 What Is Slax? |
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 Oct 2 2005, 09:01 PM
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Member [Level 2]  Group: Members Posts: 80 Joined: 20-July 05 Member No.: 9,653  |
Slax is a live-CD that can turn any PC into a Linux box without installing anything onto the hard-drive. It's a scaled down version of Slackware Linux. I tried it recently and am very impressed! Check it out at the Slax website.
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Oct 2 2005, 09:06 PM
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Desperately seeking "any key" to continue...  Group: Admin Posts: 3,489 Joined: 23-April 05 From: Trap17 storage box Member No.: 6,042 |
It seems like I'm always a half step behind. I was in the middle of working on Windows XP with the same concept as Slax. I am about 95% complete...Oh well, back to the drawing board.
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Oct 2 2005, 09:17 PM
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Member [Level 1] Group: Members Posts: 69 Joined: 6-August 05 Member No.: 10,375 |
YEAH, i was about to answer what slax was, but...
well, i'm using ubuntu right now. I turn away from live cds because I thought they would be slow, and not wrinting much to hard drive might means difficulties to save settings, preferences, etc. does mozilla comes with slax? How many megabytes was slax live-cd iso? thanks |
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Oct 3 2005, 02:18 AM
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Privileged Member Group: Members Posts: 516 Joined: 29-April 05 From: Canada Eh?!? Member No.: 6,408 |
QUOTE does mozilla comes with slax? One of the nice things about slax is that it is modulated, so you can "install" a whole bunch of diffrent products onto it before burning. As for the size, I don't remember but I do know I downloaded it while on dialup, it did take a long time, but I did accomplish it. 
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Oct 4 2005, 01:01 AM
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Member [Level 2] Group: Members Posts: 80 Joined: 20-July 05 Member No.: 9,653 |
QUOTE(tigen28 @ Oct 2 2005, 02:17 PM) does mozilla comes with slax? How many megabytes was slax live-cd iso?  Slax with GUI (standard edition) is about 177 MB ISO image that you can download and burn to CD. The standard edition doesn't have Mozilla or Firefox. It has KDE with Konqueror and the K word processor and spreadsheet. |
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Oct 5 2005, 03:56 AM
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Newbie [Level 2] Group: Members Posts: 36 Joined: 27-September 05 Member No.: 12,296 |
Wow it sounds interesting. Let me try this one. I hope i can use linux now.
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Oct 7 2005, 12:12 AM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 250 Joined: 4-October 05 Member No.: 12,524 |
whey would you want to turn your pc into linux? Linux is good and all, but its not that compatiable to most of the world using windows
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Oct 7 2005, 01:20 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 126 Joined: 10-September 05 Member No.: 11,702 |
And doesn't Knoppix do the same thing?
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Oct 7 2005, 01:33 AM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 425 Joined: 19-October 04 From: long island, ny Member No.: 1,831 |
thanks, I wanted one of these to carry around at school if you know what I mean...
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Oct 13 2005, 06:22 AM
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