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SLAX 6

SLAX LogoI’ve been a SLAX fan for a long time now and have had it installed on a USB memory stick since ages. Now SLAX version 6 release candidate 3 has been released and I’ve installed that one on my memory stick. I really like the big improvements Thomas has put in it. Except for one thing. I’m almost certain that Thomas is not a vi user. In previous versions of SLAX vi was also missing and I made a module for this no with the new module system I created a vi module again. If anybody wants it you can download it below, just put it in your modules directory and it gets loaded automatically.

If by accident Thomas is reading my post still have two suggestions for him for SLAX. Try to make use of the modularity of SLAX it’s one of the key features so don’t try to make a base system with not 8 modules but try make more to allow people to load certain modules and leave others out. And second make it so that not everything is run as root. As live Linux systems have a default user and you can elevate rights on a console with su.

But still in my opinion this is one of the best portable/live Linux distributions.;

The Tradition vi module for SLAX 6

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