A new version of Slax, a lightweight Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux and FluxBox window manager has been released for testing.
AUFS is a must - Slax Linux
Thanks everybody for your suggestions for improvements, I really appreciate them. I've added connman as a network manager and scite as a text editor, and things start to look pretty decent now.
I realized that overlayfs is completely unsuitable for a distro such as Slax. It does not provide the necessary functionality at all, it is not possible to work with modules on the fly. So the only way to go forward is to recompile Linux Kernel and add AUFS from sources, which is exactly what I did for this 2nd release candidate.
As like before, you can provide feedback and report bugs, preferably through the slax-users Google group.
AUFS is a must - Slax Linux