How To Install Slax Linux
Total 571 Today’s OS review is on a somewhat mini version of Slackware OS – a LiveCD OS that can be run directly from a USB stick, CD drive, or even RAM, without needing to install it on your PC’s hard drive. First, let’s begin with the facts. Is small Live Debian-based Linux distro that can be regarded as the Minimalist’s OS. It is Live because you can run it right from a USB stick and it works with a plethora of filesystems including NTFS, FAT, EXT (ext2,ext3,ext4), and btrfs. It was developed by Tomas Matejicek from the Czech Republic with a Monolithic kernel type to be fully customizable using Slackware packages and Slax modules – which, of course, are also open-source. All Slax versions prior to the release of version 3 were referred to as “ Slackware-Live“. Later on, Slax 5 came along with 5 different versions/models:.
Slax Standard – which was for the everyday user. Slax KillBill – this shipped with Wine, DOSBox and QEMU pre-installed. Slax Server – this shipped with several pre-configured servers and server applications including DNS, DHCP, Samba, HTTP, FTP, MySQL, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, and SSH. Slax Popcorn – a minimalistic edition with a focus on browsing and multimedia playback. It had Mozilla Firefox, Xfce desktop environment pre-installed. Slax Frodo – skeletal edition aimed at computers with small RAM as it had just a Command Line Interface. Then Slax 6 came as a single version with complete reliance on modules for extra features mostly based on LZMA compression.
Slax 7 came with support for 32 and 64-bit architecture as well as availability in 50+ languages, a lean KDE 4 version, and a revamped module system. At this juncture, users could now easily access community-developed modules from the Slax website’s homepage and even upload the new ones they contribute to. As at November 2017, the latest Slax version is 9 after not receiving any updates since its last in version 7. Slax 9 was rewritten based on the latest Debian code to rely on APT for adding packages and to ship with a terminal, web browser, calculator, and text editor.
It has come a long way indeed! Slax 9 also features Persistent Changes which means that while running Slax from a CD/DVD (or an alternative read-only media) will store all system customizations in memory and will be lost when the PC is shut down or rebooted, the modifications will be saved if you run the OS from a writable storage media. This way, you will be able to boot from flash to perform your daily tasks, save your work, and then continue your work on a completely different workstation without any hiccups because your changes are saved to the writable media. Its trustee window manager is Fluxbox which gives it the advantage of shipping with a host of a variety of productivity applications including Chromium, qalculate, its calculator, and leafpad as its text editor among other pre-installed applications. Features in Slax Linux.
Freeware: Slax Linux is free for anyone to download and use free of charge. Open Source: It is also open to project contributions and you can find its source code on. A comprehensive. Persistent changes.
A frequently updated for discussion, survey, and educational purposes. Multi-language support. Customizable with several customization tools including Conky and Screenlets. User Interface, Customizability & App Integrations Slax’s default desktop environment is Fluxbox. Never heard about it before? It is a Blackbox 0.61.1-based window manager that was built for X to be lightweight, memory friendly, swift in operation, and customizable.
It was built using C and released under the MIT-License. You can customize your User Interface by moving panels around, changing their sizes along with your system fonts size, color, and style. You can also set modern wallpapers and create fanciful widgets with a variety of the freely available customization tools in the market. A good example is using and.
Slax’s User Interface is also welcoming of virtually all modern applications – at least all the tested ones have been able to maintain a uniform look while delivering a reliable performance. Slax Linux Default Applications Slax Linux comes with a lot of system tools that are both GUI and CLI-based and while the CLI-based tools are also available in the Graphical User Interface, you will need to run them from the terminal window. A typical example is xterm. These apps include:.
Xterm – the default terminal. Chromium – the default browser. Leafpad – the default text editor. Qalculate – a powerful calculator. Scrot – the default screenshot capturing app. Feh – a simple image viewer and desktop background manager.
rsync -Remote file synchronization app. ddrescue – backup device date.
Slax Linux Logout Slax Linux Installation I can think of a number of advantages to using Slax. Educational purposes: users can learn how to compile applications thanks to its sandboxed model. Secure development: Contribute to compile, and test modules on Live boots without the risk of negatively affecting your main distro. Portability: Slax runs responsively from flash drives which makes it literally conveyable in your pocket – handy for people always on the move – and hackers (wink). Its installation media is available in both 32 and 64-bit architectures with a minimum of 128 MB of RAM for desktop and 512 MB of RAM to run a Web browser.
To top it all, installation is as easy as ABC, especially if you’re not new to using LiveCD. In a nutshell Slax Linux is a Linux distro that can be used for both educational and professional purposes. It is open-source, free, stable, customizable, memory friendly, mixable (with regards to using custom packages and Slax modules), and portable. When was the last time you tested Slax Linux Or have you ever tried it before? Many of the reviews I read over time have been from as far back as between 2008 and 2013 and it has greatly improved since then so maybe you should give it a test drive. I’m not sure of how well it will handle heavy-duty tasks like music production, video editing, multi-server management, and enterprise-grade software development. But whichever way things turn out, don’t forget to share your experience with us in the comments section below when you do try it out.
And feel free to keep your Linux apps, tools, themes, wallpapers, and distro suggestions coming; whether they are open-source or not.
Updated: A solution to fix failed to load vesamenu.c32 boot time error of Slax 7.0.3 - 7.0.8 is provided. Download VirtualBox and Slax Linux 7 ISO image.
How To Install Slax Linux On Usb
First, You need two software, and, then install VirtualBox. Create a virtual machine. Click New to create a new virtual machine, hereafter referred to as VM. Enter Name, Type and Version of the VM. Decide how many ram to be assigned to the VM, default 256MB is capable to run Slax, however, 512MB or more is recommended if your computer has more ram available. Create a new virtual hard drive, hereafter referred to as VHD. Use the default VDI VHD format.
Use Dynamically allocated size. Select the location to save the VDI file or use the default location and decide the size of the VHD, 8GB would be enough. Click Settings to change the configuration of the VM. You may want to change the Snapshots location.
Browse for the Slax ISO image and mount it. Click Start to power on the VM. Wait awhile and Slax will be up and ready. Partition virtual hard drive Once the Slax Linux is ready, open a terminal.
Input ' fdisk -l' and press Enter key to list the VHD available. You can see that one VHD /dev/sda is available. Input ' fdisk /dev/sda' and press Enter key to partition VHD. Don't input ' w' command while making changes to the partition as this will write the changes to the partition table, you can input ' q' and press Enter key anytime to quit fdisk without saving any changes. Input ' m' command to print the fdisk help page. You may use cfdisk, a more user friendly partition software, anyway, the principle is the same, if you are able to use fdisk, you are able to use cfdisk and vice versa. Input ' n' and press Enter key to create a new partition.
Input ' p' and press Enter key or just press Enter key to chose Primary partition type. Input ' 1' and press Enter key or just press Enter key to chose partition number 1. Press Enter key to chose the default start sector of the partition. Input ' +512M' and press Enter key to make a 512MB partition. Input ' t' and press Enter key then ' 82' and press Enter key to change the partition type to Swap partition. Input ' n' and press Enter key to create a new partition. Input ' p' and press Enter key or just press Enter key to chose Primary partition type.
Input ' 2' and press Enter key or just press Enter key to chose partition number 2. Press Enter key to chose the default start sector of the partition. Press Enter key to assign all the remaining space to this partition. Input ' w' and press Enter key to confirm, save the partition table and quit fdisk. If you input ' fdisk -l' and press Enter Key now, you can see that the VHD has two partitions, one linux swap partition (/dev/sda1) and one linux partition (/dev/sda2).
Format partitions Input ' mkswap /dev/sda1' to format the swap partition. Input ' swapon /dev/sda1' to activate the swap partition. You can see activated swaps stats by input ' swapon -s'. Input ' mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sda2' to format the linux partition. Copy Slax Linux to VHD Input ' mkdir /mnt/cdrom /mnt/sda2' to create two mount points.
Input ' mount /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom' to mount the CDRom to /mnt/cdrom mount point. Input ' mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2' to mount the linux partition to /mnt/sda2 mount point. Input ' cp -rv /mnt/cdrom/.
/mnt/sda2' to copy Slax Linux from CDRom to linux partition of VHD. Install bootloader Input ' sh /mnt/sda2/slax/boot/bootinst.sh' and press Enter key. Press Enter key after the bootloader is installed. The VM is now ready to boot from VHD. Open KDE menu, select Leave then Shut Down to power off the VM.
Don't shut down the VM yet if your are runing Slax 7.0.3 - 7.0.8, as an error of failed to load vesamenu.c32 is going to happen, follow the solution below to install the old version of syslinux to fix it. Solution for Slax 7.0.3 - 7.0.8 failed to load vesamenu.c32 boot error. This only apply to Slax 7.0.3 - 7.0.8 failed to load vesamenu.c32 boot time error, you don't have to do this if you are running 7.0.2 or below. If you are using the Slax default FireFox browser, the downloaded file is located on '/Downloads/' or '/mnt/sda2/slax/changes/root/Downloads/', extract the compressed syslinux file. Open a Terminal inside extlinux directory. Input './extlinux -install /mnt/sda2/slax/boot/' then press ENTER key to install the syslinux 4.06.
Shutdown the VM and empty the CD ISO image on VirtualBox then start the VM again, the failed to load vesamenu.c32 error should be fixed. Boot Slax Linux from VHD Back to VirtualBox, click Settings, Storage and make sure the CDRom is Empty, otherwise, unmount the CD ISO image. Click Start to power on Slax VM and boot directly from VHD. Sorry, I forgot: The log says: '/tmp/vbox.0/Ma kefile.include. Header:97:. Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux kernel.
Specify KERNDIR= and run Make again. Creating user for the Guest Additions. Creating udev rule for the Guest Additions kernel module.
/tmp/vbox.0/Makefile.include.header:97:. Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux kernel. Specify KERNDIR= and run Make again. Creating user for the Guest Additions. Creating udev rule for the Guest Additions kernel module.' I almost never leave remarks, however i did some searching and wound up here Syter - Install Slax Linux 7 in VirtualBox. And I do have some questions for you if you don't mind.
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