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SliTaz is a free operating system, working completely in RAM and booting from removable media such as a cdrom or USB key. SliTaz is distributed as a LiveCD, and weighs less than 30MB. The system is quick and responsive, clean and robust. SliTaz is simple and intuitive, providing a lightweight, elegant desktop, detailed documentation and easy to use configuration tools. More information...
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The SliTaz website offers the main news of the project as well as news on the general activity of the subprojects on the laboratories. Both are available as a XML feed. The project also publishes a small monthly Newsletter.
- 4 November 2009 - New Cooking 20091104
SliTaz contributors are proud to announce the availability of a new Cooking ISO image based on over 2100 packages available in the SliTaz repository. The full system has been rebuilt with a new toolchain using Glibc 2.10.1 and GCC 4.4.1. This new Cooking uses the Linux kernel 2.6.30.6 with better hardware support and more built-in modules. The boot process has been further improved and the boot time is now faster than ever. Major packages found on the LiveCD such as Firefox have been updated to the current stable version. Home-made GUI boxes have been enhanced. Tazpkg packages manager supports new features including the conversion of deb/rpm/arch/slackware/ipk packages to Slitaz native format. The ISO image includes a new Openbox, GTK and icons theme for an elegant and more beautiful desktop. We have also removed ePDFview and switched to an online PDF viewer. This ISO image, however, is a bit bigger than 30 Mb (31.5) due to a bigger Kernel and many new dependencies.
We would also like to announce that the SliTaz project has a new support forum and a new community platform where everyone is welcome to share and to get involved! This new Cooking ISO is as always downloadable from the website download section: Get SliTaz Cooking
- 19 May 2009 - SliTaz at LinuxDays 2009 (Geneva)
During the LinuxDays show in Switzerland, the association will have a booth in the Association Village and a lecture will be given on Wednesday morning. The lecture is a case study with a corporate view based on using a "SliTaz Business Server" with a switchboard, integrated ERP, mail, LDAP, etc...
During the 3 days, the exhibition stand will be manned by members of the SliTaz project. The booth will offer demonstrations, including the creation of bootable USB keys (LiveUSB) and cdroms. The LinuxDays LiveCD will contain a selection of software designed for mobile use. The exhibition lounge will also have a forum and we will gladly answer any questions. So feel free to visit us! Information can be found on SliTaz Labs and the 2009.linuxdays.ch website.
- 16 April 2009 - SliTaz GNU/Linux 2.0 release
The SliTaz project are proud to announce the release of the new stable version of the distribution - SliTaz GNU/Linux 2.0. This new version is the result of one year of community work and provides an ultra lightweight, fast, scalable and stable operating system. SliTaz provides a complete graphical desktop in less than 30MB, applications required for a reliable and robust server environment and 1400 easily installable software packages in a few clicks of the mouse. This new version offers the automounting of partitions (NTFS compliant), wifi support, an office respecting the Freedesktop.org standards (drag and drop), network booting with gPXE and boot.slitaz.org, automatic detection of USB and PCI devices, a GUI package manager and control center, and various graphical tools to manage the distribution. The creation of USB media and bootable LiveCD flavors is also simplified and greatly improved. The core LiveCD includes Firefox 3.0.8, gFTP, LostIRC, ePDFView, mtPaint, Transmission, Osmo and Alsaplayer. The website documentation has been updated and you can read the release notes included in the distribution for more details on this stable version. SliTaz GNU/Linux 2.0 is now downloadable from the official mirrors of the project.
- 27 March 2009 - Labs and new mirrors
Continually seeking to improve the distribution and the services we offer, we are proud to announce the launch of SliTaz Labs. This platform makes it possible for contributors to collaborate more effectively, report bugs or request new features. The Labs provide each project with a wiki, a bug/issues tracker, news, etc. The laboratories provide an overview of activity on the project and track the release of regular updates. Register to participate and leave a comment. The project is also proud to announce 2 new mirrors: In Switzerland, hosted by SWITCHmirror (10 Gbits/s) and hosted in China by LupaWorld, thanks for supporting us. - 20 March 2009 - SliTaz at Solutionslinux 2009 (Paris)
The SliTaz project will be present at Solutionslinux 2009 in Paris. The stand will be hosted by 3 members of the team during the 3 day event and several other contributors will be present at some point. There you will have the opportunity to test various machines, EeePC for example, create a USB key (bring one with you) or to buy USB keys or bootable LiveCDs. You can also learn about the project and make contact with members of the association and the development team. Website of the fair: www.solutionslinux.fr, Village associations, SliTaz Stand. - 28 Feb 2009 - New Cooking 20090228
Getting ready for the next stable release! - The SliTaz project is proud to publish a new Cooking version with a lot of bug fixes, updates, improvements and new features. PCI/USB device auto-detection is now handled by Tazhw and firmware can be installed in one click through a graphical interface. Tazndis also has a simple GUI which lets you manage Windows drivers in a user friendly interface. The graphical packages manager is also much simpler to use and LiveUSB media such as a USB key can easily be created through a box. Netbox displays all interfaces and the new Wifibox can connect to wireless essids, manage favorite networks and configure card drivers manually or through Tazhw. The desktop has a GUI to enable or disable applications started with an Openbox session and Ivman with desktopkbox provides a lightweight notification system. You can download this new ISO image from one of the official mirrors of the website. - 31 Dec 2008 - Cooking 20081231 - Wifi and NTFS support
The SliTaz project is proud to announce a new Cooking version of the LiveCD. It allows you to utilize and test the work done in recent months, it contains many new features, bug fixes and several updates. The distribution now includes a tiny control center, easily managed WiFi via Netbox and tazndis, a lighter version of ndiswrapper to use non-free Windows network card drivers. Perl is now on the cdrom (with Lua removed). WiFi support is also accompanied by support for NTFS partitions, so mplayer had to be dropped from the default packages that make up the heart of the LiveCD. The Tazpkg manager has been greatly improved, it allows the preservation of configuration files, software to be updated according to the construction (build) date on the server, log files to be kept when the packages are actioned, and several fixes have been applied. Also improved are the boot scripts, and the LiveCD tool (Tazlito) is now more coherent. The Cooking repository now contains more than 1100 packages thanks to the SliTaz developers. You can download this new version from one of the official mirrors of the project. - 16 Jul 2008 - Cooking 20080716 - Web boot and MPlayer
SliTaz project members are proud to announce the availability of a new Cooking version, including many new features and bug fixes. This version provides the boot optionwebwhich lets you boot SliTaz from the internet using gPXE from boot.slitaz.org. This new unique service offers the possibility to use SliTaz in Live mode (all in RAM), using the Live options to store your data permanently and preconfigure the system. This new Cooking takes an extra 3 Mb so we can provide: a multimedia player with MPlayer, a notes manager with Notecase, a new version of Tazpkg package manager with md5sum support, XFS filesystem support built into the Kernel, a 'man' command and a few updates. This version requires at least 160 Mb to boot and run properly, we offer loram flavors for machines with less resources. Download SliTaz Cooking ISO. - 26 Jun 2008 - Cooking 20080626 with new Kernel
Summer time is here and also the new Cooking from the 26 June. A lot of work has been done to improve user experience. This Cooking version provides a new Kernel (2.6.25.5) with many new built-in drivers and modules, linux package was also split to have a fairly modular Kernel. Default user has changed totuxand the new optionuser=namelets you choose the default user name. Most of the Slitaz utils and tools have been improved: tazpkgbox provides some new commands for package management and bootfloppybox can be used in text mode, Netbox wifi and PPPoE support are now both working well and a new function called zeroconf is available. Most packages are up-to-date and Firefox 3.0 is part of the 25.2 Mb ISO. Cooking version can be downloaded from SliTaz mirror. Bugs can be reported on SliTaz Bug Tracking System: BTS - 18 May 2008 - Cooking 20080518 and LinuxDays.ch
SliTaz team is proud to announce the availability of a new Cooking LiveCD ISO image providing huge changes from the stable release. SliTaz now uses Openbox as its default Window Manager, desktop icons let you launch your favorite applications and manage files and dbus and hal will automatically mount removable media such as USB keys or Hard disks. Packages can now be managed through the graphical Packages Manager Tazpkgbox and mountbox and netbox are now much more usable and complete. The LiveCD now offers: lua, a desktop search engine with searchmonkey, system information with Hardinfo, task management with LXTasks and a password and clipboard manager. All the major packages have been updated - SliTaz now uses a new toolchain using the last glibc-2.7, GTK 2.12.9 and Firefox 3.0 RC1! You will now find 580 packages on the mirror including wireless support for the kernel and the necessary tools for a manual connection or one managed by SliTaz netbox. This new announced Cooking version can be downloaded from SliTaz mirror. Note: This version is going to be used at the LinuxDay.ch in Geneva Switzerland. - 22 Mar 2008 - SliTaz GNU/Linux 1.0 release
The SliTaz contributors team are proud to announce the publication of SliTaz GNU/Linux 1.0. This is the first stable release after 2 years of work. The system is distributed as a bootable LiveCD of 24.8 MB providing a fully featured desktop environment and a generous selection of multi-use applications. SliTaz GNU/Linux 1.0 uses the Linux Kernel 2.6.24.2, providing Firefox 2.0.0.12, Rsync 3.0.0, Gparted 0.3.5 and sound support with Alsa 1.0.16. The distribution lets you listen to music, surf the Web, edit a video studio and much more with the 448 available packages that can be installed with our very own package manager Tazpkg. The LiveCD lets you create a custom distro or a LiveUSB device in one single command. Security updates are provided by the project and popular packages like Firefox will also get upgraded for functionality. You can get SliTaz GNU/Linux 1.0 from the Web site download page. Read the Release Notes for more detailed information on this stable version. - 26 Feb 2008 - Updated Cooking ISO (20080225)
SliTaz project is proud to announce an updated version of the LiveCD with many bug fixes, new boot options, ACPI support and some package updates such as: Alsa 1.0.16, PHP 5.2.5, Htop 0.7, Firefox 2.0.0.12, Nano 2.0.7 and Sqlite 3.5.6. The optionhome=*now supports devices by UUID or label (Thanks Andrew) and thelaptopoption will automatically load ac and battery Kernel modules. The project also provides a new tool Tazusb, dedicated to LiveUSB media. Tazusb lets you create bootable USB media or write the current filesystem to the media in one single command. This version is ready for stable release, we are now writing Release Notes, preparing final artwork and a stable packages repository. You can try this updated Cooking by downloading the LiveCD ISO from SliTaz Web site. - 10 Jan 2008 - New Cooking ISO (20080107)
Paving the road to a stable release, we published a new Cooking ISO with many bug fixes and some new features. We added Asunder for audio CD ripping, Burnbox to burn ISO images, a new boot option to let you load Kernel modules at boot time (modprobe=modules) and the LiveCD now uses Xvesa from Xorg 7.2. All the SliTaz tools and utilities have been updated with new features. Tazpkg can repack packages from a running system, Tazlito can generate a LiveCD distribution flavor with a few commands and Tazwok can check for build dependencies when building a package from source. Please check downloads area to get a copy of SliTaz LiveCD. - 16 Dec 2007 - SliTaz English forum
The project is proud the announce the availability of an English forum providing help and support to users speaking English. Since the project is French based, we get a lot of feedback and requests from the English speaking community that we want to honour. The forum has its own domain forum.slitaz.org. The default interface is in French but settings can be changed when you login with your account. The crew is also working on the lack of English documentation. Help and assistance are greatly welcomed in the project. - 06 Dec 2007 - 2 days for a new ISO that boots twice faster!
2 days for a new ISO that boots twice faster. With the new lzma compression boot time has gone down, we worked hard these two days to improve boot speed and finally get SliTaz to boot twice as fast. So we uploaded a new LiveCD with a new Kernel patch for lzma and a bug fix for boot messages. Some tests gave us the LiveCD booting between 20 to 30 seconds on recent PCs and between 60 to 80 on older hardware. Download last Cooking. - 04 Dec 2007 - New Cooking with sound support and more options
SliTaz crew is proud to announce the availability of a new SliTaz Cooking release. It's finally not the expected stable release because we decided to add some more hardware support on the LiveCD, like sound and PCMCIA support. A new roadmap is on the stove and a stable release should be expected in March 2008, matching one year of the first SliTaz public release. This will also give us time to bring you a rock solid stable version with all these new features and more than 240 packages on the mirror. So, this new SliTaz release brings you Alsa with its mixer, Alsaplayer, mpg123, Gcolor2, pcmciautils, and a new Kernel. SliTaz also provides new options to use at boot time and isapnptools for very old hardware like IBM GL300 6272/6282 or P133/32M. All this new stuff fits in an ISO image of 22,4 Mb. The Simple Light Incredible... SliTaz (cooking) LiveCD can be obtained on SliTaz mirror. Download. Enjoy! - 06 Nov 2007 - Last Cooking before 1.0
SliTaz project is proud to announce the last cooking version before stable release. This new version provides PHP 5.2.5, Grsync, ISO Master 1.2, Busybox 1.7.2 and much more in a ISO image of 24,7 MB. We also prepared a new theme and wallpaper for JWM and installed a Tango icon. Download SliTaz (cooking) LiveCD for free from TuxFamily mirror. All feedback is really welcome, you can use the mailing list or directly send a mail to <devel at slitaz.org>. - 12 Oct 2007 - New Cooking and stabilisation
SliTaz Cooking ISO image provides a LiveCD of 24 Mb with Firefox 2.0.0.7, Linux kernel 2.6.22.9, Rsync, ISO Master 1.1, LightTPD 1.4.18, SQLite 3.5.1, a new theme and wallpaper. The packages manager was also upgraded with Tazwok and the slitaz-tools. Transmission 0.82 can now create Torrent files. SliTaz (cooking) LiveCD can be obtained for free from TuxFamily mirror. Download.
