NimbleX is a small but versatile operating system which is able to boot in various fashion, like from a small 8 cm CD but also from flash memory (USB pens, Mp3 players, ...), from hard drives and even from the network. Because it runs entirely from a CD, USB or network it doesn't require installation or even a hard drive.

NimbleX is based on Slackware with the use of linux-live scripts and is has a lot of this distribution advantages. One of them is the availability of thousands of free software that can be found in the form of packages. The beauty of it is that even if is small it has a beautiful graphical interface and also a lot of built in software for browsing the internet, writing documents, listening to music, playing movies and many more. You even have basic server functionality.

Some of the most obvious things are:

• Access data on other computers without knowing the pass.
• Surf the Internet, download files using various protocols
• Chat with friends using a very nice IM application
• Play movies because most of the codecs are supported
• Play music either in the graphical interface and the CLI
• Make NimbleX always save you data very easily
• Use the built-in BlueTooth support to transfer files
• Use a pretty good office suite - KOffice 1.6.3
• Get organized with a very powerful app. - Kontact !
• Debug other operating systems with NimbleX
• Back-up data easily using various methods.
• Make NimbleX boot on other computers over the LAN
• Play some of the various KDE Games
• Install software over the Internet using GSlapt
• Control remotely Windows machines with rdesktop
• Browse Windows networks with no complications
• Read PDF documents with the built-in software
• NimbleX can be made to boot form anything bootable
• NimbleX can be very fast if you boot it from HDD / USB
• You can use several graphical interfaces (KDE, IceWM, Fluxbox)
• The command line has the most common commands so...
• Extend NimbleX easily by adding new modules to it.