Love Salix, but there's something weird about its network settings. WAY too often after installing Salix (over the past week), I've been hit by numerous Captchas while doing simple Google (DDGo, Startpage, whatnot) searches. They seem to be coming out of nowhere. Is there a reason for this?

Kinda ...

Oooohhh -- been down in the lower 40s today! This is great!

@jury -- thanks! Good to know!!! I hadn't considered that Salix might have been "dormant" more than once.

@DidierSpaier -- many, many thanks for that! I followed the instructions to update the kernel, rebooted, followed the instructions to build acpi_call, and it worked. I did the modprobe thing ...

Okay, inched past that issue. Ran the "sudo slapt-src -u" command. Got futher into the build, then ran into this:

$ sudo slapt-src -i acpi_call
The following packages will be installed:
acpi_call
Do you want to continue? [y/N] Y
Fetching README...Done
Fetching acpi_call.SlackBuild...Done ...

Bummer, @DidierSpaier -- I'll search for how to get around this, but if you just happen to have a suggestion, I'll try it!

Thanks, @DidierSpaier!

I shall give it a try.

Funny, finding perhaps my current favorite distro, only to find it to be "dormant"! And sad. Hope it gets picked up again. Beats AntiX in lightness and usefulness....

NEVERMIND!!! (Probably no moderators now to approve the original post anyway, sorry to say!)

# chmod -x /usr/bin/ModemManager

...took care of it! Wish I'd thought of that before on my other distros!

Wishing for Salix to be continued/renewed! I like it too much already!

Hi all, new to Salix but run several other distros. I always remove or disable ModemManager from my distros, because (1) it takes up RAM that could be better used and (2) there's no modems to manage. It's one of those things that probably is loaded up on most distros regardless of need, and I'm ...

Hi all, new to Salix, but I use a lot of other distros. On my ancient (ca~2011?) Samsung laptop with Optimus hybrid graphics, the Nvidia card has long been a problematic source of heat, so on every distro I have, I've installed the acpi-call-dkms package to allow me to run the command to turn off ...