Comments on: Slax: Clean, cute and quick to customize

By: Application lists « Motho ke motho ka botho

Application lists « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 13:04:26 +0000

[...] if there wasn’t enough already to make Slax a miracle sent from heaven, you can actually filter its software database for applications that run at the console. Be careful [...]

By: Five distros for “fast” machines « Motho ke motho ka botho

Five distros for “fast” machines « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 13:20:21 +0000

[...] was next, which was suggested a few months back when I was poking around with the magical Slax distro. Salix uses Slackware and throws together an XFCE desktop that’s [...]

By: Short and sweet: cwm « Motho ke motho ka botho

Short and sweet: cwm « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:41:09 +0000

[...] and sweet: cwm Published 2010/06/18 Linux Leave a Comment A while back, when I looked at Slax, I found an oddball little window manager listed among the options in the Fluxbox right click menu: [...]

By: James

James — Sun, 23 May 2010 01:27:09 +0000

I’m surprised nobody has mentioned SuSE Studio. http://susestudio.com/

Pre-download customization to the *max*. You can edit pretty much any part of the filesystem,add custom repositories, etc. You can even preview it remotely before downloading the ISO.

By: colonelcrayon

colonelcrayon — Sun, 09 May 2010 21:17:07 +0000

You can get a SLAX system installed and update it with the appropriate Slackware packages, which is a nice shortcut around the normal Slack install process.

By: Luca

Luca — Sun, 09 May 2010 19:52:48 +0000

Hmm… interesting. I’ve always wanted a distro that I can use to recover broken Windows systems (I guess that is the problem with being technical…) however haven’t yet come across one. It sounds like making one with Slax would be easy enough. Thanks!

By: Distro-hopping notes « Motho ke motho ka botho

Distro-hopping notes « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sat, 08 May 2010 00:23:29 +0000

[...] like, but every time I use it I am frustrated and befuddled and left feeling like a newb again. My run-in with Slax the other day was both the cause and the effect of trying out Slackware 13: I started with the Slax [...]

By: Links 7/5/2010: Phoronix Test Suite 2.6; Ryzom Becomes Free Software | Techrights

Fri, 07 May 2010 07:36:59 +0000

[...] Slax: Clean, cute and quick to customize For tinkerers, one of the coolest and slickest distros out there is probably Slax. I don’t mention Slax much, because it’s one of those things I have to actively veer away from — it’s too entertaining to modify and adjust and tweak and realign and … and that takes up a godawful amount of my time. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a lot of fun — but I become focused and lose track of events while adding this or subtracting that. One must know one’s limitations. [...]

By: WaveFunction

WaveFunction — Fri, 07 May 2010 04:31:11 +0000

@poss: Slackware was my second linux OS (right after RedHat 7/8). It was a good distro for when I had time to tinker, manually install some things, and felt like recompiling my kernel. Of course, that was also five or six major revisions prior to what it is now.

In my personal opinion, Slax, Arch, and Slitaz are all much more… “developed” seems like the wrong word. I guess it all depends on what you feel like. When in doubt, fire up a virtual machine (or spare hardware) and give it a crack.

@K.Mandla: I love your blog. I also have you to thank for showing me the tools that make me a super-hero at work. Please don’t let this blog die, or if you must, at least give us some notice so it can be saved like the best of the internet should.

By: poss

poss — Fri, 07 May 2010 01:16:46 +0000

Thanks for the review i will definately have a look at this one. I installed vector-linux-light on an MMX a few weeks ago and was quite impressed and i think that (VL) is also “slackware based”. Has anyone on here used the actual Slackware distro? I haven’t but i’d be interested to here some comments about it.