[PLUG] Any comments on SLAX?

Richard Owlett rowlett at pcnetinc.com
Wed Oct 26 04:51:22 UTC 2011


C W wrote:
> Richard,
> Unfortunately, the Slax distro is no longer maintained.
> http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=slax

I did *NOT* want to hear that ;<

>
> But, the good news is that Porteus GNU/Linux takes over where Slax left
> off.  I have used the 32-bit version of Porteus.  It's small, extremely
> fast, works quite well, is much easier to use than Slackware proper&  I
> enjoy it.  Like Slax, it is meant to be used live, not installed.
>
> http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=porteus
>
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porteus_(operating_system)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porteus_%28operating_system%29>
>
> Cheers,
> Elcaset
>

But it does not seem to have some essential modules, 
gnuplot, SeaMonkey, Scilab/Scioslab, etc. Can the SLAX 
modules be used?





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