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5.0 SliTaz Release Notes (draft)

Can the developers and coders also add to these notes as they are probably the only ones fully aware of all the changes since 4.0. Thanks.

Welcome to SliTaz 5.0! Modern, secure, fast and flexible, the new SliTaz stable version is now out for Desktops and servers in production use.

  • Over ??? commits in the repos
  • 4400 packages in the packages database
  • Slitaz ported to the ARM architecture
  • Official Raspberry Pi flavors
  • New Slitaz-configs dialog tool
  • Frugal install tools added
  • Many tools updated and improved (tazbox, tazweb, ???)

Overview

SliTaz GNU/Linux is a free, open source community project. Version 5.0 was released on ??? after two years of hard work. Slitaz comprises of 4400 software packages easily installed via the package manager “Tazpkg”. The LiveCD can be fully configured to taste, to easily create a custom distribution specifically for tasks such as multimedia, graphics or development.

Slitaz can also be installed to your hard drive, or used with USB media - with “TazUSB” you are only a few simple commands away from a fully formatted and configured USB device, ready to boot and the Tazlito tool allows you to fully remaster your own your Live CD. SliTaz provides also a Cookutils suite of tools to build your own packages.

Technical support is provided to users via the mailing list and the official forum. The “Slitaz Handbook” is an instructive manual on how to use and finely configure the system. Slitaz can be updated easily via the graphic installer or by using the simple fast text installer.

Hardware

As well as most i486 or x86 architectures, SliTaz also supports arm v6 and work is on the stove for armv6hf (hard float) and armv7. A minimum of ??? is required to use the LiveCD and our Russians dolls system will automatically boot one of 4 systems, (currently core, gtk only, X windows and text) depending on the amount of memory available. The kernel supports a wide variety of wireless network, ???, ??? and sound drivers.

 
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