Hi all, I read in Ynet some comments regarding Kazit's distribution, and among the comments I saw someone who said that "SLAX solved most problems of Kazit". So, curious me, I decided to google it and give it a try. I found SLAX - Slackware-based distribution LiveCD. These are the results (under the Pentium 4 3.0GHz computer):
extremly fast loading (in comparison to knoppix), *full* hardware recognition (I heard a little song when it got into KDE...), down to the little details of them. The CD includes: Linux Kernel 2.4.28-pre2 with SATA support, Xorg 6.7.0, KDE 3.3.0, KOffice 1.3.2, Mplayer 1.05pre5 (with Kplayer), kopete, midnight commander, cdrtools, hotplug support and much more tools which you will have to see for yourself. Network was easily recognized and installed, and I only had to do "dhcpcd eth1" after it logged in (once again - cables, no dialer). On a 183MB LiveCD (yes, it can fit to a mini-CD!), it includes everything that you might have wanted from a LiveCD. Sleek design, and ease of use. It has nice options such as copying all the distribution to the HD (to use it via FAT or ext2/3), to the RAM (my favorite choice. Needs at least 256MB of RAM for that. remarkably improves performance), or even to a disk-on-key. Temporary files/saves/etc can be stored on one of these memory devices as well (on the RAM it will be erased immidiately after reboot, ofcourse). In addition to all that, it has a special modules ISO (or an addendum to the original SLAX CD, if you wish), which include development tools and other tools (around 55MB of image). The only thing that needs to be treated - Hebrew (as usual). Same as Knoppix. It has nice European support (many European languages are installed). Hebrew can be installed for keyboard layout, reading, and writing, but from people's comments - they see my Hebrew as "????", so it needs to be fixed. I am not sure where the charset configurations are - so if people want to give it a try and help me with this - I will be glad. Bottom line - Slax (which is based on Slackware X), really surprised me, for good. The fastest LiveCD which I've ever seen, and in a mini-CD, it includes everything that a user need (without development tools, which are found in another image, and can be combined later to one CD, but a regular one). If we fix the little Hebrew problem - this can be a serious potential to be a mini-CD for the instaparty. Once again, I'm looking to hear *relevant* comments about the issue (comments such as "Slackware is bad for your health" are not relevant, for example). Please try it yourself (for real), and let me know what you think. Here are some links: Direct link to download: ftp://ftp.linux.cz/pub/linux/linux-live.org/SLAX-4.1.x/slax-4.1.4.iso Main page: http://slax.linux-live.org/ Download page (including modules download, and the special development image): http://slax.linux-live.org/download.php Features page (spec): http://slax.linux-live.org/features.php And nice cheatcodes (some of them you won't find in any other liveCD): http://slax.linux-live.org/cheatcodes.php And much more... I'm looking for your comments. Regards, Adir. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
