In the last hours a new version of Slax has been released, a Gnu / Linux distribution intended for computers with few resources. Slax was born as a lightweight option based on Slackware, but since version 9, Slax is based on Debian. A) Yes, Slax 9.5 is based on the latest version of Debian.
Slax tries to use a modular system that allows the user to need hardware with few resources. In addition, Slax 9.5 does not use heavy desktops for its operation, which means that the necessary equipment may be old. Slax 9.5 not only comes out with all the changes that have been made in Debian 9.5 but also some bugs that users have detected have been corrected like launching apps through fluxbox or running Chromium through Fluxbox.
Slax 9.5 does not have its own desktop but uses a combination of the Fluxbox window manager plus the PCmanFM file manager, as well as other tools that make the result a desktop with a necessary functionality for any type of user.
Slax 9.5 comes with the sale of a USB stick with the version to install on any computer. Not like others USB stick, the one that offers Slax comes with AES 256-bit encryption, with keyboard to insert the password and the possibility of acquiring it through bitcoins. Yes, unlike other stores that are created to maintain Gnu / Linux projects, this one is maintained with the bitcoin currency, an original way to keep the project active.
But this new Slax store does not make us have to pay to get Slax, far from it, like many other Gnu / Linux distributions. We can achieve this distribution through the Official Site of the project or using the distribution updater if we already have this distribution on our pc.