Slax 6, the latest version of the modern, small and fast Slackware-based distro Slax, was released yesterday.Slax participated in the development of sqlzma patches, where the code implements LZMA - 7-zip compression - into squashfs filesystem. Squashfs now supports bigger block sizes than before. These two enhancements transform Slax 6 in one of the best compressed Linux distributions.
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