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8.7 from 26 review(s)
Version: 15.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-09-07
Votes: 2
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I was a long term Slackware user. Later Zenwalk, then Salix user.
Salix is still doing its best to keep the standard we used to.
The selection of applications is still great. The additional packages available are somewhat limited, but still acceptable.
However, the 5+ years release cycle of Slackware as a base of Salix is unacceptable in this overclocked world. All of the Salix ecosystem will be obsoleted with the speed of light.
Therefore changes are needed.
Salix should choose an other big and more recent distro (maybe devuan or debian) as a base.
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Version: 15.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-07-20
Votes: 3
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Recently I have purchased a secondhand laptop, Compaq CQ 58. I want to use this laptop for work at home. Mailing, text-editing, watching movies. The laptop is more than ten years old, and I tried a number of distro's on it. But al them made the laptop extremely slow. Except Salix. Salix is a real good choice for people to use at work as well as al home. All the necessary programs ( Libreoffice, Gimp, mail, firefox, cups, etc.) are installed by default. And it is extremely light on system resources. Salix is based on Slackware, so there is absolutely no desktop oriented distro more stable than Salix. I wish there could more publicity give to this Operating System, because it very suitable to use in offices or at home. It deserves a lot more credit than it receives right now. (Maybe a review at Distrowatch could help in this regard). As a con could be taken that the installation is not graphical like many other distributions today. The install-program is dialog-based in the terminal. For me, there is no problem with this but maybe for other users it could be a little scary. There is also a live version with a very barbones graphical installation method.
A great distro, deserving much more appreciation. Kudo's to the developers!
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Version: 15.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-07-17
Votes: 3
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Awesome Slackware-based distribution that makes life easier for the average lazy Slacker. Especially with Slapt-get (same as Apt/Apt-get/Aptitude/DPKG in Debian/Devuan). Dependency correction is a feature, and it prevents the user from installing so much cruft
I got a "full" Xfce desktop with my favorite GTK/Qt programs (including SlackBuilds and packages converted with DEB2TGZ), and it barely uses more than 1,000 packages. On my Dell laptop, uses barely 500 MB on boot, and it stays at 600-700 MB after a few days have passed.
If I had some constructive criticisms, they would be to replace Firefox with a lighter/privacy-oriented alternative (e.g. SeaMonkey, Pale Moon) and make Flatpaks completely optional (I had to remove that bloat after install).
The SLI (Salix Live Installer) is very thoroughly straight-forward and more user-friendly than even the overrated Calamares. On top of that, you have the choice of using LILO as your bootloader.
If you prefer something more UNIX-like and as close to the *BSDs as possible, but Slackware is too overwhelming for you, then Salix or even Slackel would be the two respins of it to give a shot. You won't regret it.
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Version: 15.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-07-01
Votes: 0
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Equipment used
Dell Latitude Laptop model 3340 about 7yrs old
Intel Celeron 2957u dual core processor.
Solid State Drive 120Gb
RAM 8Gb
I used the Salix64bit version 15.0 live operating system as it gave me the full 8Gb RAM usage.
(Note that the Salix version 15.0 live operating system was limited to 4Gb RAM usage)
The one page installer worked well. It required me to pay special attention in preparing the hard drive.
I used GParted to prepare the hard drive partition, labelling and boot flags.
Then I followed the instructions (especially the fine print!) and the installation went smoothly.
I used GSlapt to install my Audacious, Bluetooth and VLC programs.
Chrome was installed using the Flatpack program. Everything went well.
I even installed Balena Etcher as a .rpm package and got it to run from the binary link!
My computer worked very well and I liked its basic use and clean appearance.
My computer is now working better and faster than those new laptops!
Using Salix requires an advanced user to program it.
However it can be set up in such a way to make it easy for a beginner to use!
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Version: 15.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-06-12
Votes: 11
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it's just perfect: performance is great, it's stable, it's solid, it's nice out of the box. It is a round distribution in all respects. It has easily become my everyday distribution, many thanks to the developers, I hope they continue in this vein in the future. If I don't get something in the store I install it from slackbuilds and that's it. To put them in perspective, it's as easy to use as a Linux Mint with the performance of OpenSUSE. You will not regret installing this magnificent linux distribution, it is excellent in every aspect
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Version: 15.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-06-05
Votes: 0
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Equipment
2006 Dell 620 business laptop 1gb RAM 80gb HDD Intel Centrino Duo processor.
Completely wiped drive and installed the Salix 15.0 distro on it.
All apps worked out of the box.
The computer worked very quickly. I installed the latest Firefox ESR on it.
Also the latest Balena Etcher flashing/cloning utility. I got the rpm file and extracted it out.
After that I sent the balena etcher to a link to the desktop and got it to work.
The GSlapt package manager has a lot of familiar packages and it is quite easy to install apps and
form upgrades on the system.
Advantages of the Salix 15.0 distro is that it enables you to have a good second computer to perform office or light work.
Video was good as long as you don't push the browser to hard. Boot up time is 1 min and shut down time about 30 secs.
Disadvantage it only access up to 4gb of RAM.
Big advantage I got a 16yr old computer to perform like the new ones in the store.
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Version: 15.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-05-06
Votes: 5
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I have slackware installed on a notebook with no problems.
I wanted to install it on another PC, a 32-bit netbook, but having to install everything by hand and configure it is too much for me. A lot of time is wasted.
Looking for a slackware based distro I found Salix os and I am really surprised.
The distribution is easy to install, and is less tedious than slackware.
The package system is very good and resolves dependencies.
I haven't had any problems so far and it works fast.
What was not in the repositories I installed from slackbuilds.
I like that it comes with Xfce that looks great and needs almost no configuration to get it just the way you want.
From sclackware there are many more things to configure.
It is incredible how fast Salix is, on this netbook I had tried Debian, Devuan, Peppermint, none runs as fast as Salix.
The ram memory in idle marks 350mb.
Salix comes with graphical tools to manage the packages, and also the services. I've been using linux for years and love using the terminal, but I find these tools to be a great addition.
I also liked Salix's page. It has a very good guide to start using the system.
I congratulate those who are behind Salix.
I think slackware is unique in the linux world and has many advantages over others.
Having said that I think salix is a breath of fresh air.
Something that slackware itself doesn't have, unless you invest your time.
Highly recommended!
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Version: 15.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-03-23
Votes: 4
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I got tired of Debian and Arch based distros, and decided to try a Slackware based one To me Salix has everything I need and nothing I don't need. It's simple to install, especially the live version which I am using now. It gets very few updates which is one thing I really love about it, it's very stable, and in my opinion, a very complete distro. I haven't used anything but Salix 15.0 since it was released last September, and don't intend to. It uses Flathub to install programs not found in GSlapt, and they work seamlessly, the kernel is an LTS kernel, Firefox is up to date, and ESR. Salix is my favorite distro now, and I will no use no other.
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Version: 15.0
Rating: 2
Date: 2023-03-18
Votes: 6
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Pretty distro, but that's the only "pro". The Slackware packaging method is a mess with all the constant bloat of not separating lib packages from daemons or main ones. For example, despite being on xfce4 and xorg, I could not get my programs to work without wayland installed. On Debian, you just need the lib files of wayland for xfce4 to work. That ensures dependencies are met without having the actual display server, too. Also, if you want to use alsamixer, make sure pulseaudio is installed. Very confusing.
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Version: 15.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-02-07
Votes: 4
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I am very pleased with the Salix15 distro.Presently it is my goto desktop.
I am using it with a Dell 3646 Inspiron desktop computer which is about 9 years old.
It has a 500Gb hard drive (used) Intel Celeron processor and 8Gb installed RAM.
Advantages:
Very clean looking and easy to read graphical user interface (Xfce) It looks almost like the Cinnamon desktop.
Out of the box ready to go packages are already installed.
The already included GSlapt package manager is easy to install and remove Slackware packages.
Fast boot up and shut down times for an old hard drive. The operating system ran quickly and smoothly.
Disadvantages:
Setting up and using Salix15 requires that you must an intermediate to advanced Linux user.
The installation process takes one page and it requires that you follow the instructions.
Although I had 8Gb of RAM installed, I could only access up to 4Gb of RAM on this 64bit distro.
For some reason, I was not able to install Chromium or Chrome browser.
Conclusion: I am very pleased with this distro and I rate it a 10 out of 10.
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Version: 14.2.1
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-11-30
Votes: 5
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I generally do not write reviews of Linux Distros, but feel that I have a point of view and information of use here. Having used many differing forms (Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, Manjaro, PCLinuxOS, Gentoo, Mx-Linux, EasyOS and ClearLinux among others and even a few BSD forms) I can say that Salix has been a very pleasant surprise. Using Elilo is different from Grub2, but really is generally of no concern in the difference for any routine usage.
Installation was facile and so long as the network was identified early, even a WiFi update could be done very easily to get to a working start. My display was detected properly without any problem. Printer use under CUPS-gutenprint was fine. Even Bluetooth function was accomplished readily.
Startup is extremely quick and perhaps the only limitation is the lack of many options for a background. I can live with the small selection available.
Slackware is certainly a valid type of system for running a distro and Salix has made the business of handling dependencies much less burdensome. Using the Terminal under XFCE, a very serviceable Desktop, or using the GUI both work virtually flawlessly so far as I can tell. The system has excellent ability to add many applications through its slapt-get and slapt-src utilities in the former and through the Gslapt GUI and this is well supplemented by the incorporation of Flathub for flatpack use. Beyond that , I have more or less nearly any other package which I can make readily.
Many seeking to take the ordinary .gz file can merely take that file and translate it to .tgz which I do easily, though there are conversion programs for this alteration which one can use for the purpose. Once a .tgz file is created, that file can be managed by using the spkg utility in the terminal under the sudo or root status and this will create a Salix compatible file with installation from the use.
I was most pleased to find that there was not even a need to go through the process of upgrading to Salix15. On noting the release of the new release, at least in the case of my installation, I found that all of the steps for the upgrade had been managed the prior day by using the Upgrade in the Gslapt GUI and there was complete management of all the various steps otherwise to be found in the upgrade.
I have been able to make all of my hardware other than scanning work easily. An Epson Scanner could be added through Flathub and most others could be managed with paid proprietary software available through Flathub as well, though this is not essential to my needs for my unit.
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Version: 15.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-11-11
Votes: 14
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Salix is a very well made Linux distribution. It is very fast and easy to use. It has an excellent and fast package manager and an excellent set of tools. It comes with the essential software to get started. It has good language support and a nice responsive desktop environment. The installation is not the most user friendly but it is quite fast and relatively easy to use. Salix can give old computers a new life as it consumes little memory and resources. It is a very stable distribution with a community that is very helpful and friendly. I highly recommend it
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Version: 15.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-11-04
Votes: 3
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It is an old love, I was waiting for its comeback.
So, this is a way to install an easier slackware especially on old hardware, but not only.
Nothing changed too much, but the world of Slackware is aimed to be stable along the years: modern software but with the ancient way.
If you need or want something working, fun this is a good solution.
One remark? Gslapt is fine, but it should have a "category" way to choose the software packages to install (by the way you can install other packages not present on it using the slackware ways, but this could be outside the ideal range for Salix).
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Version: 15.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-10-26
Votes: 7
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Excellent 'slap it in and run it' distribution!!
I found it to be very clean and stable as a live distro and when I installed it on a Acer 2-core laptop with 4GB RAM it ran flawlessly with zero hiccups and very speedily. Updates are pretty seamless considering that I have been a diehard apt user.
The only faults I could find (and an extremely nit-picky one) was that I could not find a package for gkrellm in this distro and that using bluetooth takes a couple more clicks than Mint for example.
I love it!
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Version: 15.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-10-20
Votes: 2
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It is an old love, I was waiting for its comeback.
So, this is a way to install an easier slackware especially on old hardware, but not only.
Nothing changed too much, but the world of Slackware is aimed to be stable along the years: modern software but with the ancient way.
If you need or want something working, fun this is a good solution.
One remark? Gslapt is fine, but it should have a "category" way to choose the software packages to install (by the way you can install other packages not present on it using the slackware ways, but this could be outside the ideal range for Salix).
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Version: 15.0
Rating: 6
Date: 2022-09-24
Votes: 0
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Salix 15 is for a Slackware-based distro supposedly easy to install but still their installer looks way too obsolete and keyboard controls during installation would surely feel cumbersome for newcomers and (spoiled) veterans. Hey Salix folks, SUSE had a better installer back in 2001! "Optimized for desktop" means graphical installer in 2022. Of course if you pay increased attention you're going to pull it with a little bit of effort. Installation defaults are generally reasonable. Installer asks you to set a relatively stronger password than usual but this is a justifiable requirement. You boot into an XFCE with an attractive theme and a nice desktop background to greet you. Thankfully, Salix uses whisker menu. Desktop feels very responsive. The default selection of software (if you go for the "full" installation as I did) is a mixed-bag. A full-fledged LibreOffice installation ticks a box. However, we get Firefox-ESR for some reason. Is Salix in the league of LTS / stable distros? Why not the main-branch version of Firefox? Nothing wrong with the ESR. Works fine on Debian. An odd choice all the same. Claws-Mail as default email client. An obscure application that automatically cast a shadow of doubt over Salix and their team. What they thought? Yeah, GSlapt software manager can remedy that. It's a very tidy software manager in the vein of Synaptic. Asunder CD ripper...! One of the best but too retro, no? Who's installing this by default on their distro today? In addition to these obscurities, we find some crappy vanilla XFCE apps, almost every other XFCE distro drops. Default software selection leaves much to be desired. I know I can install my software of choice but I can install Slackware instead as well. Salix is lightweight, well-performing distro which lacks the polish and cohesion of other XFCE offerings. Slackware die-hards stick with the real thing, Slackware itself. Systemd haters? They will find a much more complete system in MX. Looking for an easy XFCE? Mint, Lite, Zorin is the way to go. Salix feels like a "family" project, with some amusing retro and subjective touches.
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Version: 15.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-09-20
Votes: 8
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I am very impressed with Salix 15.0,it is easy enough to install and runs very smoothly on my elderly HP/Compaq 6910p.I wanted something light and reliable to use on this old laptop of mine and it does just fine.Salix looks good out of the box with a nice selection of backgrounds and a decent choice of icons.The package manager is very similar to Synaptic on Debian so not at all scary,so overall I am very glad I tried it out and now it is going to stay on the old laptop as long as it has life in it.
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Version: 15.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-09-11
Votes: 5
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Salix is what Manjaro to Arch is. Salix is what Ubuntu is/was to Debain. A very nice and simple system, and I am so happy that Salix 15.0 is finally out. Even though I don't use it because I am very comfortable with my current Linux distribution, I probably would have a good time with Salix. Also not that bloated (850 packages) for a "full" operating system. Sadly based on a distribution that is pretty inconsistent, which is why it took so long for Salix to have a new release, however if you are not happy with Ubuntu, Manjaro et cetera, then try out Salix, and give then some love.
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Version: 15.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-09-10
Votes: 21
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The best way to describe Salix is 'Old Faithful': It's like that comfortable old armchair or those well worn in boots that you know you can rely on when the new furniture disappoints with its poor build quality, or when your expensive new designer shoes give you corns and blisters.
Salix is 'Old school GNU/Linux', based on the longest serving GNU/Linux build; still proudly (and reassuringly) holding high the FOSS standards of do one thing and do it well; no creeping systemd here; no wadges of software that all do the same thing; no forced cointainered apps...
This is GNU/Linux as it was intended to be. Thank the stars it hasn't been dragged into the same sort of modernity wished for in other comments here.
I'll take my GNU/Linux straight, thank you.
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Version: 15.0
Rating: 2
Date: 2022-09-06
Votes: 2
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When I discovered that Salix was back after a 5 year absence, I was very excited. Fifteen years ago this was one of my favorite Linux distros. Today, I am shocked to see that Salix really hasn't changed very much since 2017! It's got the same clunky installation process, and I don't see any modern advances. In fact,you almost have to know code to run it live. Come on guys! You can do better than this. Can anyone bring Slackware into the 21st century? Like Mint has done to Ubuntu? Like Manjaro has done to Arch? Like Neptune has done to Debian? Perhaps not. I guess that's too much to ask for.
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Version: 15.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-09-06
Votes: 6
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Bottom line. Salix is not the most user-friendly distro, sometimes you need to install some more packages to make everything work as you wish, (e.g. wi-fi drivers), which is not ideal, right? But then, what is it that makes Salix 15.0 so different from other GNU/Linux distributions?
Well, Salix is fast, simple, has a nice and responsive desktop environment but above all, Salix is rock solid.
As Neil Armstrong once said “Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.” With Salix is the same in every release.
Everything is smooth, composed and well done. Must be the nearly thirty years of Slackware's legacy. You get the results you want, and if you're willing to make the ride, you'll get there. Predictable, I think is the right word. You know what's going to happen, and there will be no nasty surprises.
Overall, Salix 15.0 is a well-achieved product. In the areas where it fails, it is done on purpose. It is not a bad guarantee of quality. Consequently, recovery from these failures is fairly straightforward. As you use the distro, you can like it, and forgive yourself some of its flaws. I know it is not a beginner system but that is not the target of this distro either. But I think any user can install it and use it without problems.
Worth your time, for sure.
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Version: 15.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-09-05
Votes: 3
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Have used Salix 15 XFCE version for almost a week now, easy to install, very stable and fast. The Libreoffice did not display window on start hence removed it and installed instead the flatpac libreoffice from flatpac hub, it installed directly from the Flatpac hub link, excellent. Otherwise no problems so far, bluetooth worked fine after installing the Blueman via Gslapt package manager of Salix. Pulse audio worked fine with bluetooth. Appimage apps worked fine as well. Salix is beauftiful, fast and stable. Thanks to the creators of Salix for making an excellent distro based on Slackware.
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Version: 15.0-rc2
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-08-11
Votes: 4
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I have been using the latest Salix releases recently to test the system because i want to use a distro that is stable, fast, without systemd, and has slackware as a base. Although Salix has been in dormant state for a while here on the distrowatch (although it is quite active and is only based on slackware and as such has a slower release cycle).
I found Salix to be an excellent option to install on my old laptop and I hope that version 15.0 is released soon as I will be installing it on my laptop, that's for sure.
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Version: 15.0-alpha2
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-06-02
Votes: 8
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Very nice Slackware based distro. Salix is quite easy to use and is very low on resources. The system performs fast and is very stable, being based in Slackware Linux I didn't expect otherwise. The Xfce desktop are well put together. Some nice system tools and one program per task philosophy. Really good localization support and good artwork overall, The distro website is very clean and simple and the team behind is very devouted and hardworking.I truly recommend for lazy slackers users that want another approach of Slackware Linux
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Version: 14.2.1
Rating: 8
Date: 2021-08-28
Votes: 2
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Last week I installed Salix again after some time to see how it works, and yes, it still is going strong, even after 5 years.
The ISO images are very old and the software repository on those images are not up to date - new and inexperienced users will get stuck at this point. Fixing this problem is not very difficult, but you have to know how to do it.
Updating the installed system was fast and without any problems. Sure, you have to like Slackware to use Salix, but other than that Salix and Slackware still rocks. Waiting for Salix and Slackware 15.
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Version: 14.2.1
Rating: 8
Date: 2021-02-24
Votes: 1
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Had been a Salix user for some time (years) but a few things were/are holding it back for me personally. The system itself was always solid and dependable. Loved the Salix tools, after all I am a lazy Slacker.
It was the software, mainly LibreOffice. I wanted/needed a newer version to keep up with MS Excel 365 mostly. I had spotty success in installing a later version of LibreOffice using AlienBobs builds and the needed dependencies. Same process but different results at times.
I want XFCE, (can tolerate Mate or Cinnamon) and NO systemd.
When a newer version of Salix comes out I will be torn. I have been using Devuan as of late and it's been OK also.
My wife likes Salix and she DOES NOT like change and is NOT a techie. She would give it a 9.5 at least.
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Latest Reviews
Project: Salix
Version: 15.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-09-07
Votes: 2
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I was a long term Slackware user. Later Zenwalk, then Salix user.
Salix is still doing its best to keep the standard we used to.
The selection of applications is still great. The additional packages available are somewhat limited, but still acceptable.
However, the 5+ years release cycle of Slackware as a base of Salix is unacceptable in this overclocked world. All of the Salix ecosystem will be obsoleted with the speed of light.
Therefore changes are needed.
Salix should choose an other big and more recent distro (maybe devuan or debian) as a base.
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Project: Salix
Version: 15.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-07-20
Votes: 3
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Recently I have purchased a secondhand laptop, Compaq CQ 58. I want to use this laptop for work at home. Mailing, text-editing, watching movies. The laptop is more than ten years old, and I tried a number of distro's on it. But al them made the laptop extremely slow. Except Salix. Salix is a real good choice for people to use at work as well as al home. All the necessary programs ( Libreoffice, Gimp, mail, firefox, cups, etc.) are installed by default. And it is extremely light on system resources. Salix is based on Slackware, so there is absolutely no desktop oriented distro more stable than Salix. I wish there could more publicity give to this Operating System, because it very suitable to use in offices or at home. It deserves a lot more credit than it receives right now. (Maybe a review at Distrowatch could help in this regard). As a con could be taken that the installation is not graphical like many other distributions today. The install-program is dialog-based in the terminal. For me, there is no problem with this but maybe for other users it could be a little scary. There is also a live version with a very barbones graphical installation method.
A great distro, deserving much more appreciation. Kudo's to the developers!
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Project: Salix
Version: 15.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-07-17
Votes: 3
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Awesome Slackware-based distribution that makes life easier for the average lazy Slacker. Especially with Slapt-get (same as Apt/Apt-get/Aptitude/DPKG in Debian/Devuan). Dependency correction is a feature, and it prevents the user from installing so much cruft
I got a "full" Xfce desktop with my favorite GTK/Qt programs (including SlackBuilds and packages converted with DEB2TGZ), and it barely uses more than 1,000 packages. On my Dell laptop, uses barely 500 MB on boot, and it stays at 600-700 MB after a few days have passed.
If I had some constructive criticisms, they would be to replace Firefox with a lighter/privacy-oriented alternative (e.g. SeaMonkey, Pale Moon) and make Flatpaks completely optional (I had to remove that bloat after install).
The SLI (Salix Live Installer) is very thoroughly straight-forward and more user-friendly than even the overrated Calamares. On top of that, you have the choice of using LILO as your bootloader.
If you prefer something more UNIX-like and as close to the *BSDs as possible, but Slackware is too overwhelming for you, then Salix or even Slackel would be the two respins of it to give a shot. You won't regret it.
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Project: Salix
Version: 15.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-07-01
Votes: 0
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Equipment used
Dell Latitude Laptop model 3340 about 7yrs old
Intel Celeron 2957u dual core processor.
Solid State Drive 120Gb
RAM 8Gb
I used the Salix64bit version 15.0 live operating system as it gave me the full 8Gb RAM usage.
(Note that the Salix version 15.0 live operating system was limited to 4Gb RAM usage)
The one page installer worked well. It required me to pay special attention in preparing the hard drive.
I used GParted to prepare the hard drive partition, labelling and boot flags.
Then I followed the instructions (especially the fine print!) and the installation went smoothly.
I used GSlapt to install my Audacious, Bluetooth and VLC programs.
Chrome was installed using the Flatpack program. Everything went well.
I even installed Balena Etcher as a .rpm package and got it to run from the binary link!
My computer worked very well and I liked its basic use and clean appearance.
My computer is now working better and faster than those new laptops!
Using Salix requires an advanced user to program it.
However it can be set up in such a way to make it easy for a beginner to use!
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Project: Salix
Version: 15.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-06-12
Votes: 11
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it's just perfect: performance is great, it's stable, it's solid, it's nice out of the box. It is a round distribution in all respects. It has easily become my everyday distribution, many thanks to the developers, I hope they continue in this vein in the future. If I don't get something in the store I install it from slackbuilds and that's it. To put them in perspective, it's as easy to use as a Linux Mint with the performance of OpenSUSE. You will not regret installing this magnificent linux distribution, it is excellent in every aspect
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Project: Salix
Version: 15.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-06-05
Votes: 0
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Equipment
2006 Dell 620 business laptop 1gb RAM 80gb HDD Intel Centrino Duo processor.
Completely wiped drive and installed the Salix 15.0 distro on it.
All apps worked out of the box.
The computer worked very quickly. I installed the latest Firefox ESR on it.
Also the latest Balena Etcher flashing/cloning utility. I got the rpm file and extracted it out.
After that I sent the balena etcher to a link to the desktop and got it to work.
The GSlapt package manager has a lot of familiar packages and it is quite easy to install apps and
form upgrades on the system.
Advantages of the Salix 15.0 distro is that it enables you to have a good second computer to perform office or light work.
Video was good as long as you don't push the browser to hard. Boot up time is 1 min and shut down time about 30 secs.
Disadvantage it only access up to 4gb of RAM.
Big advantage I got a 16yr old computer to perform like the new ones in the store.
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Project: Salix
Version: 15.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-05-06
Votes: 5
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I have slackware installed on a notebook with no problems.
I wanted to install it on another PC, a 32-bit netbook, but having to install everything by hand and configure it is too much for me. A lot of time is wasted.
Looking for a slackware based distro I found Salix os and I am really surprised.
The distribution is easy to install, and is less tedious than slackware.
The package system is very good and resolves dependencies.
I haven't had any problems so far and it works fast.
What was not in the repositories I installed from slackbuilds.
I like that it comes with Xfce that looks great and needs almost no configuration to get it just the way you want.
From sclackware there are many more things to configure.
It is incredible how fast Salix is, on this netbook I had tried Debian, Devuan, Peppermint, none runs as fast as Salix.
The ram memory in idle marks 350mb.
Salix comes with graphical tools to manage the packages, and also the services. I've been using linux for years and love using the terminal, but I find these tools to be a great addition.
I also liked Salix's page. It has a very good guide to start using the system.
I congratulate those who are behind Salix.
I think slackware is unique in the linux world and has many advantages over others.
Having said that I think salix is a breath of fresh air.
Something that slackware itself doesn't have, unless you invest your time.
Highly recommended!
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Project: Salix
Version: 15.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-03-23
Votes: 4
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I got tired of Debian and Arch based distros, and decided to try a Slackware based one To me Salix has everything I need and nothing I don't need. It's simple to install, especially the live version which I am using now. It gets very few updates which is one thing I really love about it, it's very stable, and in my opinion, a very complete distro. I haven't used anything but Salix 15.0 since it was released last September, and don't intend to. It uses Flathub to install programs not found in GSlapt, and they work seamlessly, the kernel is an LTS kernel, Firefox is up to date, and ESR. Salix is my favorite distro now, and I will no use no other.
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Project: Salix
Version: 15.0
Rating: 2
Date: 2023-03-18
Votes: 6
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Pretty distro, but that's the only "pro". The Slackware packaging method is a mess with all the constant bloat of not separating lib packages from daemons or main ones. For example, despite being on xfce4 and xorg, I could not get my programs to work without wayland installed. On Debian, you just need the lib files of wayland for xfce4 to work. That ensures dependencies are met without having the actual display server, too. Also, if you want to use alsamixer, make sure pulseaudio is installed. Very confusing.
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Project: Salix
Version: 15.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-02-07
Votes: 4
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I am very pleased with the Salix15 distro.Presently it is my goto desktop.
I am using it with a Dell 3646 Inspiron desktop computer which is about 9 years old.
It has a 500Gb hard drive (used) Intel Celeron processor and 8Gb installed RAM.
Advantages:
Very clean looking and easy to read graphical user interface (Xfce) It looks almost like the Cinnamon desktop.
Out of the box ready to go packages are already installed.
The already included GSlapt package manager is easy to install and remove Slackware packages.
Fast boot up and shut down times for an old hard drive. The operating system ran quickly and smoothly.
Disadvantages:
Setting up and using Salix15 requires that you must an intermediate to advanced Linux user.
The installation process takes one page and it requires that you follow the instructions.
Although I had 8Gb of RAM installed, I could only access up to 4Gb of RAM on this 64bit distro.
For some reason, I was not able to install Chromium or Chrome browser.
Conclusion: I am very pleased with this distro and I rate it a 10 out of 10.
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Project: Salix
Version: 14.2.1
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-11-30
Votes: 5
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I generally do not write reviews of Linux Distros, but feel that I have a point of view and information of use here. Having used many differing forms (Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, Manjaro, PCLinuxOS, Gentoo, Mx-Linux, EasyOS and ClearLinux among others and even a few BSD forms) I can say that Salix has been a very pleasant surprise. Using Elilo is different from Grub2, but really is generally of no concern in the difference for any routine usage.
Installation was facile and so long as the network was identified early, even a WiFi update could be done very easily to get to a working start. My display was detected properly without any problem. Printer use under CUPS-gutenprint was fine. Even Bluetooth function was accomplished readily.
Startup is extremely quick and perhaps the only limitation is the lack of many options for a background. I can live with the small selection available.
Slackware is certainly a valid type of system for running a distro and Salix has made the business of handling dependencies much less burdensome. Using the Terminal under XFCE, a very serviceable Desktop, or using the GUI both work virtually flawlessly so far as I can tell. The system has excellent ability to add many applications through its slapt-get and slapt-src utilities in the former and through the Gslapt GUI and this is well supplemented by the incorporation of Flathub for flatpack use. Beyond that , I have more or less nearly any other package which I can make readily.
Many seeking to take the ordinary .gz file can merely take that file and translate it to .tgz which I do easily, though there are conversion programs for this alteration which one can use for the purpose. Once a .tgz file is created, that file can be managed by using the spkg utility in the terminal under the sudo or root status and this will create a Salix compatible file with installation from the use.
I was most pleased to find that there was not even a need to go through the process of upgrading to Salix15. On noting the release of the new release, at least in the case of my installation, I found that all of the steps for the upgrade had been managed the prior day by using the Upgrade in the Gslapt GUI and there was complete management of all the various steps otherwise to be found in the upgrade.
I have been able to make all of my hardware other than scanning work easily. An Epson Scanner could be added through Flathub and most others could be managed with paid proprietary software available through Flathub as well, though this is not essential to my needs for my unit.
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Project: Salix
Version: 15.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-11-11
Votes: 14
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Salix is a very well made Linux distribution. It is very fast and easy to use. It has an excellent and fast package manager and an excellent set of tools. It comes with the essential software to get started. It has good language support and a nice responsive desktop environment. The installation is not the most user friendly but it is quite fast and relatively easy to use. Salix can give old computers a new life as it consumes little memory and resources. It is a very stable distribution with a community that is very helpful and friendly. I highly recommend it
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Project: Salix
Version: 15.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-11-04
Votes: 3
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It is an old love, I was waiting for its comeback.
So, this is a way to install an easier slackware especially on old hardware, but not only.
Nothing changed too much, but the world of Slackware is aimed to be stable along the years: modern software but with the ancient way.
If you need or want something working, fun this is a good solution.
One remark? Gslapt is fine, but it should have a "category" way to choose the software packages to install (by the way you can install other packages not present on it using the slackware ways, but this could be outside the ideal range for Salix).
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Project: Salix
Version: 15.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-10-26
Votes: 7
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Excellent 'slap it in and run it' distribution!!
I found it to be very clean and stable as a live distro and when I installed it on a Acer 2-core laptop with 4GB RAM it ran flawlessly with zero hiccups and very speedily. Updates are pretty seamless considering that I have been a diehard apt user.
The only faults I could find (and an extremely nit-picky one) was that I could not find a package for gkrellm in this distro and that using bluetooth takes a couple more clicks than Mint for example.
I love it!
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Project: Salix
Version: 15.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-10-20
Votes: 2
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It is an old love, I was waiting for its comeback.
So, this is a way to install an easier slackware especially on old hardware, but not only.
Nothing changed too much, but the world of Slackware is aimed to be stable along the years: modern software but with the ancient way.
If you need or want something working, fun this is a good solution.
One remark? Gslapt is fine, but it should have a "category" way to choose the software packages to install (by the way you can install other packages not present on it using the slackware ways, but this could be outside the ideal range for Salix).
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Project: Salix
Version: 15.0
Rating: 6
Date: 2022-09-24
Votes: 0
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Salix 15 is for a Slackware-based distro supposedly easy to install but still their installer looks way too obsolete and keyboard controls during installation would surely feel cumbersome for newcomers and (spoiled) veterans. Hey Salix folks, SUSE had a better installer back in 2001! "Optimized for desktop" means graphical installer in 2022. Of course if you pay increased attention you're going to pull it with a little bit of effort. Installation defaults are generally reasonable. Installer asks you to set a relatively stronger password than usual but this is a justifiable requirement. You boot into an XFCE with an attractive theme and a nice desktop background to greet you. Thankfully, Salix uses whisker menu. Desktop feels very responsive. The default selection of software (if you go for the "full" installation as I did) is a mixed-bag. A full-fledged LibreOffice installation ticks a box. However, we get Firefox-ESR for some reason. Is Salix in the league of LTS / stable distros? Why not the main-branch version of Firefox? Nothing wrong with the ESR. Works fine on Debian. An odd choice all the same. Claws-Mail as default email client. An obscure application that automatically cast a shadow of doubt over Salix and their team. What they thought? Yeah, GSlapt software manager can remedy that. It's a very tidy software manager in the vein of Synaptic. Asunder CD ripper...! One of the best but too retro, no? Who's installing this by default on their distro today? In addition to these obscurities, we find some crappy vanilla XFCE apps, almost every other XFCE distro drops. Default software selection leaves much to be desired. I know I can install my software of choice but I can install Slackware instead as well. Salix is lightweight, well-performing distro which lacks the polish and cohesion of other XFCE offerings. Slackware die-hards stick with the real thing, Slackware itself. Systemd haters? They will find a much more complete system in MX. Looking for an easy XFCE? Mint, Lite, Zorin is the way to go. Salix feels like a "family" project, with some amusing retro and subjective touches.
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Project: Salix
Version: 15.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-09-20
Votes: 8
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I am very impressed with Salix 15.0,it is easy enough to install and runs very smoothly on my elderly HP/Compaq 6910p.I wanted something light and reliable to use on this old laptop of mine and it does just fine.Salix looks good out of the box with a nice selection of backgrounds and a decent choice of icons.The package manager is very similar to Synaptic on Debian so not at all scary,so overall I am very glad I tried it out and now it is going to stay on the old laptop as long as it has life in it.
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Project: Salix
Version: 15.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-09-11
Votes: 5
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Salix is what Manjaro to Arch is. Salix is what Ubuntu is/was to Debain. A very nice and simple system, and I am so happy that Salix 15.0 is finally out. Even though I don't use it because I am very comfortable with my current Linux distribution, I probably would have a good time with Salix. Also not that bloated (850 packages) for a "full" operating system. Sadly based on a distribution that is pretty inconsistent, which is why it took so long for Salix to have a new release, however if you are not happy with Ubuntu, Manjaro et cetera, then try out Salix, and give then some love.
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Project: Salix
Version: 15.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-09-10
Votes: 21
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The best way to describe Salix is 'Old Faithful': It's like that comfortable old armchair or those well worn in boots that you know you can rely on when the new furniture disappoints with its poor build quality, or when your expensive new designer shoes give you corns and blisters.
Salix is 'Old school GNU/Linux', based on the longest serving GNU/Linux build; still proudly (and reassuringly) holding high the FOSS standards of do one thing and do it well; no creeping systemd here; no wadges of software that all do the same thing; no forced cointainered apps...
This is GNU/Linux as it was intended to be. Thank the stars it hasn't been dragged into the same sort of modernity wished for in other comments here.
I'll take my GNU/Linux straight, thank you.
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Project: Salix
Version: 15.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-09-06
Votes: 6
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Bottom line. Salix is not the most user-friendly distro, sometimes you need to install some more packages to make everything work as you wish, (e.g. wi-fi drivers), which is not ideal, right? But then, what is it that makes Salix 15.0 so different from other GNU/Linux distributions?
Well, Salix is fast, simple, has a nice and responsive desktop environment but above all, Salix is rock solid.
As Neil Armstrong once said “Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.” With Salix is the same in every release.
Everything is smooth, composed and well done. Must be the nearly thirty years of Slackware's legacy. You get the results you want, and if you're willing to make the ride, you'll get there. Predictable, I think is the right word. You know what's going to happen, and there will be no nasty surprises.
Overall, Salix 15.0 is a well-achieved product. In the areas where it fails, it is done on purpose. It is not a bad guarantee of quality. Consequently, recovery from these failures is fairly straightforward. As you use the distro, you can like it, and forgive yourself some of its flaws. I know it is not a beginner system but that is not the target of this distro either. But I think any user can install it and use it without problems.
Worth your time, for sure.
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Project: Salix
Version: 15.0
Rating: 2
Date: 2022-09-06
Votes: 2
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When I discovered that Salix was back after a 5 year absence, I was very excited. Fifteen years ago this was one of my favorite Linux distros. Today, I am shocked to see that Salix really hasn't changed very much since 2017! It's got the same clunky installation process, and I don't see any modern advances. In fact,you almost have to know code to run it live. Come on guys! You can do better than this. Can anyone bring Slackware into the 21st century? Like Mint has done to Ubuntu? Like Manjaro has done to Arch? Like Neptune has done to Debian? Perhaps not. I guess that's too much to ask for.
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Project: Salix
Version: 15.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-09-05
Votes: 3
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Have used Salix 15 XFCE version for almost a week now, easy to install, very stable and fast. The Libreoffice did not display window on start hence removed it and installed instead the flatpac libreoffice from flatpac hub, it installed directly from the Flatpac hub link, excellent. Otherwise no problems so far, bluetooth worked fine after installing the Blueman via Gslapt package manager of Salix. Pulse audio worked fine with bluetooth. Appimage apps worked fine as well. Salix is beauftiful, fast and stable. Thanks to the creators of Salix for making an excellent distro based on Slackware.
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Project: Salix
Version: 15.0-rc2
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-08-11
Votes: 4
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I have been using the latest Salix releases recently to test the system because i want to use a distro that is stable, fast, without systemd, and has slackware as a base. Although Salix has been in dormant state for a while here on the distrowatch (although it is quite active and is only based on slackware and as such has a slower release cycle).
I found Salix to be an excellent option to install on my old laptop and I hope that version 15.0 is released soon as I will be installing it on my laptop, that's for sure.
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Project: Salix
Version: 15.0-alpha2
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-06-02
Votes: 8
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Very nice Slackware based distro. Salix is quite easy to use and is very low on resources. The system performs fast and is very stable, being based in Slackware Linux I didn't expect otherwise. The Xfce desktop are well put together. Some nice system tools and one program per task philosophy. Really good localization support and good artwork overall, The distro website is very clean and simple and the team behind is very devouted and hardworking.I truly recommend for lazy slackers users that want another approach of Slackware Linux
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Project: Salix
Version: 14.2.1
Rating: 8
Date: 2021-08-28
Votes: 2
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Last week I installed Salix again after some time to see how it works, and yes, it still is going strong, even after 5 years.
The ISO images are very old and the software repository on those images are not up to date - new and inexperienced users will get stuck at this point. Fixing this problem is not very difficult, but you have to know how to do it.
Updating the installed system was fast and without any problems. Sure, you have to like Slackware to use Salix, but other than that Salix and Slackware still rocks. Waiting for Salix and Slackware 15.
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Project: Salix
Version: 14.2.1
Rating: 8
Date: 2021-02-24
Votes: 1
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Had been a Salix user for some time (years) but a few things were/are holding it back for me personally. The system itself was always solid and dependable. Loved the Salix tools, after all I am a lazy Slacker.
It was the software, mainly LibreOffice. I wanted/needed a newer version to keep up with MS Excel 365 mostly. I had spotty success in installing a later version of LibreOffice using AlienBobs builds and the needed dependencies. Same process but different results at times.
I want XFCE, (can tolerate Mate or Cinnamon) and NO systemd.
When a newer version of Salix comes out I will be torn. I have been using Devuan as of late and it's been OK also.
My wife likes Salix and she DOES NOT like change and is NOT a techie. She would give it a 9.5 at least.
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