If you are new to Linux, I think Slax is a good way to get started. It is how I started out. The community is very helpful, and friendly, most of the time. Slax includes KDE, and Fluxbox is the standard version. It boots up quite quickly, and also has the ability to be copied to RAM, which speeds it up even more.

There are other Slax versions, and Popcorn is a really great one, which doesn't include KDE, but XFCE. It is made for websurfing and multimedia.

If you like Slackware, Slax is the live distro for you!

I was suprised when I first booted this live-cd and it took me straight to the command line, even though this is the exact behavior of Slackware. I was even more suprised when I typed startx. It booted into a GUI that looked planned out a polished. If I had a GUI like this I wouldn't mind changing my startup scripts to boot to runlevel 4! (5 for other distros)

One of the unique features of this distro is webconfig. It's sort of like Knoppix's persistant home, only over the web. You boot Slax with you password and all your configuration gets saved to the Slax server, and can be restored again over the web!

If you want to try Slackware, and want something more than ZipSlack, Slax is the live-cd distro for you!

I hate it
it sucks

Looking for replacements for my mandriva le 2005 I took a look at this livecd and I am really happy I did. This boots from cd about 2 times quicker into kde than mandriva does into icewm!

All hardware was recognized, internet working on all boxes I tried it on and you have everything you need. I was surprised by kde also, the version I got with mandriva must be a bit outdated, because here it was quick and the programs were improved and not buggy at all.

I am looking for something simple and quick like this, when its possible to install it I will. This is what I give the xp users to show what they're missing. I want to buy a usb stick dedicated to slax so I could use it one my friends computer.

I have used the Popcorn and KillBill versions of this LiveCD. It is now my favourite liveCD.

Just like Slackware everything is detected and works - XWindows at 1024x768, my cable internet. Unlike Slackware the mouse wheel is configured in XWindows and you start with read access to VFAT partitions.

A good trick is to run Slax and copy the relevent sections of xorg.conf and fstab to your Slackware installation, if you have difficulty setting them in Slackware.

A very good live-distro!
All hardware i tested it on was detected.
The module-system makes it very easy to add any sofware you want, make an iso and burn your own custom live-CD. With about 500 mb available on a cd-rom you have plenty of room to do so.
I use it with the hardware-lister (lshw) to do a quick scan of an unknown PC.

My favorite live distro of all time, I started on Slax, and I still run Slax today. (On one of my computers at least) I have the server version with nano and grub modules, and find it has everything I need (for programming and web design work that I do on my cheep (old) laptop). I recommend the hard drive install, even though the creator doesn't, especially for computers with small hard drives (say 2 gigs, like my old compaq) but also have enough ram to run it. (you need 36 ram to run without KDE, and I forget how much with KDE running, but I believe its a little over 200 megs)

I build my LFS (Linux From Scratch) system off this without any problems. And find it useful for many occasions. Its a simple, semi-lightweight system, which I completely adore.

I like Slax as my handy distro for years, I also installed it on my usb flashdisk. Although it is modular, I find that all I need is already packaged.

It detects my modem, my wireless, and--I love it--my soundcard.

Now, that my laptop got more RAM, I like run it in RAM, it is much much faster.

I'm a new user for linux, can u guy suggest some good edition for me?