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Slax is Linux operating system which is based on Slackware Linux distribution and Unification file system. It is Linux Live CD Operating System which fits on a CDRom. It doesn’t need to be installed and one can directly run it from CD or USB. This wonderful OS was developed by Tomas Matejicek using Linux Live Scripts. Slax makes read-only file system to behave as a writable one, saving all changes to memory. One can easily use this operating system by booting the computers with this LiveCD. After this loading of kernel image (vmlinuz) takes place and a 4 MB ramdisk is created in the computer’s RAM. The root disk image (initrd.gz) is then unpacked into it and mounted as a root file system. Large directories (like /usr) are mounted directly from the CDROM.

Till date, the five editions of Slax OS have been developed and sixth edition is currently on the way to development. There are two specialised editions and two minimalistic editions (SLAX Popcorn and SLAX Frodo). Different preconfigured server applications like DNS, DHCP, SAMBA, HTTP, FTP, MySQL, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, SSH and many others are loaded in this OS. In this LiveCD, the Users can also add Slackware packages to customize the distribution. In this OS, the users can modify distributions based on SLAX directly or using the MySLAX Creator program with modules from the official Slax website or other sources. SLAX uses Squashfs file system and UnionFS to create its module structure. In the fifth version of Slax .mo file type is used which is changed to .lxm in version 6 with the move to the newer AuFS. Slax also allows user changes to be saved to an online repository on the SLAX server and this option is activated using cheatcodes or boot options during boot time. The users can save and restore system settings from an active session and also apply the previously saved system settings to the current session.

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