Reader supplied reviews for SliTaz GNU/Linux
Average rating
8.6 from 21 review(s)
Version: cooking
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-09-16
Votes: 2
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It's fantastic, I'm running slitaz on a 1GB 1.6GHz single core notebook, I have not seen yet a memory usage higher than 400 MB. Slitaz It's very fast and lightweight, providing a complete desktop experience, compared to his dimension. On the other hand, on tazpkg there is not so much choiche of package, only the essentials packages are provide, more thant enough for my usage of slitaz.
pros:
very very lightweight
out-of-the-box support for all the basics and preinstalled application and drivers
cons:
package not updated and limited choiche
a little bit of trouble in the installation process(64bit machine, coocking, not all the flavors worked after the installation, I needed to redownload the iso in the live process in order to install on the drive, maybe my foult)
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Version: cooking
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-04-20
Votes: 3
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SliTaz, well well, such an awesome little distro I wish had updated packages. I installed it on my 500GB HDD(overkill) with 8GB of ram(again overkill as a 32bit os, it uses only 4 at max.) It works like a charm, Openbox with LXDE gives you decent amount of desktop customization. Sure it won't be your cutting edge Linux distro but if you want to bring an old PC/Laptop back to life, it does it well.
Pros:
- Currently with a GUI, firefox with 1 tab opened and 1 instance of terminal its consuming 306MB of Ram. I've installed some packages already otherwise install on a HDD comes around 170MB.
- Out of the box Audio, ethernet, wlan support. Most of essential applications like a browser, text editor, few games, video/audio player, image viewer, pdf viewer are available.
- Its own package manager (command line) which is easy to use.
Cons:
- Outdated packages, like the Firefox version I get from default repository is 77, back from 2020. Gimp on official repository is at 2.8 iirc and Python 2.7
- Unable to run Netflix but Youtube works fine. This is because of outdated browser once again.
- Its own package manager (command line), yes, you won't find apt or pkg here so you will have to get used to it.
P.S. it shouldn't be hard to install unofficial packages as it comes with a package convertor (you will have to look into manual)
but iirc, they have to be x32 packages.
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Version: 5.0-rolling
Rating: 8
Date: 2022-03-08
Votes: 0
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x16, x32 and x64, x32 perferred - Designed by BSD to have you UP N RUNNING. Period.!
user: tux/root admin: toor .. Installable to Live-CD, USB, renamed from .ISO to .exe .. versitile.
- not your every day OS yet, it will help you Debug your system - should others not Work for you.
. I first ran into This back in 2016. A 53 meg Complete OS ( who ever designs things this small - LOL ) however, what I had totally forgotten was How Many 3.5" 1.44 Meg Floppies things used to take ( to make a Complete System back in the Windows 95 Days. )
. Surpirsingly, it worked just fine on my old Toshiba 486 - Hooked ever sense, - JW USAF Retired
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