document updated 14 years ago, on Sep 13, 2009
SLAX is an awesome live-CD distro:
- size
- in its default configuration, it's only 200mb, but unlike other distros that are smaller than it, it feels like a proper full OS
- if you only get slax-core, that's almost all you ever need for the command-line, and it's only 50mb, and again, it's a complete distro (man pages, Perl, etc), whereas 30mb and smaller distros don't include everything you want
- if you include slax-core and slax-dev, then you get gcc and everything you'd ever want from the command line, for only 85mb
- everything seems eminently sane
- /slax/rootcopy/ is so nice, and so brain-dead obvious, but not every other distro includes something like it
- the package system is dead-simple, and it works very well
- making a USB stick bootable is just one script (it's included)
- recreating an .iso with your changes is just one script (it's included)