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[goldinero]

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.

[BuffaloHelp]

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.

[tigen28]

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

[moldboy]

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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.

[goldinero]

tigen28, on Oct 2 2005, 02:17 PM, said:

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.

[bonniecool]

Wow it sounds interesting. Let me try this one. I hope i can use linux now.

[grnjd]

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

[selim]

And doesn't Knoppix do the same thing?

[psychiccyberfreak]

thanks, I wanted one of these to carry around at school if you know what I mean...

[amhso]

IMHO live cd's are just for saving computers, but since im an inexperienced linux user, i just reinstall linux, takes less than 30 minutes. but it's not a good idea, learn how to fix it.

back on topic, slackware is good, so slax would supposably good livecd as well.