[4][5][6][7] SliTaz stands for "Simple, Light, Incredible, Temporary Autonomous Zone" according to the boot screen.

The choice of the filesystem/bootloader used with slitaz is then of importance however; persistence being only available with ext2 and ext3 filesystems and the syslinux or extlinux boot loader.

For SliTaz 5, some major changes seem to be the swapping of systemd by BusyBox's init and udev, hence avoiding safety risks, and more implementation of Qt.

Dedoimedo reviewed SliTaz GNU/Linux 1.0. and commented:[18] Badgers are known for being rather spirited and fierce for their relatively small size.

That said, I do think "neutral" distributions should go for English, as it is the most popular computer language around.Dedoimedo also reviewed version 2.0.

Computers with less memory can boot it too; with the boot prompt cheat code of "slitaz-loram", computers with 64 MB of RAM are also supported, while those with as little as 16 MB of RAM will be able to run SliTaz as well - the cheat code is "slitaz-loram-cdrom".

It goes without saying that the performance of the machine with 16 MB of RAM won't be nearly as good as that of the 128 MB one, but it's still hard to believe that there is an operating system that can run in graphical mode on machines with so little memory.A 2022 review of SliTaz 5.0 in Full Circle magazine concluded:[21] SliTaz turned out to be a nice surprise in a small package.