Salix OS
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 Salix OS | |
| Developer | Pierrick Le Brun, Thorsten Mühlfelder, Markus Muttilainen, Cyrille Pontvieux, Tomoki Tsuchiya, George Vlahavas and others[1] |
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| OS family | Unix-like |
| Working state | Current |
| Source model | Open source |
| Default user interface | Xfce |
| License | Various |
| Official website | www.salixos.org |
Salix OS is a Linux distribution. It is based on Slackware and aims to be multi-purpose by focusing on Internet applications, multimedia and programming tools. Additionally, Salix OS comes with some multilingual admin tools.
Goals
Salix OS aims to be simple, fast and easy to use. Salix is also fully backwards compatible with Slackware, so Slackware users can benefit from Salix repositories, which they can use as an "extra" quality source of software for their favorite distribution.[2][citation needed]
Package management
Salix OS uses the slapt-get package management tool. It provides the main functionalities of the apt-get variety of package managers. It uses Slackware's .tgz/.txz package format, but adds dependency resolution capabilities. The system uses meta files (.dep files) to provide dependency information, as well as package description during the install process. Gslapt provides a GUI frontend with similar capabilities.
One of Salix main goals is providing package compatibility with Slackware.
Supported architectures
Salix OS offers 2 versions: The first one is built and optimized for the i486/i686 architecture. The second one is made for the x86-64 architecture.
| version | date |
|---|---|
| Salix OS 13.0 | September 16, 2009 |
| Salix OS 13.0.1 | November 2, 2009 |
| Salix OS 13.0.2 | December 23, 2009 |
| Salix Live 13.0 | April 8, 2010 |
