Conclusion

Overall, for what I typically use my computer for I survived, and quite nicely too. Would I suggest that someone ditch their installed distro and just use a live CD? I'm not sure. Live CDs have a few definite advantages: you can carry your OS in your pocket (like the slogan says), particularly with an 8cm CD, so you always have a consistent desktop no matter what computer you are working on and the software is very stable as it is running in a controlled environment. On the slight downside you are usually restricted to the choice of software included on the CD (yes I know some distros like DamnSmallLinux allow you to download extra packages). Overall though, the software included with Slax should allow you to do almost everything you need to do and you should certainly be able to get your work done with it. My only reservation about the "pocket OS' concept is that you do need to store all your data somewhere. The two real choices are a USB key, but you would need a bigger one than my meager 128MB very shortly or carry a CD-RW. I didnt try the CD-RW idea but theoretically there is no reason at all why it shouldn't work. So that was my experience of a week with just a like CD, what about Slax?

I really liked Slax. It looks great, its own icons are really nice, KDE is obviously very good too and it works perfectly. The software included is everything I need, and as I said, it fits all this in to 185mb and certain other OS's need 4GB to achieve the same. Slax is a very polished distro and I give it tops marks and would highly recommend anyone to give it a go.

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