distribution release , built on the foundations of the Slackware and Salix projects, and fully compatible with the repositories offered in them. A key feature of Slackel is the use of the constantly updated Slackware-Current branch. The graphical environment is based on the Openbox window manager. The size of the bootable image, capable of running in Live mode, (32 and 64 bit). The distribution can be used on systems with 512 MB of RAM.
Key innovations:
- A graphical interface instonusb has been added for installing Live images of Slackel and Salix on a USB drive, including the ability to create an encrypted file that retains modified state during use;
- A graphical utility multibootusb has been added to create Live USB editions of Slackel and Salix, allowing the selection of one of several available live images at boot time;
- The Slackel Live Installer (sli) has been introduced, providing a graphical interface for installing the distribution and configuring basic settings such as language, keyboard layout, time zone, and NTP server for time synchronization.
- The ability to save modified and added data during the session into an encrypted file or to encrypt the /home partition has been added. Encryption modes are enabled by passing options changes=persistent and home=persistent;
- A new parameter ‘medialabel="USB_LABEL_NAME"‘ has been added, allowing the specification of the boot image label when booting from a Live USB of multiple OSs;
- Full multimedia support has been added in the Live environment without the need for separate codec installation.
Source: opennet.ru
