I did not realise SliTaz is still going so strong. It's an old fave from my early days with Linux. I tried #SliTaz briefly again a few days ago, and just now seen it mentioned in https://opensource.com/article/19/6/linux-distros-to-try "5 tiny Linux distros to try before you die" while I was looking for a NuTyX tarball... and besides being pleasantly surprised by SliTaz now being rolling:

SliTaz 5.0 Rolling release (weekly) - 06 Apr 2025
SliTaz is now a rolling distro with 2 branches We provide a stable version and a cooking (development) version. Stable will get small refinements and security updates. As usual the Cooking version brings you the latest improvements made by SliTaz developers. - 16 March 2018
Website news archives - 2007-2025

I also saw in that article, one (among many a) feature that contribute to the explanation of why it's still going so strong:

The good news is that the tazpkg command can convert from several packaging formats, including:

Debian packages (.deb, .udeb)
RPM packages (.rpm)
Slackware packages (.tgz)
Puppy packages (.sfs, .pet)
NuTyX packages (.cards.tar.xz)
Arch and Alpine Linux packages (.apk, .pkg.tar.gz, .pkg.tar.xz)
OpenWrt packages (.ipk, .opk)
Paldo packages (.tar.bz2)
Void packages (.xbps)
Tiny Core packages (.tce, .tcel, .tcem, .tcz)

SliTaz is a #lovely piece of kit. Really glad it's going so strong.

http://arm.slitaz.org/rpi/ <- they have rpi arm too btw.
http://mirror.slitaz.org/iso/rolling/slitaz-rolling.iso <- and 32bit ! 😮 😀 good distro for #Ancientware #OldComputers 😀
http://mirror.slitaz.org/iso/rolling/slitaz-rolling-core64.iso <- and a 64bit of course.

#distro #distros #tinydistros #foss #packageconversion #packagemanager #tazpkg #taz

PS, I remember there's also #tazlito ... like I mentioned... many a feature to keep SliTaz in, and ahead, of the game. It's so tiny, so fast, so clean. Always a joy, in my experience. But then... I've never driven SliTaz as daily-driver. ... But I am honestly considering it for a #DistroChallenge since reading that article, even before I started typing this post, so enthused as I am for SliTaz. ... For context, I'm already over a dozen years deep into bedrocklinux, where I have all the comforts of all my favourite features from each and any of the main distros I install (typically Gentoo, Devuan, Void and Artix, my solid 4 strata regulars, at least)... And SliTaz turns my head. Not just to add it as a strata (as I'm seeking how I'll best want to get #NuTyX imported), but as itself. Raw riding the metal, not hijacked, not a vm, not a container, not even just as a usb, but on the mmcblk0p1. Okies... Ima stahp this ramble... got the gush for SliTaz.

Anyways, just sayin, you don't have to pick just one distro. ;)

... But also, you can. ... And I'm tempted... Distro-Challenge... 2 years living daily-driving SliTaz...