Guides

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The SliTaz GNU/Linux quick start and complete guides by the community. You will find here specific guides to software, hardware or system configurations written by SliTaz users and contributors. These guides aim to provide concise and correct instructions. They explain a precise example of a solution and don’t expect to be a general how-to.

General

Installation, flavors and virtualization

Networking / LAN

Software

  • Recommended Software Packages — Applications to do almost anything on Slitaz
  • FlashInstall — How to install Adobe Flash Player
  • Super Fast Boot — Super fast boot time
  • Burn CD / DVD — Burn CD/DVD audio/video
  • Backup — How to make backups on CD / computer
  • Midori — Midori Tips and Tweaks
  • Panels and Launchers
  • Themes, Wallpaper, Icon sets
  • Useful Fonts
  • Sexy Desktop — Desktop apps and config
  • Conky — Lightweight system monitor on desktop
  • Audio Players
  • Video Players
  • Sound and Video Conversion — Sound/Video conversion, Audio creation and synthesis
  • Import photos from digital camera — using gphoto2
  • Dropbox
  • Tor — The Tor Install Guide without blah-blah
  • Conspy — Tiny session manager or shared console
  • Wicd — Lightweight network manager
  • Grub and Grub2
  • Alsaequal — Real-time adjustable equalizer plugin for ALSA
  • Xbindkeys — Launch shell commands with your keyboard or mouse (independent of your X window manager)
  • TazWikiss — wiki software using a web server

Hardware

  • Xorg/Xvesa — What to do if X is will not start or has the wrong resolution
  • Nvidia — Install the latest non-free Nvidia driver
  • ATI — Install the latest non-free catalyst ATI driver
  • Poulsbo — Poulsbo graphics installation
  • Webcam — How to get your webcam working
  • Printing — Howto print, CUPS install and configuration
  • Scanning
  • UDEV and HAL
  • Troubleshoot
  • Power Management — ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface)
  • CPU Frequency Scaling — CPU Frequency Scaling instructions
  • UEFI and SliTaz — HOWTO do a LiveUSBfrugal install — full install in Boot Mode UEFI
  • Microcode — Updating the processor microcode

Server setup and system Administration

  • Apache Webserver
  • Lighttpd Webserver
  • Dropbear, Openssh
  • Mailserver and Mailman
  • Database engine — SQLite and other DB management systems
  • Redmine Setup
  • Mercurial Installation
  • Drupal — Powerful CMS engine using PHP/MySQL
  • Media Streaming Server
  • File, Drive Encryption
  • Firewall
  • Router and Internet Gateway

Window Managers

Kernel and SliTaz Build system

  • CustomKernel — Build your own custom Linux Kernel
  • Linux packages — Explanation of various linux packages
  • Chroot — How to setup a chroot to cook packages
  • Tazwok tips — Tips for compiling with (the now deprecated) Tazwok
  • hal-removal — Documentation for removing hal in 5.0