SliTaz 5.0 Openbox

About SliTaz

SliTaz is an independent micro-distribution, assembled from its own package base rather than another distro's, that fits a working graphical desktop into an image measured in tens of megabytes. It runs comfortably from RAM, boots quickly on very old or very small machines, and uses its own lightweight package manager, tazpkg, with a companion toolchain for building packages and remastering the system. The default environment is a frugal Openbox-based desktop with a small set of applications chosen for size, backed by a surprising number of extra packages in the repositories. Development alternates between stable releases and a continuously updated cooking branch. The project has francophone roots and a small, long-running community. SliTaz makes sense when the machine is tiny, the bandwidth is scarce, or the goal is studying minimal system design. An OpenFactory browser VM spares you hunting for period hardware just to try it.

What happens when you press Try now

The button opens the OpenFactory console in a new tab and boots a fresh SliTaz virtual machine from OpenFactory's verified source media. The session renders directly in the browser, so there is nothing to download and nothing to install on your computer.

Each visit gets its own machine with a fresh overlay over an immutable base image. Files, settings, and desktop changes behave normally inside the session and are discarded when it ends, so every visitor starts from the same clean SliTaz 5.0 Openbox.

How Openbox behaves in a browser VM

Openbox is a stacking window manager for X11 with a small footprint and a right-click root menu. Many lightweight distributions pair it with a panel rather than a full desktop suite.

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