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So figured I should say Hi to all.

New to Salix. Been using Debian for around 3 years now and decided I needed something new to try. Still run Debian on my desktop, but have been playing with Salix on my netbook, getting to know the ins and the outs...what packages I use on my Debian install and seeing if Salix has them in the repos...that sort of thing.

So far so good. Found a few packages that I used in Debian not in Salix, but I'm working my way around them, checking out the forum to see if someone else has requested them and such.

Right now I am testing out the Openbox beta/rc that I got off of the link from the mailing list. Going to check out Fluxbox as well. Long time Xfce and KDE user, but I still have a spot in my heart for WM's.

Hope to have some fun here.

Hi kinslayer and welcome to Salix.

If some of the application you seek are unavailable with slapt-get/gslapt, you can try slapt-src/sourcery instead. It will build the package from source from you. It has a small learning curve but if you read the wiki and search the forum about it, you'll quickly figure it out.

Hi kinslayer,

have fun with Salix
BTW: I did not work on the Openbox beta ISOs since I've posted them to the mailing list for two reasons:
1. lack of time
2. not much feedback at all
But still nice to hear some people are trying it. I probably will improve them and perhaps there will be a final release some day, but I cannot promise. There are already some thing on my ToDo list for that ISOs.

PS: Are you a Nightwish fan?

Thenktor, the Openbox beta passed me by. Could you please also put it on the forum, if it isn't already?

It would also give me a chance to try out ecologically friendly installation methods

Akuna wrote:Hi kinslayer and welcome to Salix.

If some of the application you seek are unavailable with slapt-get/gslapt, you can try slapt-src/sourcery instead. It will build the package from source from you. It has a small learning curve but if you read the wiki and search the forum about it, you'll quickly figure it out.

Thanks for the info Akuna. I'll read up on that and perhaps give it a shot later on today.

thenktor wrote:Hi kinslayer,

have fun with Salix
BTW: I did not work on the Openbox beta ISOs since I've posted them to the mailing list for two reasons:
1. lack of time
2. not much feedback at all
But still nice to hear some people are trying it. I probably will improve them and perhaps there will be a final release some day, but I cannot promise. There are already some thing on my ToDo list for that ISOs.

PS: Are you a Nightwish fan?

thenktor, if you are looking for feedback still, I can provide some. I may not be a very big "power user" compared to some, but I do know my way around Openbox pretty well so I know what to look for.

And no, I can't say I have heard of Nightwish.

Of course all feedback is still welcome Prefered to the ML thread, but you also can send me a PM oder post here.

Thanks Thenktor. Download completed, I'm looking forward to giving it a try.

Btw what is the ML thread?

mimosa wrote:Btw what is the ML thread?

Mailing List Thread

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/foru ... salix-main

Sorry for the code, couldn't post URL's yet due to low post count.

EDIT by thenktor: changed your code to a link

Thank you both!