Hi,cimarron wrote:Thanks for the good news about Slackware. They sound committed to offering a real alternative to systemd. If Mint is eventually forced to follow Debian's path, I'll look for a Slackware-based distro for my wife's computer.
Salix looks pretty nice. Anyone tried it? It has Mate and KDE versions and also a light Openbox version.
I have tried Salix and it didn't go particularly well for me although others had more success with it.
I mentioned it at the top of page 131 of this thread; I made at least one mistake in installation, which may have accounted for at least some of the problems I had with it.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 639#851819
Nevertheless, I use Absolute now which works well for me and is based on Slackware 14.1. Vector's also a good distro which is based on Slackware, as is Zenwalk.
Good luck anyway; it's good to see other people using Slackware or Slackware-based distros as it's one of the oldest Linux distros around and even predates Windows 95.