SLAX 是一个快速而美观的Linux操作系统，它可以在一张CD-ROM小光盘上(3.14"光盘或者USB均可)直接运行，而并不需要安装，制作出来的CD运行是基于Slackware Linux 的发行版本，使用统一文件系统，运行的所有数据都保存在RAM中，这款软件比较适合打算初步认识Linux系统和一些低配置的朋友们.

SLAX CD contains:
· Linux Kernel 2.4.28-pre4 with SATA support
· X.org 6.8.1
· KDE 3.3.1
· KOffice 1.3.3
· KDE games
· MPlayer 1.0pre5 with KPlayer
· kopete ICQ/AIM/Y!/IRC
· midnight commander
· rdesktop (rscp in KDE)
· hotplug support
· cdrtools
· k3b burning GUI for KDE
· mutt email client
· wget
· and much more...

Changes in version Slax 6.0.0:
Linux Live scripts version 6 are the most innovative scripts available.AuFS provides better stability compared to old unionfs， squashfs withLZMA support provides great compression ratio and amazing decompressionspeed. What's new compared to old Linux Live scripts v 5:
- aufs is used instead of unionfs， brings great stability and features
- squashfs is patched with LZMA compression， so compressed filesystems are up to 30% smaller

- no need to patch your distro's startup scripts in order to remove remount of root rw
- no need for udev as the devices are created during live startup
- CD tree is simplified， you may call your distro as you like， eg. slax， knoppix， etc.
- support for booting from USB and PCMCIA/CardBus device
- support for writing persistent changes even to VFAT (thanks to posixovl)
- added a script to create bootable disk (including USB) in Linux and Windows