Installation and First Look at Salix OS

Salix is a GNU/Linux distribution based on Slackware that is simple, fast and easy to use. Stability being a primary goal of Salix. This distro aims to be small, light and fast. The Salix motto: Linux for the lazy Slacker.

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[tylerdean]

Are you ever going to take a look at FreeDOS? Definitely one of those open source OS'es that has had a huge impact but people don't really talk about because nobody uses DOS in the modern era. Great for retro gaming or using legacy hardware and software. When even minimalist Linux is too heavy, DOS is there to run your software.

[CristianMolina]

Oh, it supports 32bits CPUs, pretty lightweight, seems nice for those old 1gb ram machines. Thanks for sharing, DT!

[furycd]

Pidgin is still always one of the first things I install on a new install. I mainly use it for connecting to irc. I know there's probably way better options for chatting on irc, but I like pidgin & I've been using it for that specific purpose for around somewhat 10+ years now. I also still buy all my music as physical cd so asunder is something else I always choose to install....

[stefhannington]

Looks like a great slackware distro. I have used pure slackware and many others and used to enjoy the long complex setup process but I have to say I now much prefer easy to install distros like your Ubuntu, Manjaro and fedora. It would be good to see an easier to use for beginners slackware distro using the calimares installer.

[mrzazx]

The best thing yu did shouting out for this amazing team of SalixOS. Gapan and his mates. They deserve it. They being working hard to achieve an amazing distro.

[RHTORAS]

LXDE is not dead. Also writing whereis systemD does not show you init system. IN most systemD free distro typing this shows results even if not components are used. There is fakesystemctl to trick apps need systemD. To check init system type: ```ps -p 1``` on a terminal. I wish you could show us slackbuilds in this distro.

[danduby]

Salix is my new favorite distro, and I said the other day when I saw your XFCE tier list video, that I would put it in the great category.

[themroc]

Hey DT! The guys who used to do Sabayon Linux just released version 1.0 of the new gentoo-based distro they've been working at for like 2 years now, Mocaccino OS. I thought you might be interested in doing a review as you don't usually do Gentoo content and from what i see i think they could really use a hand making their work known.

[folksurvival]

"Claws Mail is not really great"

Incorrect, Claws Mail *is* great and one of the best gui email clients there is. Also more secure than Thunderbird.

[usernamejp]

To check what init is running at pid 1, you can use: "ps -efo comm= -p 1"

[MrWarneet]

Liking the no Grub or Systemd. Will spin up a VM for a closer look, cheers Derek.

[sprinklednights]

This was the first Linux Distribution that I have found, which is crazy.

[sillyness]

Chicago, Louisianna. Who doesn't know that place?

Nice ncurses installer, btw.

[tailsorange]

Greetings from Singapore - SURPRISING to see that locale right next to the US' locale...

[indoor_vaping]

Neat! I didn't realize distributions still shipped with LILO

[redname]

Thank you so much Mr. DT. Great video :-)

[phonewithoutquestion]

The "strong and complicated password" meme being blocked is a PEBKAC error.

[sweep-]

Hey DT. Can you go over what makes Main line versions of Linux distros different to each other (like Arch compared to Slackware)? It can't just be all about the package manager...

[muchospantaloons]

slackware used to let us choose some weird console fonts at install .. i wonder if salix has that in case we chose "core"

[Mantikal]

I tried installing this over a used drive - which had windows previously on it. I thought that it would just be wiped out and written over by this installation. Well, it didn't work out. The install process detected the ntfs and fat 32 partitions and pointed them out and asked if I wanted to include them. I said "no" and thought they would just be written over.
The installation failed to install the LILO boot manager because of that. It installed everything else except that.
The take away - if you're planning on using and already used drive for this, make sure to low-level format it before starting - or just get a brand new drive. That's when I had a successful install.