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EaglePrince wrote:Just installed on home built pc.
64-bit Athlon 3500 dual-core with 2Gig RAM, nVidia graphics and 'tiny' 320 gig disk, shared with Vista Home Premium, which I need for some propietory program I use at the moment.

So far, I'm lovin' it

64 bits? Salix is 32 bits, so you can use only the half of your cpu registers

Suggestion: Install your Vista in a virtualbox machine and get running Salix for 100% of time

damNageHack wrote: 64 bits? Salix is 32 bits, so you can use only the half of your cpu registers

Suggestion: Install your Vista in a virtualbox machine and get running Salix for 100% of time

That sounds interesting. My Vista is 64 bits too, btw

Unfortunately, I'm not too hot with virtual machines, and trying to get anything Windows to work inside Linux sounds like a lot of hard work!

I'm an old Zenwalker, and there was some talk about a 64-bit version for some time, but that seemed to just fade away quietly. I might have gone for the 64-bit Slackware, but I don't like KDE, and trying to install some apps I use quite heavily proved a bit of a pain. This machine is intended to test Salix to see if it can dethrone Wolvix from my laptop That heavily depends on whether or not I can get Audacity and OGMRip to build properly...

ogmrip is already in the salix repo...

Unfortunately, I'm not too hot with virtual machines, and trying to get anything Windows to work inside Linux sounds like a lot of hard work!

No, not really much work. Virtual Box is easy going, especially the GUI is very nice designed. Only the upgrades of vbox versions themself are sometimes a little bit tricky, but never mind - nobody is forced to upgrade always and immediately.

You said you have a Vista 64 bits running, this would not work in a 32 bits virtual machine. You can *not* run applications with 64 bits on a 32 bits platform, software emulation will be too slow at all in my opinion (possibly half so fast than 32 bits applications then ). But if you have a native 64 bits capable host operation system, it will be able to run 32 bits guest systems also. Unfortunately, there is no salix 64 available.

Let me know if you succeed with audacity. I failed miserably.

Shador wrote:Let me know if you succeed with audacity. I failed miserably.

What's the problem? It compiled fine here. You can find a fast build package without tweaking, checking and SLKBUILD (just configure, make, make install) here:
http://thenktor.home.dyndns.org/download/

thenktor wrote:

Shador wrote:Let me know if you succeed with audacity. I failed miserably.

What's the problem? It compiled fine here. You can find a fast build package without tweaking, checking and SLKBUILD (just configure, make, make install) here:
http://thenktor.home.dyndns.org/download/

pulse audio kept failing, i think.
http://gaia.homelinux.org/salix/package ... 86-1ab.log
http://gaia.homelinux.org/salix/package ... 86-1ab.log

I don't have portaudio installed, try to disable it with a configure option re remove it from the system

Now, Salix runs happily also on an Acer Extensa 5230E:
Intel(R) Celeron(R) M900 inside(TM) (2,2 GHz, 800 MHz FSB, 1 MB L2 cache),
Mobile Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator 4500M,
1 GB DDR2 (future 3 GB)

EDIT: And yes, WiFi works out of the box!
Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)

I have salix running in my laptop, an Acer Aspire 4535
it runs really good and the wifi works out of the box
the only problem is that the ethernet connector doesn't work, a friend of mine with the same model has ubuntu on it and the ethernet works fine, so I guess it is a kernel version issue
the ethernet connector is not a show stopper for me so I'm ok with it