A release candidate for SLAX 5.1.8 is ready for download and testing:"The first public release candidate of SLAX 5.1.8 is available for download." Some of the more interesting changes include: "Better handling of booting from USB devices; added NTFS-3g (aka ntfsmount) to fully support writing to NTFS partitions; added slaxsave.zip to SLAX CD. This archive contains pre-built loop filesystems (size 128MB, 256MB, 512MB and 1GB). Just unpack your desired file to root of some partition (you can use USB key as well) and SLAX will save changes to the file automatically." See the full changelog. Download: slax-5.1.8rc.iso (195MB, MD5).
ftp://ftp.linux.cz/pub/linux/linux-live.org/SLAX-5.x/testing/5.1.8rc/slax-5.1.8rc.iso