Version: 9.9.0
Rating: 8
Date: 2019-06-27
Votes: 23
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You don't need to write ISO onto USB. You just have to copy slax directory in your usb. Right click in USB's file manager and open terminal there. Type 'sudo ./bootinst.bat' and it will make the USB bootable. It was the first fluxbox distro that I've have tried.
pros- Lightweight, can be used as daily desktop, doesn't look like old-fashioned 90's puppy, ISO is not more than 300MB, based on Debian.
cons- boring because you can't change the default wallpaper, you cannot put icons on desktop (this one you cannot do in bunsenlabs as well), wicd network manager should be replaced by nmapplet because whenever you will connect wired network to your computer, you have to connect it manually.
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Version: 9.8.0
Rating: 8
Date: 2019-04-13
Votes: 9
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I used to hate the new Debian-based version, but I've changed my mind. You can basically create your own recovery USB stick with it! The only downside is its weird choice of GUI.
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Version: 9.8.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-03-09
Votes: 38
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My search for the perfect lightweight Linux distro ends here!
All of my requirements were met :
i386 support ( Thinkpad X60 for its 4:3 display )
.deb/.rpm package support ( debian based, despite its name )
Chromium ( needed 32 bit Chrome that's being updated, and this one comes with the Google API as well ! )
Less than 650Mb download ( 261Mb in fact )
Ability to persist on live, in an easy manner ( SLAX actually needs additional running of the bootinst.bat to populate the USB flash MBR, without which is why I've never gotten it to run before this and gave up )
Does not run on the usual combo of JWM/IceWM ROX/SpaceFM ( for visual reasons )
3945 Wireless straight out of the box ( the network manager WiCD is sufficient )
One that most distros fail - Thinkpad trackpoint middle button scroll! ( even Debian requires thinkering )
However, apt-get installs requires some persistent tinkering through 'modules', which is why this one did not get a 10.
Overall, very satisfied at having a 261Mb download that looks good and comes with Chromium with Google APIs. I'm not even thinking of apt-get update at all here.
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Version: 9.8.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-02-20
Votes: 33
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Slax worked well for me.
I downloaded the torrent, “burned” the ISO to a flash drive. It gave me some boot options, I chose the a live version with persistence. It booted to the minimalist desktop environment without a hitch. Persistence worked great. It found my wifi network. I installed some software. No problem.
The size is amazingly small. If that is important to you this may be your distro. It is quick and simple. It has the most important basic tools: a terminal, a browser, etc. Overall a good portable operating system similar to Puppy.
Slax is not for beginners. It is so minimal that there’s nothing to show inexperienced Linux users how to proceed. (Lubuntu is a great lightweight distro for newbies)
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Version: 9.6.4
Rating: 7
Date: 2018-12-24
Votes: 1
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Yes, a modular structure with a multi-layer file system is interesting. Installed on a flash drive, and on the SSD. Until now, there are no modules themselves from the author. I had to make them myself - https://drive.google.com/open?id=121Fwcp38a3X6Rch0LuW1cx-vZGkRfW1I
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Version: 7.0.8
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-12-01
Votes: 2
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Does exactly what it says on the tin... and does it rather well. I never cease to be impressed and it's high time I upgraded my "peg" (pendrive) to the newest version. It's a godsend when I need to start a misbehaving machine or I just need a little extra privacy.
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Version: 9.6.3
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-11-24
Votes: 0
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Hello
I like the persistent mode.!!
very nice distro
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Version: 9.6.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2018-11-17
Votes: 2
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Very good and fast distro and also easy to use
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Version: 7.0.8
Rating: 9
Date: 2018-11-17
Votes: 2
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7.0.8 is still a modern smart Desktop OS with System Sounds like in Windows.
I'm a Windows User since Years, and I wanna hear the OS ''breathing''. ;)
The 9.6 version is a downgrade to a mutely ''DOS-A-Like'' System - not my Cup of Tea.
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Version: 9.5.0
Rating: 8
Date: 2018-09-11
Votes: 6
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Was looking for an alternative to Finnix since it is no longer maintained regulary.
Slax is awesome and it does exactly what it needs to do. No bells and whistles.
Light weight is something we don't see too often and this is perfect at less than 300 mb.
Something nice could be added in the next version is adding freerdp to the iso, but I can add it from the command line with apt so I still like it anyway.
Good work.
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Version: 9.5.0
Rating: 4
Date: 2018-07-23
Votes: 1
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No WiFi when you open up live. Too few options. Its not right out of the box. Its over rated
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Version: 9.5.0
Rating: 3
Date: 2018-07-23
Votes: 8
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I remember Slax was one of my favorite mini distributions based on Slackware. Super Linux constructor of the time. Then the project did not develop, then became debian based. Works average. Used to be better.
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Version: 9.4.0
Rating: 6
Date: 2018-07-22
Votes: 1
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i like the concept of it. and would use it but for the life of me can not find the volume control.
so no sound no use. did a search for volume control modules at the site and did not see any.
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Version: 9.4.0
Rating: 1
Date: 2018-06-29
Votes: 0
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Of course, every distribution is shaped by the owner's purpose. But why spend time on an OS that has nothing in it?
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Version: 9.4.0
Rating: 2
Date: 2018-04-26
Votes: 0
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Could not boot into GUI.
Creating a bootable USB is a pain. When it finally boots it stays on command line and does not load X.
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Version: 9.4.0
Rating: 7
Date: 2018-03-28
Votes: 3
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Much needed distro, unfortunately not yet as stable and useful as it should be.
Pros: fast, lightweight, APT enhanced, easy installation to the USB pendrive.
Cons: It would be nice to have the possibility of choosing e.g. Firefox or Midori over Chromium (If you try installing the former via APT, it only gives you the option to install the ESR version, i.e. 52.x., so this is not an option). It also hangs at quasi-arbitrary times, which becomes very frustrating.
Overall a good idea with a couple of improvements pending
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Version: 9.3.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2017-12-31
Votes: 3
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This is an edit for my previous post, the Lenovo E540 system. Also, a change in rating.
As promised, I looked into the app installation and the post from Nov 16 explains this change: http://www.slax.org/en/blog/24273-Proper-release-announcement.html
For any missing application we need to run the 'apt' command. Thank you to the reviwers posting after me, they have mentioned that too.
The distro becomes really powerful and flexible. For sure a must for a portable USB stick.
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Version: 9.3.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-12-29
Votes: 5
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Fantastic little distro. Its speedy, its good looking and its based on Debian so you can install any package you want. I highly recommend for a portable OS to keep on a USB stick.
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Version: 9.3.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2017-12-27
Votes: 3
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Tomas Matejicek is really great,
The idea is wonderfull, the lightest the better, boots from USB really FAST no bloatware of any type linux is lightweight and fast
and if you can add all you want simply by apt what else coud you desire?
I uderstand why he left slackware behind (I'm still with it somewhere althought)
I of course prefer another browser (guessed it? Firefox ESR) but I can Install It and if everybody likes Libreoffice I can still go OpenOffice I've got just to learn hou to put them on the homescreen, but no problem loading them from command line.
Simply fast portable, I just miss Flight Simulator 2004 on wine(?) and a decent CAD (nanoCAD 4 Linux or on wine ?) and I will be done with that other OS.
I think slax goes to the origin of Linux It's enjoiable and expandable and now runs with the trendyer and easyer distro (leaving out the desktop war G or K or wath else)
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Version: 9.3.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-12-26
Votes: 2
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Had to try Slax, found it a very nice and smooth running live distribution. Highly recommend this effort and being Debian is also something desirable.
Nothing negative, a delight to have it installed on my keychain USB. Traveled over the holidays and used it to show what Debian/Linux can do for potential converts.
Wish the Slax devs the best and welcome to Debian!
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Version: 9.3.0
Rating: 7
Date: 2017-12-26
Votes: 2
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Few years ago I discovered Slax 7 and run it on low end laptops mostly as a media player and light browsing. I was delighted to see this update to 9.3.0 and I tested it right away.
- as usual, the "installation" is a breeze
- fast boot, recognized my wireless with no issues, which was also the case with version 7
When I start using it I got bit confused....
- I could not find a "Settings" icon, maybe I need to use the "Run..." feature on the screen. The idea was that I had no sound when I tested Chromium on a local news website. Tried to use the dedicated buttons from laptop's keyboard and no response. The same behavior with the buttons for Display intensity. Tails has the proper firmware support for the physical adjustment buttons. I am quite sure that Slax 7 had it too, I will have to re-test.
- It looks like there are very few modules supplied with the original iso: Chromium, calculator, text editor, console. Doesn't seem to have a video player, picture viewer. Chromium was running fast, just no sound.
At this point I stopped. The laptop is a Lenovo E540 i5-4, 4Gb ram. I will need to look into more details, I loved what the developer has done with version 7 in only 200MB.
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Version: 9.2.1
Rating: 6
Date: 2017-11-30
Votes: 3
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This release focuses on cloud computing and on minimize disk space usage.
Pro:
- permits to create your own software package modules;
- minimal but with not ugly graphics;
- very low disk space consumption;
- very high portability (excluding on the hardware support aspect).
Cons:
- packed with too few firmware packages (hardware support is poor);
- support for boot on ext4 and NTFS file systems missing (despite of blog announcement);
- missing GUI file manager and GUI mount software or automount;
- missing EFI boot;
- missing complete how-to, wiki, forum or other ways to get information;
- one man distribution.
For low resource systems it should be better to go for other solutions.
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Version: 9.2.1
Rating: 8
Date: 2017-11-23
Votes: 2
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Works well on Ethernet connection on both newish (Circa 2015 Dell laptop) and old (circa 2010) Acer. Desires for next version: WiFi.
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Version: 9.2.1
Rating: 2
Date: 2017-11-18
Votes: 3
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Good:
Small
Easy to run from SBU
Terrible:
Lack of wifi out-of-box
No support
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Version: 9.2.1
Rating: 4
Date: 2017-11-17
Votes: 1
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It was hard to figure out how to make the ISO bootable.
The persist on disk feature didn't worked for me
Very dissapointed :(
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Version: 9.2.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-11-17
Votes: 7
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Pros:
Gives the user the power to add applications of their choice and with so much ease from the debian repositories.
Thus far, I added an additional browser, pdf viewer, image viewer, torrent app, file manager, office, media players, configured browsers and configured xlunch with the additional apps.
Runs nice live and with persistence on my hard drive.
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Version: 9.2.1
Rating: 9
Date: 2017-11-16
Votes: 4
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This new version is what I was always looking for. Minimalistic desktop with some powerfull packaging manager, apt was very good choice.
Pros:
small download
fluxbox theme is perfect
compositor enabled for transparency, shadows, nice effects
apt
Cons:
no wifi support
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Version: 7.0.8
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-11-04
Votes: 1
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Pros:
Powerful,
Small,
Runs great on my dell's - dimension 4700 (32bit) and optiplex gx520 (64bit),
I can easily load what modules I need and create my old own portable ISO,
Can boot easily from Grub either the ISO or a persistent environment.
Love it!
Cons:
Non
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Version: 7.0.8
Rating: 8
Date: 2017-10-09
Votes: 1
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This is probably the only Linux distribution I know that differs from the others. I am not into Linux those last years, but SLAX was always a very interesting distro thanks to that module approach. You can really have a nice little Linux system with exactly what you want. The only real problem is support of course. Modules are pretty old today and unfortunately there aren't updates.
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Version: 7.0.8
Rating: 7
Date: 2017-09-14
Votes: 0
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I found it easy to boot the system from and start the software and the wi-fi. Then I wanted to put it on the hard drive because I like it, and there is no easy way to do that.
Everything is easy except installing on the hard drive, because it is meant to be bootable from flash drive. But that's not what I want.
I want to revive an old computer by installing a new OS on the hard drive.
It has a kernel that supports old (pre-pae) processors though, and that's good and harder to find than it should be.
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Version: 7.0.8
Rating: 8
Date: 2017-05-20
Votes: 9
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Works easy and reliable but no proper forum or support, you have to find out for your self
But all in all good fun, I have been using it frt two years with no problems.
I run it from a live sd card with the write lock on and have no hard drive in my laptop .
So I,am not worried about doing something wrong, the operating system can not be damaged.
Just restart !
Perfect, just some support is missing
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Version: 7.0.8
Rating: 8
Date: 2017-03-13
Votes: 6
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A good distribution, Yet the modules becomes older and older with rare updates.
Very useful if You need "emergency" or "demo", but might be problematic if you need new software or anything that doesn't exists as module.
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