Latest Slax Release Needs More Time in the Oven

“Slax, a Slackware-based modular Linux distribution, released
version 6.0 last month. This release brings a new tar install
format along with a new donation request, but also includes some
noticeable bugs.

“One of the new interesting developments with Slax since the 5.x
releases is the availability of a 190MB tar image as well as the
more traditional ISO install file. The tar file is for use
primarily on USB media, but you can use it to perform a hard drive
install as well. Installing the archive onto a memory stick was
easy. I used a 512MB pen drive with one partition formatted with
the VFAT filesystem. I mounted and navigated to the partition and
untarred the Slax-6.0.0.tar…”

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