Installation and First Look at Salix OS

Salix is a GNU/Linux distribution based on Slackware that is simple, fast and easy to use. Stability being a primary goal of Salix. This distro aims to be small, light and fast. The Salix motto: Linux for the lazy Slacker.
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[@tylerdean980]

Are you ever going to take a look at FreeDOS? Definitely one of those open source OS'es that has had a huge impact but people don't really talk about because nobody uses DOS in the modern era. Great for retro gaming or using legacy hardware and software. When even minimalist Linux is too heavy, DOS is there to run your software.

[@Muhubi]

As a "Linux Casual", I'd be interested in this

[@tylerdean980]

@@Muhubi If you just want to learn more, the main dev of FreeDOS has his own youtube channel where he goes over the included software, games, and shows you how to do some coding on FreeDOS.

[@pauldufresne3650]

Yeah... as a maintainer of FreeDOS's DJGPP packages, I should probably stop listening at those Linux videos and return read the email deciding how to deal with more than 1 bonus CD (because of me) and touch a bit my packages (I did not this month yet).

[@CristianMolina]

Oh, it supports 32bits CPUs, pretty lightweight, seems nice for those old 1gb ram machines. Thanks for sharing, DT!

[@furycd001]

Pidgin is still always one of the first things I install on a new install. I mainly use it for connecting to irc. I know there's probably way better options for chatting on irc, but I like pidgin & I've been using it for that specific purpose for around somewhat 10+ years now. I also still buy all my music as physical cd so asunder is something else I always choose to install....

[@antoniomaccagnan7200]

Exactly my opinion! Pidgin is the very first app I instal on my distros and use it to interact with hundreds of my students (who live on facebook and never speak in class). Without Pidgin wonderful chat management in windows and tabs I would go insane.

[@redname]

Thank you so much Mr. DT. Great video :-)

[@mrzazx3289]

The best thing yu did shouting out for this amazing team of SalixOS. Gapan and his mates. They deserve it. They being working hard to achieve an amazing distro.

[@stefhannington2218]

Looks like a great slackware distro. I have used pure slackware and many others and used to enjoy the long complex setup process but I have to say I now much prefer easy to install distros like your Ubuntu, Manjaro and fedora. It would be good to see an easier to use for beginners slackware distro using the calimares installer.

[@overclucker]

I usually have multiple existing partitions and easy installers freak me out. What's nice about slackware's setup is that its bubba fix nature makes it easy to understand what it's actually doing, so you can skip steps and do it manually if you have different requirements.

[@indoor_vaping]

Neat! I didn't realize distributions still shipped with LILO

[@sprinklednights]

This was the first Linux Distribution that I have found, which is crazy.

[@sillyness3456]

Chicago, Louisianna. Who doesn't know that place? Nice ncurses installer, btw.

[@MrWarneet]

Liking the no Grub or Systemd. Will spin up a VM for a closer look, cheers Derek.

[@shatterstone3045]

I think that, like Slackware, if you choose not to install LILO, it will give you the option to install grub later.

[@folksurvival]

"Claws Mail is not really great" Incorrect, Claws Mail *is* great and one of the best gui email clients there is. Also more secure than Thunderbird.

[@folksurvival]

@@cyberman7348 Thunderbloat.

[@tailsorange2872]

Greetings from Singapore - SURPRISING to see that locale right next to the US' locale...

[@danduby8416]

Salix is my new favorite distro, and I said the other day when I saw your XFCE tier list video, that I would put it in the great category.

[@RHTORAS]

LXDE is not dead. Also writing whereis systemD does not show you init system. IN most systemD free distro typing this shows results even if not components are used. There is fakesystemctl to trick apps need systemD. To check init system type: ```ps -p 1``` on a terminal. I wish you could show us slackbuilds in this distro.

[@themroc8231]

Hey DT! The guys who used to do Sabayon Linux just released version 1.0 of the new gentoo-based distro they've been working at for like 2 years now, Mocaccino OS. I thought you might be interested in doing a review as you don't usually do Gentoo content and from what i see i think they could really use a hand making their work known.

[@13thravenpurple94]

Great work Thank youuu

[@usernamejp]

To check what init is running at pid 1, you can use: "ps -efo comm= -p 1"

[@y0uCantHandle]

Quite nostalgic

[@margaritaesteves2222]

awesome

[@jamielambrecht9419]

Meld is the GOAT.. its the only diffing program I have found where you can just paste stuff in it without saving... I use VS Code with temp files at work (very much required to use windows) but i really just want a diffing program where I can just paste stuff in on the fly

[@aleddy437]

I use numlockx to control the numlock key. Add it to the startup menu with 'numlockx on' and then if needed, turn off by 'numlockx off' from terminal.

[@antoniomaccagnan7200]

It would have been interesting to look into what packages come in the more minimalistic .iso and also test installing packages with gslap from the command line.

[@divootiroll7409]

Does the "AUTOINSTALL" imply that SALIX has an "Erase Disk and Install the OS using the whole drive"-option if it would be installed on bare metal/real PCs?

[@robsku1]

Heh, having become somewhat of a laptop user I generally don't like to have numlock enabled by default, except on actual desktop PC with full-size keyboard... But having had my main laptop in a docking station for couple months now, and using a wireless keyboard with a numpad, I almost configured the login manager to turn numpad automatically on at boot - I installed an app called 'numlockx', which it would have required, before I remembered that I was actually configuring my laptop, and that was not something that I'd like to happen on boot by default :)

[@sweep-]

Hey DT. Can you go over what makes Main line versions of Linux distros different to each other (like Arch compared to Slackware)? It can't just be all about the package manager...

[@marsdrums6298]

It pretty much is. I used to have 10 or so VMs on a server and I used different distros for but I would install Cinnamon on all of them. I used Linux Mint as the base line model and set them all up to look like Linux Mint and it worked rather well and was an interesting experiment. The only thing different for the most part was the package manager. Everything was pretty much available software wise. I just had to use different package managers to get things installed. Gentoo and Arch were pretty easy to make look like Linux Mint because, installing everything by hand was required. Things like Slackware had a bunch of tools already so it had Mint Plus on it. A couple were like that as I recall.

[@Anonymous4045]

What defines a distro is a pretty loose term tbh. When broken down, essentially all arch, for example, is is some documentation, the repositories, and a slightly preconfigured collection of other software (an init system, the kernel, etc.). So aside from setup and documentation, I'd say yeah, all a distro is is the package manager/repositories it enables. The rest is just how much it preconfigures the software and what software it initially comes with

[@Mantikal]

I tried installing this over a used drive - which had windows previously on it. I thought that it would just be wiped out and written over by this installation. Well, it didn't work out. The install process detected the ntfs and fat 32 partitions and pointed them out and asked if I wanted to include them. I said "no" and thought they would just be written over. The installation failed to install the LILO boot manager because of that. It installed everything else except that. The take away - if you're planning on using and already used drive for this, make sure to low-level format it before starting - or just get a brand new drive. That's when I had a successful install.

[@sunriseleatherco.6587]

That install brought back memories. Not all of them good lmao

[@marsdrums6298]

Mine was on a CD... but I had to make floppies from that CD... Not a fun task. I bought that at a computer show, read the back and it stated that it had compressed floppies on it. So I grabbed a box of 100 floppies as well.

[@muchospantaloons]

slackware used to let us choose some weird console fonts at install .. i wonder if salix has that in case we chose "core"

[@phonewithoutquestion80]

The "strong and complicated password" meme being blocked is a PEBKAC error.

[@Nixima81]

Like it. Don't like the installer but the rest looks grate.

[@ArniesTech]

Gotta have some serious guts to base Off of Slackware 😎

[@abhinavsood3571]

Man...what camera are you using...the vid is on 360p but am experiencing 60 fps..

[@shitbukkake]

Does anyone know if Salix's installer gives the option of a LUKS-encrypted installation? I can't afford not to have that. It looks pretty slick, I do wanna try it

[@Firetech2004]

Hey there! Any way to install guix on my laptop. I have a non free Wi-Fi driver

[@tylerdean980]

you can install any software on any distro, but from what I understand the libre distros give you more hoops to jump through, because they assume that you're not wanting proprietary software if you're running a FSF approved distro. You probably could get it working, but it would be a big hassle, you'd probably have to maintain your own kernel with the firmware loaded in it, since these distros are all shipping the libre kernel.

[@rockymargunee9064]

Package Manager..Hello DT how to use update or install in the terminal of salix I mean other than using the package manager Gslapt

[@serge5046]

From the terminal as root: slapt-get --update or slapt-get --install (replace package with the name of an existing package without the )

[@SlyPearTree]

I am an ex Slackware user and I have heard of Salix but never tried it. Watching this I was thinking of trying it an a vm but on second thought I'll check how it does on my old Aspire One netbook compared to the Linux Mint Xfce that's on it.

[@overclucker]

Slackware and Salix both work well on my aspire one. 32 bit is still fully supported, and I've had no issues with sleep or hibernate.

[@SlyPearTree]

@@overclucker I think they might have made several version of the Aspire One, mine has the 64 bits Intel Atom Processor N450. I did think it was 32 bits for a long time, it's possible it had a 32 bit version of windows on it when I bought it, I do not remember. In any case, after installing Salix on it without any issue I decided to install Slackware instead, I'm not sure why. I did full install and then an update which took a while on that slow machine, after that I was tired so decided to continue tomorrow. I haven't even tried to get into the gui (I set it to Xfce) yet. I did not think I'd still enjoy such an hands-on distro, I was wrong, heck I'm wondering if I might install it on my main machine.

[@overclucker]

@@SlyPearTree Slackware is underappreciated, that's for sure. For example, it should be the OS of choice for a rural/off-grid/grid-down/doomsday situation because of its kitchen sink included philosophy.

[@lilith1504]

@@SlyPearTree I got your point when almost Slack users wanna back to their base. Salix just make Slack-installer simpler and they use pkgtools as default. Btw with Slackware, you make almost everything in your system, so almost ppl want it run at the purest level.

[@ShaunakHub]

I did not even know that LILO was still used exclusively by and distro.

[@TurntableTV]

Nobara Project next, please!

[@marsdrums6298]

For the password... couldn't you just go into the CLI, type 'passwd' under your user account and change the password to what you want? I do remember having to make a longer password for a distro (I think it too might have been Slackware based) and I just went into the CLI and changed the password. It didn't care that it wasn't 6 characters long.

[@katherine205]

I'm trying to open it up as I type tNice tutorials. I'm lost right now and my opening screen looks notNice tutorialng like Nice tutorials. Can anyone help?

[@espolete]

It made me remind installing a distro 20 years ago. Certainly not for me.

[@chrismacaber4531]

For passwords and remembering them...wasn't there once a thing called password managers? 😉

[@taidee]

He prefers his dt password for VMs since he is going to destroy them later. I also don't use complex passwords for the test VM of which I have quite a number.

[@marsdrums6298]

I think my earlier suggestion to DT will work. Go into the CLI and change the password there with 'passwd'. It doesn't care if you use 2 or 20 characters.

[@avalagum7957]

Salix installation looks like something from 10 years ago. And 10GB disk requirement sounds like Windows.

[@N0zer0]

Just change the password after installation using the passwd command.

[@ashelred]

You should write the password on paper so you can remember it.

[@lilith1504]

I can't stop laughing when he typed whereis systemd. Then when he realized that he can't use systemctl, it look hilarious. Salix was born for more-lazy Slackware users. That doesn't mean you can play with it like you do with thousand Ubuntu plague

[@momomaniac1234]

Hey DT Look at Alpine Linux

[@MrAbdomatrix]

can u review steam linux os

[@ananon5771]

due to being tied to steam (which he has a rule on not endorsing proprietary software), he probably won't.

[@leafheadza]

It didn't find systemctl because you weren't root.

[@exnihilonihilfit6316]

it's not systemd

[@exnihilonihilfit6316]

*Mousepad* sucks because its scrollbar doesn't go all the way to the right edge of the screen when maximized (like, say, Firefox, Sublime Text) so you have to go with the mouse pointer to the rightmost first, then move it back a little to be able to scroll. UNACCEPTABLE! I can't believe that phenomenon still exists in this day and age...

[@dimaur3697]

anyone still use libre office?

[@itsfish8672]

GVDT

[@ivomagalhaes1]

forget flatpak

[@SteveMacSticky]

Shame, you musta scared off the billions of Windoze users who think this is a typical Linux install 😂😀😀

[@bigmikeobama5314]

Frist

[@bigmikeobama5314]

that still counts, right?

[@JasperVGuitar]

@@bigmikeobama5314 second

[@folksurvival]

@@bigmikeobama5314 Fird.

[@zamanibulose2065]

This looks like Windows XP

[@Subzearo]

10th

[@milohoffman274]

Meh, systemd works, systemd is good, systemd is now the standard on all serious distros, avoiding it for no reason is pointless.

[@folksurvival]

Well there _are_ plenty of reasons.

[@iamlinux]

@@folksurvival such as ?

[@lobotomizedjellyfish2171]

@@iamlinux Next up Emacs vs Vim fight! Lol

[@folksurvival]

@@iamlinux Such as those that are explained in detail on numerous websites. Just because you choose to ignore information doesn't mean that information doesn't exist.

[@hexisXz]

hey DT you should try ps-lookup you can install it from the aur i am pretty sure i said this in your live stream a couple times and my comments got removed because mods thought i was spamming but i wasn't my internet is really bad so it sent like 30 times 😂 sorry about that but just wanted to see your opinion on the program.