I'm Marĉjo, a relatively new Salix addict!Since I'm not sure what else an introduction on a forum really ought to entail, here's some background on me and what I've been up to with Salix.
I've been a Linux-er for about 2.5 years, a Salix-er for about 10 months, and an under-the-radar packager for a few weeks now. I cut my teeth on variants of Ubuntu and Mint, but eventually I was left bored by the lack of ingenuity involved in running *buntu... it probably doesn't help that I don't have much interest in figuring out the ins and outs of .deb packaging. The simplicity of Slack and Salix's .txz packages just has a lot more appeal; I'm pretty addicted to slkbuild at this point.
I've been working (albeit very slowly) on creating packages to bring my desktop rig (running Xfce on 14.1) more in line with my audio machine, which is running DreamStudio 12.04, a *buntu spin chock full of software for creative (semi-)professionals. The desktop also ran DS for quite a while, but just seeing how Salix performs in comparison on this machine, makes me anticipate that the whole music-making experience will run much more smoothly on a Slack base. So far, I'm only just beginning to write the slkbuilds for wine-rt (wine patched for realtime scheduling) and a low-latency (as opposed to "proper" realtime) kernel. I intend to follow these with hydrogen, yoshimi, and other plugins found in DS that I've really come to enjoy. If anyone's interested to see what I've got or jump in to help, I'd be more than excited to have collaborators on this. I'm especially skeptical that my kernel slkbuild will come out quite right.
I've been working less slowly on getting my first-ever server set up, and in fact much of the rest of today is going to towards getting those packages ready as well. This will include Metronome IM (a fork of Prosody optimized for the Jappix web client) and updated versions of its dependencies, most of them Lua libraries; InspIRCd, one of the better-known and supported daemons out there right now from what I can tell; and maybe, possibly, perchance my own phpBB installation, just for kicks. This is all going to be installed on a fairly agéd single-core machine, so I can't exactly go nuts. Again, slkbuilds are freely available for interested parties. Criticism and suggestions for improvement are always appreciated!
Anyway, suffice it to say that I've come out of the gate with a good deal of ambition to contribute something of value to Salix. That said, I've got a lot of questions already, and I am definitely a bit of a noob with respect to some of the things I'm tackling, so bear with me. I'm usually good about hunting down answers without a lot of guidance, but I'm sure I'll have plenty of stupid questions along the way.
I've enjoyed using Salix for a couple of years now, and it has performed very reliably for me. I'm sure that the development team would be grateful for any packages you can contribute.
