SliTaz GNU/Linux

Reader supplied reviews for SliTaz GNU/Linux Average rating 7.1 from 9 review(s) Please select a rating in the range of 1-10. Please write at least a few sentences about the distribution while limiting your review to 4080 characters. What are your thoughts on SliTaz GNU/Linux? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- cooking4.03.02.01.0 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: cooking Rating: 10 Date: 2025-07-07 Votes: 2 Long time ago I used SliTaz-3.0 on my very ancient home pc, as on my Lifebook I installed Slitaz-4.0 and parallel the cooking version. It was not everything working "out-of-the-box". But with the helpful documentation and the great support from the SliTaz forum nearly everything could be managed. And after this, I really loved to work and play with this amazing OS. After my Lifebook got broken and I was travelling a lot, There was no time and no opportunity anymore to stay with the SliTaz team. Several times I had a look onto the SliTaz website and gladly saw, there is still activity, even without getting new releases. Now after returning back home, I lloked closer again to this really nice and impressive distro. And I am really impressed of the help of the members. At the moment I work with a convertible with the poor and cheap baytrail board. Originally there was WIN 8.1 on it. Then I swiched to WIN10. But as the support ends in october, I tried several Linux distros and just a view ones recognize all of the hardware of this convertible. I had to figure out, how to boot the 32bit uefi in combination with the 64bit processor. And allof this could be managed with the assistence of the kind and friendly SliTaz team. Tere is new work on a "current" version of SliTaz with the Linux-5.10.238 kernel. This is, what I try now and how I'm impressed, how it works on this convertible. It's an amazing speed, very less battery consumption, no bloatware. The size of the iso is Just around 100 Mb, with everything I need for the beginning. What more should I expect out of this? I'm really amazed and happy to get back to this great distro. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: cooking Rating: 10 Date: 2025-02-18 Votes: 1 I cant belive what a quick system it is, how compatible it is, how much software is bundled into such a tiny package. I love this distro, and every few years when I come back to it I am so glad to see it is still developed. It's one of linux's gems for sure, For me for getting old computers back online, doing a first diagnostic of them, and for rescuing data I have found some very useful scenarios for SliTaz. It is also more than capable of being run as a daily driver, and it's quite funny to watch a 15 year old celeron PC out-doing a brand new i3 running windows and all its invasive bloatware. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: cooking Rating: 1 Date: 2023-08-12 Votes: 24 SliTaz used to be a great little distro, up to version 4. Mobile broadband was a pain to set up, but it was doable, and once set up, it just worked. I used Slitaz for quite some time on an EeePC 4G, when my desktop machine died, and it was also good for data recovery from unbootable systems, even if it was lacking in software in comparison to the big distros. Version 5 was supposed to be the ever up to date 'cooking' rolling release, but it seems that it was put on a back burner on the lowest heat setting possible. It's rolling so slowly, it's gathering moss. Everything in SliTaz is so out of date as to be a security risk. I don't really see how SliTaz can be truly considered to be active, when it does not actually roll with the freely available updates and source code. It's a shame, because SliTaz has a very good GUI, and is a very easy system to use. But use it at great risk to your data security and integrity. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 9 reader reviews of SliTaz GNU/Linux...