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Hello everyone. Congratulations to the developers for a great Slackware based Linux distribution. Slackware was my second distro after redhat back in the 1990's. I am trying Salix because I only have a cdrom writer and don't want to download multiple iso images for a complete install of Slackware. I am coming from a Debian background.

1. Are the Gslapt and Slackpkg package managers compatible? Will they conflict in some way? As far as I can tell, gslapt-get is the cli (command line interface) of gslapt and slackpkg is the cli of pkgtool.

2. Why the name Salix? Just curious...

Thanks

werner wrote:Hello everyone. Congratulations to the developers for a great Slackware based Linux distribution. Slackware was my second distro after redhat back in the 1990's. I am trying Salix because I only have a cdrom writer and don't want to download multiple iso images for a complete install of Slackware. I am coming from a Debian background.

Welcome to the Slackware world again

1. Are the Gslapt and Slackpkg package managers compatible? Will they conflict in some way? As far as I can tell, gslapt-get is the cli (command line interface) of gslapt and slackpkg is the cli of pkgtool.

gslapt is the GUI of slapt-get.
slackpkg is another tool like slapt-get.
pkgtool is some kind of CLI for installpkg, removepkg and upgradepkg.

2. Why the name Salix? Just curious...

Because we liked it in our "find a name thread"