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Slax


Last Update: 2026-02-08 01:17 UTC

Slax is a minimalist desktop live CD based on Slackware Linux. It boots into a simple desktop using the Fluxbox window manager which offers a small collection of applications, including the Chromium web browser, a text editor and a calculator. Prior to version 9.x, Slax was a Slackware-based live CD featuring the KDE desktop and a wide collection of pre-installed software for daily use together with useful recovery tools for system administrators. After releasing version 11.x with a Debian base, the project returned to a Slackware base for version 15.0.0.

Average visitor rating: 6.6/10 from 12 review(s).

Slax Summary
Distribution Slax
Home Page https://www.slax.org/
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Recent Related News and Releases
  Releases announcements with download links and checksums:
 • 2023-10-05: Distribution Releases: Slax 15.0.2, 12.1.0
 • 2023-02-02: Distribution Releases: Slax 15.0.1, 11.6.0
 • 2022-02-22: Distribution Release: Slax 11.2.0
 • 2022-02-09: Development Release: Slax 11.2.0 RC1
 • 2018-11-15: Distribution Release: Slax 9.6.0
 • 2018-07-23: Distribution Release: Slax 9.5.0
 • 2018-03-26: Distribution Release: Slax 9.4.0
 • 2017-12-24: Distribution Release: Slax 9.3.0
 • 2017-11-16: Distribution Release: Slax 9.2.1
 • 2013-03-15: Distribution Release: Slax 7.0.6
 • 2013-01-15: Distribution Release: Slax 7.0.4
 • 2013-01-03: Distribution Release: Slax 7.0.3
 • More Slax releases...

  Headlines:
 • 2023-01-02 Slax getting a new persistent storage filesystem
 • 2022-07-18 Slax experiments with Slackware-based branch
 • 2018-11-20 Slax gets series of minor updates
 • 2018-03-21 Slax to be preinstalled on USB thumb drives
 • 2017-12-12 Slax adding wifi support
 • 2017-11-07 Slax considers systemd
 • 2017-11-03 Slax returning
 • More Slax headlines...

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  • Colour scheme: green text = latest stable version, red text = development or beta version. The function determining beta versions is not 100% reliable due to a wide variety of versioning schemes.
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Feature 15.0.4 12.2.0 11.6.0 9.11.0 7.0.8 6.1.2 5.1.8.1 5.0.8 4.2.0 4.1.4 3.0.25 2.9.0.22 Feature
Release Date 2023-10-09 2023-10-09 2023-02-02 2019-09-14 2013-03-16 2009-08-04 2006-11-25 2006-03-23 2004-10-22 2004-08-30 2004-01-06 2003-09-22 Release Date
End Of Life                         End Of Life
Price (US$) Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Price (US$)
Image Size (MB) 400-500 400-500 200-300 200-300 200-300               Image Size (MB)
Free Download ISO ISO ISO ISO ISO ISO ISO ISO ISO ISO ISO ISO Free Download
Installation Text mode Text mode Text mode Text mode Text mode Text mode -- -- -- -- -- -- Installation
Default Desktop Fluxbox Fluxbox Fluxbox Fluxbox KDE KDE KDE KDE KDE KDE KDE KDE Default Desktop
Default Browser                         Default Browser
Package Format txz deb deb deb txz LZM tgz tgz tgz tgz tgz tgz Package Format
Package Management                         Package Management
Release Model Fixed Fixed Fixed Fixed Fixed Fixed Fixed Fixed Fixed Fixed Fixed Fixed Release Model
Office Suite -- -- -- -- KOffice KOffice KOffice KOffice KOffice KOffice KOffice KOffice Office Suite
Processor Architecture i686, x86_64 i686, x86_64 i686, x86_64 i686, x86_64 i486, x86_64 i386 i386 i386 i386 i386 i386 i386 Processor Architecture
Init Software SysV systemd systemd systemd SysV SysV SysV SysV SysV SysV SysV SysV Init Software
Journaled File Systems         ext3, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS ext3, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS -- -- -- -- -- -- Journaled File Systems
Multilingual en en en en en               Multilingual
Full Package List 15.0.4 12.2.0 11.6.0 9.11.0   6.1.2   5.0.8 4.2.0 4.1.4 3.0.25 2.9.0.22 Full Package List

Full Package List:   Slax 5.0.8
  Number of packages: 212 (download as TXT)
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  •  aaa_base-10.2.0-noarch-2
  •  aaa_elflibs-10.2.0-i486-3
  •  aalib-1.4rc5-i386-1
  •  acpid-1.0.4-i486-2
  •  alsa-driver-1.0.11rc3-i486-1
  •  alsa-lib-1.0.11rc3-i486-1
  •  alsa-oss-1.0.11rc3-i486-1
  •  alsa-utils-1.0.11rc2-i486-1
  •  amp-0.7.6-i386-1
  •  arts-1.4.2-i486-1
  •  ash-0.4.0-i386-1
  •  aspell-0.60.2-i486-1
  •  atk-1.9.1-i486-1
  •  audiofile-0.2.6-i486-1
  •  autofs-3.1.7-i386-1
  •  bash-3.0-i486-4
  •  bc-1.06-i386-2
  •  bin-10.2-i486-1
  •  bind-9.3.1-i486-1
  •  bpe-2.01.00-i486-1
  •  bzip2-1.0.3-i486-2
  •  cdparanoia-IIIalpha9.8-i386-1
  •  cdrdao-1.1.9-i486-1
  •  cdrtools-2.01-i486-1
  •  checkinstall-1.5.3-i486-2
  •  coreutils-5.2.1-i486-1
  •  cpio-2.5-i386-1
  •  ctorrent-1.3.2-i386-1
  •  cups-1.1.23-i486-1
  •  cxxlibs-5.0.7-i486-1
  •  cyrus-sasl-2.1.21-i486-1
  •  dcron-2.3.3-i486-5
  •  dhcpcd-1.3.22pl4-i486-2
  •  diffutils-2.8.1-i386-1
  •  dvd+rw-tools-5.21.4.10.8-i486-1
  •  e2fsprogs-1.38-i486-2
  •  elvis-2.2_0-i486-2
  •  esound-0.2.36-i486-1
  •  etc-5.1-noarch-10
  •  expat-1.95.8-i486-1
  •  findutils-4.1.7-i386-1
  •  flac-1.1.2-i486-2
  •  floppy-5.4-i386-3
  •  fluxbox-0.9.13-i386-1
  •  fribidi-0.10.5-i486-1
  •  gawk-3.1.5-i486-1
  •  gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-i486-1
  •  gettext-0.14.3-i486-1
  •  getty-ps-2.1.0b-i486-1
  •  glib-1.2.10-i386-2
  •  glib2-2.6.6-i486-1
  •  glibc-solibs-2.3.6-i486-1
  •  glibc-zoneinfo-2.3.6-noarch-1
  •  glut-3.7-i486-1
  •  gmp-4.1.4-i486-2
  •  gpart-0.1h-i386-1
  •  gpm-1.19.6-i486-6
  •  grep-2.5-i386-2
  •  groff-1.19.1-i486-3
  •  gtk+-1.2.10-i386-3
  •  gtk+2-2.6.10-i486-1
  •  gzip-1.3.3-i386-2
  •  hdparm-6.1-i486-1
  •  hotplug-2004_09_23-noarch-5
  •  id3lib-3.8.3-i486-1
  •  imlib-1.9.15-i486-1
  •  infozip-5.52-i486-1
  •  iproute2-2.6.11_050330-i486-2
  •  iptables-1.3.3-i486-1
  •  iptraf-2.7.0-i386-1
  •  isapnptools-1.26-i386-1
  •  jfsutils-1.1.8-i486-1
  •  joe-3.3-i486-1
  •  jove-4.16.0.61-i386-1
  •  k3b-0.12.8-i386-1
  •  kbd-1.12-i486-2
  •  kdebase-3.5.0-i486-1
  •  kdegames-3.5.0-i486-1
  •  kdegraphics-3.5.0-i486-1
  •  kdelibs-3.5.0-i486-1
  •  kdemultimedia-3.5.0-i486-1
  •  kdenetwork-3.5.0-i486-1
  •  kdepim-3.5.0-i486-1
  •  kdeutils-3.5.0-i486-1
  •  kdewebdev-3.5.0-i486-1
  •  knemo-0.3.1-i486-1
  •  koffice-1.4.1-i486-1
  •  kplayer-0.5.3-i486-2
  •  lame-3.96.1-i486-1
  •  lcms-1.14-i486-1
  •  less-382-i486-1
  •  lesstif-0.94.4-i486-1
  •  libao-0.8.6-i486-1
  •  libart_lgpl-2.3.17-i486-1
  •  libexif-0.6.12-i486-2
  •  libglade-2.4.2-i486-1
  •  libgsf-1.12.1-i486-1
  •  libid3tag-0.15.1b-i486-1
  •  libidn-0.5.17-i486-1
  •  libieee1284-0.2.10-i486-1
  •  libjpeg-6b-i386-4
  •  libmad-0.15.1b-i486-1
  •  libmng-1.0.5-i486-1
  •  libmusicbrainz-2.1.1-i386-1
  •  libogg-1.1.2-i486-1
  •  libpng-1.2.8-i486-1
  •  librsvg-2.8.1-i486-1
  •  libtermcap-1.2.3-i486-6
  •  libtiff-3.7.3-i486-1
  •  libtunepimp-0.3.0-i386-1
  •  libungif-4.1.3-i486-1
  •  libusb-0.1.8-i486-1
  •  libvorbis-1.1.1-i486-1
  •  libwmf-0.2.8.3-i486-1
  •  libwpd-0.8.2-i486-1
  •  libxml2-2.6.22-i486-1
  •  libxslt-1.1.15-i486-1
  •  lilo-22.5.9-i486-2
  •  linux-kernel-2.6.16-i486-1
  •  linux-kernel-modules-2.6.16-i486-1
  •  logrotate-3.6.8-i486-1
  •  lsof-4.72-i486-1
  •  lvm-1.0.8-i486-1
  •  lynx-2.8.5rel.5-i486-1
  •  m4-1.4.2-i486-1
  •  madwifi-for2.6.16-i486-1
  •  man-1.5p-i486-1
  •  man-pages-1.64-noarch-1
  •  mc-4.6.1-i486-1
  •  mdadm-2.1-i486-1
  •  mhash-0.9.2-i486-1
  •  module-init-tools-3.1-i486-1
  •  most-4.9.5-i486-1
  •  mpeg_lib-1.3.1-i386-2
  •  mpg321-0.2.10-i486-2
  •  MPlayer-1.0pre7-noarch-3
  •  mt-st-0.7-i386-1
  •  mutt-1.4.2.1i-i486-1
  •  nc-1.10-i386-1
  •  ncurses-5.4-i486-2
  •  ndiswrapper-for2.6.16-i486-1
  •  netscape-plugins-7.2-i486-2
  •  netwatch-1.0a-i386-1
  •  nmap-3.93-i486-1
  •  normalize-0.7.6-i486-1
  •  openssh-4.2p1-i486-1
  •  openssl-0.9.7g-i486-2
  •  openssl-solibs-0.9.7g-i486-2
  •  pango-1.10.4-i486-1
  •  parted-1.6.22-i486-1
  •  pciutils-2.1.11-i486-6
  •  pcmcia-cs-3.2.8-i486-1
  •  pcre-6.4-i486-1
  •  perl-5.8.7-i486-1
  •  pidentd-3.0.18-i486-1
  •  pkgtools-10.2.0-i486-5
  •  popt-1.7-i386-1
  •  portmap-5.0-i486-1
  •  ppp-2.4.4b1-i486-1
  •  procps-3.2.5-i486-1
  •  qiv-2.0-i386-1
  •  qt-3.3.4-i486-2
  •  rdesktop-1.4.0-i386-1
  •  rdist-6.1.5-i386-1
  •  reiserfsprogs-3.6.19-i486-1
  •  rexima-1.4-i486-1
  •  rp-pppoe-3.6-i486-1
  •  rpm-4.2.1-i486-3
  •  rsync-2.6.6-i486-1
  •  rzip-2.0-i486-2
  •  samba-stripped-3.0.14a-i486-1
  •  screen-4.0.2-i486-1
  •  sdl-1.2.9-i486-1
  •  sed-4.0.9-i486-2
  •  seejpeg-1.10-i386-1
  •  shadow-4.0.3-i486-11
  •  slax-kde-artwork-noarch-13
  •  slocate-2.7-i486-3
  •  smartmontools-5.33-i486-1
  •  sox-12.17.8-i486-1
  •  startup-notification-0.8-i486-1
  •  strace-4.5.4-i486-1
  •  sudo-1.6.8p9-i486-1
  •  svgalib-1.4.3-i386-2
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