Perhaps we can rename the "Problems" section in "Questions & problems". Sounds good to me.

2.) Similarly, before making this post, here , I looked to see if there was a section specifically for questions/issues/suggestions with the site itself and, again, did not find one.

Same as point 1: I ...

I would like to know whether all service ports are at least closed * in the default configuration of Salix.
No, they aren't. AFAIK ntpd is running by default, but it doesn't serve time to foreign hosts.

Thank you for the prompt reply and I'm sorry for not getting back sooner.

does a software ...

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After just making my first post, I have the following comments and suggestions:

1.) It occured to me that the question I had posted as a reply to an existing (related) thread might be better made separately , as a new post . So I looked for an appropriate section but could not find one, as ...

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I would like to know whether all service ports are at least closed * in the default configuration of Salix.

(* closed , if not "stealthed" ; I realize that the latter is controversial, with some (many?) arguing that it is not only unnecessary to have all ports "stealthed" but may actually ...