Just wanted to say hi and to say what an amazing distro this is and just to thank you for all the hard work you guys are doing! Wow, truly awesome!
Just to give you a brief history of my Linux experience, I started using Ubuntu about 4 months ago and within a week I removed Windows of my laptop and went with a full installation of Ubuntu. In fact, I am still using it but I think I am going to shift to Salix in the near future. My reason for trying out other distros was out of sheer curiosity as I started delving deeper and deeper into the world of Linux and also, I have noted a few annoying little glitches with Ubuntu (it has not been very stable for me, although in all fairness it could be hardware related? Most of the time it works very well but "Unity" is a definite disappointment for me and also to most users judging by the forum outcry). I was very interested in Slackware but I was scared due to the non "Noob" nature of it.
I decided that I wanted to get my old P4 setup at home as a server (I am in the process of that) and I installed FreeBsd with horrible results! I tried building KDE but it took days and for some reason my 20 gig drive became full then I couldn't finish with it? Not sure what I did wrong, it also kept asking me question after question about stuff I didn't know the answers too. Eventually I gave up and decided to remove it and install Ubuntu Server, with the LXDE desktop environment (I was proud of the fact I managed to get it up and running) but for some reason my mouse would work and then it wouldn't and the system seemed very unstable. I then removed that too.
This brings me to Salinx. What attracted me first off was the Bonsai logo (incidentally I came across Salix by sheer accident) and because I am a keen Bonsai grower by hobby, I decided to give it a go but what impressed me the most is its close relationship to Slackware, as someone put it, Salix is a slackers Slackware
I thought that was cool. Also the whole presentation is very professional!I am in the beginning stages but so far I am most impressed! I downloaded the latest LXDE version and it seems to be running well on the old girl at the moment
I am liking it more and more so a big thank you to all the guys who have contributed to this great build and of course for making it freely available for us! You guys rock
I am enjoying working with this distro very much
All the best
NanoSurfer
