PorteuX is a Linux distro based on Slackware, inspired by Slax and Porteus and available to the public for free. Its main goal is to be super fast, small, portable, modular and immutable (if the user wants so).
It's already pre-configured for basic usage, including lightweight applications for each one of the 7 desktop environments available. No browser is included, but an app store is provided so you can download the most popular browsers, as well as Steam, VirtualBox, Nvidia drivers, office suite, multilib, messengers, emulators, etc.
Out of the box PorteuX can open basically any multimedia file. Hardware acceleration is enabled by default for machines with Intel, AMD or Nvidia cards (for Nvidia cards it's required to download Nvidia driver from the app store).
PorteuX is a modular system so it doesn't require a normal setup/installer. You can simply copy the ISO content to your media storage and run either porteux-installer-for-linux.run or porteux-installer-for-windows.exe (depending on which system you're running) to make the unit bootable. It's simple like that. Please avoid ISO installer applications such as Rufus or Etcher because by default they set the bootable unit to be read-only. More details in /boot/docs/install.txt file in the ISO.
In order to have PorteuX in a language different than English, download the multilanguage package and use PorteuX Language Switcher application to choose the desired language.
To download a Slackware package that is not present in PorteuX and convert it to .xzm module, run the command getpkg -m [packageName] (e.g getpkg -m gimp). It's recommended to move the module to porteux/modules folder to ensure it is automatically loaded after boot.
To build anything inside PorteuX, it's recommended to download and activate the 05-devel xzm module, which includes compilers, git, make, headers, etc. To build a driver (e.g. VirtualBox or any physical device), also download and activate 06-crippled_sources xzm module.
To run Windows applications inside PorteuX, in the app store you can find both Wine and Multilib Lite xzm modules. It's recommended to have these 2 modules in /porteux/optional and activate them only when needed.
In order to read Asian characters, please download and activate the module notoserifcjk-regular.xzm.
