The live session ran in RAM, taking 170MB. The installer requires Gparted to be run first, if required, but it’s quick and simple. It also allows for a ‘frugal install’ into another operating systems’s partition.

The selection of software is both small and odd: a web-browser, Twitter and IRC clients, MTpaint, a sound player, and a sound editor. The repository has plenty of software, but the quality is dubious. I naturally looked for a video-player, only to find that Gnome-mplayer had a segmentation fault and VLC only played in black & white. On the positive side, the keyboard worked properly this time and the documentation has improved.

Slitaz is improving, but it really ought to come with a working video-player. If you have a small computer, AntiX, Bodhi, Lubuntu, Salix, ZevenOS, and Zorin are no larger than Slitaz and far more reliable.