Slax Is Planning A Return, But Will No Longer Be Slackware-Based

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Slax Is Planning A Return, But Will No Longer Be Slackware-Based

Longtime Linux users will likely recall the Slax distribution from back in the day that was Slackware-based, shipped with KDE, and offered a pretty nice live OS experience while being highly modular and made it easy to re-spin derivatives. Now it's coming back in new form...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Slax-Is-Back-In-2017

[wizard69]

Too bad they went Debian, I would have preferred something Fedora / RedHat based.

[FishPls]

Cool. I think unique, "experimental" distros like this are good, even if they do contribute to the "fragmentation problem".

[garegin]

It’s a live os. So it doesn't contribute to “fragmentation” one bit.
I think they need to go xfce for a live os. Or just stick with KDE.

[DanL]

Stable? Testing? Unstable?

[caligula]

Downloading files on every boot must be good for the server bandwidth..

[FishPls]

It’s a live os. So it doesn't contribute to “fragmentation” one bit.
I think they need to go xfce for a live os. Or just stick with KDE.

Is it live only?

I thought it was like Knoppix. Mainly live, but installable as well.

[c117152]

Downloading files on every boot must be good for the server bandwidth..

It's only the installer. Never done a PXE boot installation I take it?

[geearf]

It's only the installer. Never done a PXE boot installation I take it?

Slax is a live-cd, so I don't think you install it.

[audir8]

Slax might just be the first distro I booted from a USB drive, and successfully too. I like the combination of fluxbox+xlunch+compton+chromium+debian/ubuntu packages with a good persistence layer: https://www.slax.org/blog/18623-Persistent-changes.html