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, ???)

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.

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.

The kernel currently stands at 3.2.53 and uses Binutils 2.23.1, GCC 4.6.3, Glibc 2.14.1. Cookutils now boasts two new tools: 'cross' which gives you the ability to cross compile i?86, arm and x86_64 packages and 'cooklinux' which generates custom kernels from scratch.

SliTaz GNU/Linux is distributed as a bootable LiveCD allowing you to graphically install to the hard drive and retain the use of your previous system including all settings, applications, documents, etc. The core LiveCD contains 4 different operating systems and will automatically select the one that your hardware will support. You can also select images from the menu and hit [TAB] to edit any options. The menu also provides a command line, help options, languages and the ability to webboot. The ISO image uses a 'hybrid' system which can also be directly copied (dd) onto a USB stick without formatting. SliTaz also provides the tools to remaster your LiveCD both graphically and from a command line. The SliTaz community provides many custom and preset flavors which can be downloaded from our mirrors.

Installation can be fully automated with the Tazinst tool found in the SliTaz panel, this allows you to install SliTaz from a Live-CD, a LiveUSB key, a downloaded ISO image, or directly from the web. Frugal tools have been added to 5.0 to assist in a minimal HDD install and Tazinst also supports command line installation.

The SliTaz port to the ARM processing architecture consists of a text mode base system and a lightweight desktop powered by JWM and the Fox toolkit. Both can be installed to a SD card by using the instructions found in the download directory. SliTaz RPi comes with its own tools including 'spk' - a tiny package manager, 'slitaz-config' - a system configuration menu and the 'tazberry' tool for RPi specific configurations. Boot scripts have been optimized for SliTaz and you will be prompted for a root password, keymap and default user on first power on. SliTaz RPi can also keep up to date with system and kernel updates and has its own Pi Book

More information can be found on the website