When a Linux LiveCD distribution is needed for a thumb drive, we generally turn to SLAX due to its exceptional reliability and variety of packages while keeping to a diminutive size. Earlier this morning SLAX 5.0.6 has finally been released. Continue on to visually see all of the improvements made in this version of SLAX. Some of the updates include KDE 3.4.1 and the Linux 2.6.12.2 kernel.
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