Rosa and ALT are not the only descendants of Mandriva. There's also Mageia and PCLinuxOS, both independent and the latter resolutely free of systemd for those who hate it.

Well here I am running Salix, having installed from the installation disk. The fact that the live installer looked for a boot flag and wouldn't see sda5 shows that it was treating my UEFI system as if it were legacy BIOS. But all's well that ends well.

I have 5 partitions: an efi, two formated as ext 4, a swap, and a newly created sda5 formated as ext4. My intention was to use sda5 to install distros for review, something I used to do. By my usual method of "creative tinkering" I found that the selection box is not greyed out if I mark sda5 as ...

I'm trying to install Salix alongside another distro using the live installer. I've answered all its questions and I have a free partition available but it won't work. The box for the install location is greyed out and clicking on it has no result. What am I doing wrong?

I notice that people are still referring to Lilo, but it's been discontinued. Has anyone heard of some-one taking over the project?
http://lilo.alioth.debian.org/

Over the last few months there have been a lot of people coming to LinuxQuestions asking for advice about switching to Linux now that XP support has ended. I tend to advise Mint for the larger computers, AntiX for the smaller ones. In fact Salix would be a good choice (the LXDE version is 3/4 of the ...

Success: I've switched back to gdm and that gets LibreOffice etc working. I suspect that xdm may be behind the unpopulated panel, but I'm too lazy to investigate further. As for SiS, as you say, there are not many of us left without video cards, and VESA does fine.

This was a clean install for ...

I've just installed Salix 14.1 Mate, 32-bit version, and it's a series of problems.

1. To start with, X wouldn't start and the log stated that there'd been a segfault. I'd had that problem with Mint recently, so I tried the solution I'd used there: switch from gdm to xdm. That got me "x1 respawning ...

Today I'll be posting my review of Salix 14 on LinuxQuestions: 9/10 again! A great job.

All we need now is for a "tick the box" provision of encryption for /home. Fedora, Fuduntu, Mint, OpenSUSE, ZevenOS, and ZorinOS all have it: could you adapt someone elses code?

My review at Linuxquestions has been read by 1269 people in the last 2 weeks: there's obviously an interest in Mate. By the way, I gave it 8/10.