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Re: SliTaz

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J.B. Wood wrote:

> Hello, all.  Is anyone using the subject Linux?  What advantage(s) do
> you find over the more widely used Linux distros?  SliTaz seems to
> require significantly less CPU and memory resources so there's probably
> some performance trade-offs here.  I can't comment at present on its
> support of Python, Perl, Ruby, Java, etc.
> 
> IMHO SliTaz has a nice GUI desktop, browser and terminal windows.  It
> also provides an easy-to-use updater (like yum and apt-get) to connect
> to its repos that seem to be regularly updated by the user community.
> Thanks for your time and comment.  Sincerely,

It is intended to be a minimalist distro, and has been around for about 5 
years.

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=SliTaz

I don't know how reliable it is.  With its community providing the updates, 
are you sure that they all go together well? It took Mageia (my distro) 
about a year to get UEFI working. That requires persistence.  If there is 
nobody willing to maintain a particular package, are there core developers 
to keep it up to date?  What about security patches and bugfixes?  Write 
down your requirements first.  Read some of the reviews bookmarked at the 
Distrowatch page.  One reviewer said that Release 3 wouldn't run on his 
aged computer, and Release 4 gave him problems.  It is now at Release 5.

For a small distro, I would be more confident with Puppy or one of its spin-
offs. But give it a go.  If you want a distro just for e-mail and the Web, 
it may fill your need, although it wouldn't fill mine.  Everyone has their 
own favourite.

Doug.

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