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These are the cooking ISOs on the road to SliTaz 5.1, built on 31 October 2026 and tested carefully. A release candidate will follow, then SliTaz 5.1 stable. Read the announcement and the release notes draft.

Every ISO is a complete live system that runs from RAM. Burn it to a CD or write it to a USB key, boot and SliTaz is ready; install it to disk or to a USB key from the live system when you like it. Not sure? Take core: 64-bit for any PC of the last fifteen years, 32-bit for older ones.

Choose your ISO

core

The LXTaz desktop

Our own installer, settings and package manager, no browser and no extra applications: build your system from there.

x86_64 77 MB · i486 54 MB 64-bit 32-bit

md5 64 md5 32

firefox

Ready to browse

core plus Firefox ESR and everyday applications: music, images, calculator, partition editor.

x86_64 163 MB · i486 135 MB 64-bit 32-bit

md5 64 md5 32

base

Text mode

No graphical server: servers, rescue, very old machines or the smallest start for your own system.

x86_64 29 MB · i486 18 MB 64-bit 32-bit

md5 64 md5 32

core-retro

For old hardware

The core desktop on the frozen Linux 3.16 kernel, for machines that a modern kernel no longer provides.

i486 47 MB 32-bit

md5

64-bit or 32-bit? The x86_64 ISOs boot on BIOS and UEFI machines. The i486 ISOs boot on BIOS (and on UEFI machines with the legacy mode, CSM). Firefox on i486 needs a CPU with SSE2 (Pentium 4, Athlon 64 or newer), that is why core-retro has no browser.

Write it to a USB key

All ISOs are hybrid: write the file as is to the whole key, not to a partition. Everything on the key is erased.

Linux: dd if=slitaz-core-x86_64-cooking.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M
Windows and macOS: Rufus (DD mode) or balenaEtcher
Check the download first: md5sum -c slitaz-core-x86_64-cooking.md5

Want to keep your files and settings? Boot the ISO and run the installer (tazinst) in frugal mode: it turns a USB key into a live SliTaz with a persistent /home. The installer also installs SliTaz to a hard disk, with GRUB for BIOS and UEFI.

First boot

The boot menu lets you pick your keyboard layout; the live system logs you in automatically. If a password is asked, the accounts are tux / tux and root / root. The desktop welcome window shows where to start and TazHelper can check your hardware and send us an anonymous report. Found a bug? Use filature-report from the desktop or tell us on the forum.

Help the project via a small donation or become an official sponsor.

SliTaz cryptocurrency wallet:

ETH: 0x3daA23ee83158A4bF9980e28ab02118d1319113F | View on etherscan.io

Other downloads

Flavors and older releases: build your own ISO, SliTaz 4.0 stable (2012)
SliTaz Raspberry Pi: ARM edition
Boot floppy: for old machines without CD or USB boot
All ISOs are on the mirror: x86_64, i486

Mirror

The primary mirror.slitaz.org is run by the SliTaz developers on our own server, the same one that builds every package.

Sources

The SliTaz tools (spk, tazinst, trame, reprise, metier, cookutils, LXTaz...) are hosted on hg.slitaz.org and every package is built from a receipt of the wok. Source tarballs of all packages: mirror.slitaz.org/sources/

Boot floppy

The boot floppy starts SliTaz on old PCs that cannot boot from CD-ROM, USB or the network: it loads the system from a CD, a USB key, the LAN via PXE or the Internet via iPXE.

Boot floppy (1.44 MB) - image [ md5 ]

Write it with dd if=floppy-grub4dos of=/dev/fd0 or rawrite on Windows. A set of floppy images also runs SliTaz on machines with only a floppy drive.