Pretty good review of Salix 14.1 Xfce here:
http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/salix-14-1-xfce.html
"Like a rock"
Salix Review - 14.1 Xfce edition
Re: Salix Review - 14.1 Xfce edition
Yes, not a bad review after all. I'm wondering if the booting problem he had on bare metal was that he didn't use LILO from the installation, but chose to configure grub to add Salix and he made a mistake there. After all he mentions that he has other distributions (booted with grub I guess) on the same PC.