of Ram 750Gb of Storage 4Mb Matrox Graphic Card |
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| Though my Graphic card is a Creepy 4Mb which i cannot Play flash video on windows but it work pretty cool on Slax 7 |
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| Gwenview photo viewer |
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| Konqueror Web browser and File Manager |
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| It comes with a Popular web browser Firefox |
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| Dolphine File Manager |
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| Slax 7 system settings. very simple |
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| Slax Network Connection interface. |
which other Linux distros does not.
Slax 7 comes with your basic needs.
Graphic
KDE Image viewer an image viewer
Okular Document viwer
Kcolor Color chooser
Internet
Firefox web browser
Pidgin Internet messenger
KRDC Remote Desktop Client
Krfb Desktop Sharing
KNetAttach Network folder wizard
Multimedia
SMPlayer multimedia player
JukMusick Audio player
KMix Audio controller
Utillities
ArkArchiving Tool Archiving tool
Kate Text editor
Kcalc Calculater
Sweeper System cleaner
you can also download a lot of module on it own website.
If you want a portable Linux distro (217MB) for home and Office use i will edge you to use Slax.
It work out of the box.
Download Slax 7.0.8 ISO here
