Hi Max! And welcome!
maximus wrote:If you'd like to have me
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I'd like to help out...
Of course you are very welcome to! No need to ask!
maximus wrote:I understand this is a beta release, is the likelihood of reinstalling regularly at this stage very great?
According to my calculations, I would say that the probability of having to reinstall is exactly 0.
maximus wrote:I have read that Salix is/aims to be backward compatible with Slack, so I assume that major updates would be inline with Slack's and that Salix should be stable enough as is for day to day use?
Exactly. If Slackware is stable, the Salix should be just as stable. We're not changing anything in slackware, we're using the slackware kernel, glibc, xorg, everything, even the slackware xfce. And Slackware has a reputation for being rock solid...
maximus wrote:Do I understand correctly that Slackware 13.0 is the stable release, and Slackware-current is the development release?
Yes. Slackware (and therefore Salix) has versioned repositories. The stable release is now 13.0. We are not going to pursue keeping up with current for now. Our main focus is now 13.0. In 5-6 months when Slackware starts stabilizing for 13.1 release, we'll get to that.
maximus wrote:I'd need to have VirtualBox installed for some other work, I have the Zen vbox package installed on the virtual machine right now and it seems to start ok - haven't tried running a virtual machine inside the virtual machine though!
The zenwalk package should work. And laprjns might create a virtualbox package for salix. But, in any case, I'm running virtualbox using the binaries provided in the virtualbox homepage with absolutely no problems, so that should work for you too.