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GoblinX mini is the ultraportable edition of the Brazilian distro GoblinX (standard and premium are the other editions). It’s a LiveCD based on Slackware with Xfce in the desktop.

The mini latest version, 2.5, was released today, about three weeks after the last release candidate and, most appropriately, in Halloween.

The release notice offers no info on the kernel version, system requirements nor other usual bits one usually expects to find along with announcements, but given the name, the .iso images’ size (about 160 MB), the fact that this is based on Slackware and the presence of the Xfce desktop environment, I think it’s kind of safe to assume it can run with relatively low amounts of RAM memory and in old (but not too old processors… say, Pentium III).

Here’s the webpage with download links to GloblinX mini 2.5 as well as the GoblinX standard 2.00 which was released earlier these year, on April 30th.

GoblinX is not a terribly famous Linux distro but I like small distros –you can download them fast, burn them quickly and have a bunch of them sitting around in order to perform one or two special tricks and also have a look to many Linux kernel versions without the compilation, configuration and update hassle. So, I’ll have a look at this one and maybe report back.