Two lightweight distros get updated after extended pauses
Slax, one of the lightest-weight Linux distros around, and Peppermint OS, a web-centric Debian remix, both put out new versions this week.
Slax is a very lightweight live-medium distro from Czech developer Tomáš Matějíček (Czech language). As The Reg mentioned at the time, earlier this year, Slax got its first update in a couple of years. That update, version 11.2, was based on Debian, as the last few Slax releases have been.
Now, Slax 15 is out. After nine years, Slax is returning to its Slackware roots. Slax 15 is based on the recently-released Slackware 15 – which itself is the first new Slackware release in six years. (Slax’s version numbers denote the version of the underlying OS.)
At just 242MB, Slax 15 is even smaller than Slax 11.4. However, because Slax 15 is 64-bit only, the Debian-based edition lives on as well. If you need a live graphical Linux OS, which will let you go online and install additional software, Slax is here for you. And because it’s tiny, it’s quick to download.
Peppermint OS is a more conventional distro: it’s intended to be installed and run from a hard disk.
