SliTaz Community

Yesterday, as a day-off project, I updated the look and feel of the SliTaz Next Cooker. I did it completely as I pleased, separately from the regular SliTaz Cooker.

SliTaz Next Cooker is a place where we moving to the upcoming SliTaz release, based on GCC-6.2.0, Glibc-2.24, Kernel-4.9 et al. All that things are the steps to a modern distro, but are incompatible with the current SliTaz Rolling packages, so they are developed and updated separately.

Features of SliTaz Next Cooker:

• Small screen / smartphone friendly. All (except the top header) is usable in the smartphone browser on-the-go as well as in desktop/laptop browser.
• New simplified look. Pre-formatted blocks was deprecated in the some places to look better on small screens. Buttons gets simple "frame" look. Main page isn't wide on the large screens, and not takes extra white space on the left and right edges on the small screens.
• Dynamic predicted search: enter the few letters of the package name to the search entry (on the top right) and see the package names, then select one. Try to enter "nano". Note, this feature not works in the SliTaz native web browsers TazWeb and Midori, because they based on ancient web engine that not supported the "dataset" tag. Worked well on a modern Firefox and Opera.
• Small and fast package page: only navigation and summary, logs moved to the separate place (button "logs")
• New client-side syntax highlighter that able to colorize receipts, patches, desktop files, Makefiles, SVG images (both with preview), etc.
• Colorized files list just like in your terminal. Some files that are text-based files and images you can open just in your web browser or right in your preferred text editor or image viewer.
• Markdown-driven descriptions.
• Highlight the current file displayed in the docs as well as in stuff for better navigation.
• Line numbering in the logs with links you can share.

2017-03-08

Hi all, we may miss communication but the Hg code repositories are buzzing! SliTaz is coded by a bunch of people working in their free time and everyone does their best. We know a stable version is wanted by the user community. Please bear with us :-)

2016-05-30

This project is no longer alive

I am very happy to officially announce the new PiClass project! Our Raspberry Pi Travelling Classroom. The project goal is to provide a travelling computer lab with some robotics components using a Raspberry Pi.

The classroom can support half a class, ie from 10 to 12 students and can travel between school buildings in a suitcase on wheels! All the Raspberry Pi are powered by SliTaz ARM and the workshops are supervised by teachers and passionate SliTaz developers.

To start the first PiClass for kids in Switzerland we created an online fundraising. The material will be used for school lessons, workshops and open Jams.

By making a donation, you enable children to receive free computer and robotics workshops and you will help SliTaz developers getting some passionate work!

2014-08-09

Bonjour à tous,

Ce week-end du 17 et 18 mai nous avons participé à une opération libre dans Vosges organisée par nos amis de chez Framasoft. Le carde était magnifique et l'ambiance très sympa. Il y a eu du monde tout au long de la manifestation, avec des personnes qui venaient découvrir Linux et le libre et des presonnea qui connaissaient déjà le monde du libre. Nous avons aussi eu l'occasion de rencontrer des utilisateurs de SliTaz, ce qui fait toujours chaud au coeur!

J'espère que l'opération libre aura aussi lieu l'année prochaine. C'est aussi pour moi l'occasion de passer quelques jours avec Pascal Bellard, de coder ensemble et parler de SliTaz. Nous en avons profité pour préparer et publier un SliTaz 5.0 RC2.

En tant qu'enseignant c'était un grand plaisir de partager avec la communauté Framasoft et de pouvoir faire des démos de ce que je fais avec les élèves en informatique et robotique. Vous trouverez plus d'info au sujet de l'opération libre sur le Framablog

2014-05-19

These last days we fixes some SliTaz 5.0-RC1 issues and we are getting ready for 5.0. We also worked on boards and leds integration in SliTaz Raspberry Pi and coded a small utility to help manage RPi devices from a standard SliTaz desktop:

The box is provided by the package 'slitaz-arm-rpi' and it will add a menu entry in "System Tools". You can use TazPanel or the cmdline to install the package:

# tazpkg -gi slitaz-arm-rpi

On the leds side we have coded a tool named 'pileds' and packaged Adafruit with PiClass code examples. The goal is to provide a built-in tool to easily use leds from the cmdline and to have code to start writing you own Python scripts for the 7-segment LED Backpack and the 8x8 Matrix from Adafruit. SliTaz PiBook was also updated with a mini-guide about leds usage

We are not associated with Adafruit, but it'a the DIY hardware we actually use. More support for more boards such as Piface will follow.

2014-05-07