Slax is a fairly popular Linux distribution created and maintained by Tomas Matejicek. She was one of the first distributions created with base Slackware, but recently it appears to no longer be actively developed by its creator.
To be more precise, it has been about four years since we saw a large release of the Slax distribution.
The creator of the distribution was and remains a fan of the KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) philosophy but as mentioned above he was probably tired of being consistent in the development of the project.
But according to a post on the project blog, a new version of the distribution will be released soon.
But hold on:
This time the new distribution will not be based on Slackware but on Debian. Why; Let's see what Tomas Matejicek said:
"The main decision I had to make was to quit Slackware, or stop relying on Slackware."
"I'm sorry for Slack's friends. The reason is simple: laziness. To prepare Slax from Slackware, I have to fix the kernel with aufs, configure it, recompile etc etc. Then I have to compile software from different sources, deal with dependencies etc. ο.κ. I used to do it in the past, but not now. So I chose a different base for Slax and it is, get ready, hold on, hold on, Debian. ”
The reasons for this changeand other technical details of the upcoming version of Slax can found on the project blog.
