Lightweight, portable and flexible operating system

alphaOS is a simple and minimalistic Linux distribution for the x86-64 architecture, built using Linux Live Kit set of scripts developed by Tomáš Matějíček, the developer of the popular Slax Linux distribution. But, unlike Slax, alphaOS is based on Arch Linux and uses pacman as the default package manager. This operating system features highly configurable and lightweight Openbox window manager. Modular by design, alphaOS makes it easy to add desired functionality.

Modern applications, based exclusively on the latest Gtk+3 toolkit

Standard iso image with size of just around 140 MB comes with: SpaceFM file manager, audio and video players, image and pdf viewers, wireless network manager... Also, it features several home-grown applications written in Vala and Gtk+: Emendo - Text editor with syntax highlighting; GMP Video - A GTK+ interface for mpv (a movie player based on MPlayer and mplayer2); Simple Radio - Streaming player for listening to online radios; Taeni - Multi-tabbed terminal emulator based on VTE, and more.

Easy to set up

Installation of this operating system to the hard disk or USB flash drive is very simple and constructed as so called "frugal installation", while GUI installer is provided in the Control Center. Installation CD is distributed as hybrid, which you can either burn to a CD or write to a drive using 'dd' command in Linux or programs like 'Win32 Disk Imager' in Windows.