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Bald Patches wrote:I always logon as root in Slack but in Salix I can only Su in a terminal when I want to install something.
So... Is Salix simply Slack in a new dress or is it different at a more fundamental level???

Nothing fundamental. If you wish to login in as root in Xfce, which is definitely *not* recommended, you simply have to activate a parameter (a simple check) in GDM connection configuration utility to allow administrator connection(this is deactivated by default in Salix).

Look in the menu under /system/window connection (or something like that, I'm not using an English environment)
Then under the tab: Security

Bald Patches wrote:I always logon as root in Slack

If by "logon as root" you mean in a virtual console, then who's stopping you? If on the other hand you mean login as root in a graphical environment, stop doing that. Seriously.

Bald Patches wrote:but in Salix I can only Su in a terminal when I want to install something.

What you meant to write was "but in Salix I don't know how to login as root". In which case my response is you shouldn't do it anyway.

Bald Patches wrote:So... Is Salix simply Slack in a new dress or is it different at a more fundamental level???

If by "fundamental level" you mean it's not allowed to log in as root into a graphical environment, protecting unaware users from their own newbieness, then sure it is.

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