Everyday Linux User Review of SLAX

Introduction If you go to distrowatch.com and look down the rankings you will see at number 24 a distribution called SLAX. It is very hard ...Read more »

Slax 7.0 - Slax Is Back

December 2012 saw the final release of Slax 7.0 after more than three years without an update, quickly followed by several bug-fix point re...Read more »

SLAX 7.0: The Comeback

It was the operating system I was waiting for a long time, simply because I felt nostalgic about it. SLAX SLAX 6 was (practically) the first...Read more »

New Design for Slax.org, Preparing Final Release

Just in time for the expected final release of Slax 7.0 on Monday after all this time the web site has had a makeover as well to serve as a ...Read more »

Slax 7.0 Getting Closer

Since the announcement that he has secured some major corporate sponsors for taking up the development of Slax again Tomas M has been hard ...Read more »

Slax 7 Is On The Way

Chances are you already know this if you're into Slackware based live distributions that are using SquashFS for an easy to manage modula...Read more »

SalixOS: older brother of SLAX

My second advent into world of Linux happened somewhere in September 2010. It was so much unusual experience for me that I decided to put my...Read more »

3-in-1: How 3 Old Friends Can Be Found In Same Place

Can you ever expect that three of your oldest friends which belong to different companies can be found in the same place? Difficult to imagi...Read more »

DarkDuck in Quadro Boot

I tried few dozens of different Linux distributives already and wrote my notes about them in this blog . You can see them listed on the righ...Read more »

Did Alexandre Dumas Use Linux?

Porteus system is relatively new system on the Linux sky. It came to light when developer of SLAX , Tomas M. gave up the project. Even bef...Read more »

Slax Community Remix Renamed to Porteus Portable Linux

Last December I wrote about the Slax Community Remix on Distrowatch. At the time of writing the latest release of this dedicated community o...Read more »

When Old Is Better Than New, or Comparing Two Ages of Brothers

My first acquittance with Linux happened to be with Slackware-based pocket distributive of SLAX . My first blog posts, then written in Russi...Read more »

Two Non-buntu Alternatives for your Netbook - Part 1: Fluxflux-sl

Chances are several of you, or somebody close to you, got a new netbook over the festive period, and now you are faced with the agonising qu...Read more »

Article re. Slax is out on Distrowatch.com

My article about the Slax community remix is out as this week's feature story on Distrowatch. I've been wanting to write about Slax ...Read more »

3 reasons to drop penguin and no reasons to pick up another

SLAX I’ve written a few words about SLAX disappointments earlier . 1) First issue was not so significant for me. This is inability to work p...Read more »

How to put a system in a pocket?

I wanted to introduce myself to Linux for a long time. Back in a year 1999 I downloaded the Linux distribution (imagine the amount of CD to ...Read more »