Experiences of a software consultant with various Linux distributions

I like reading comments under the posts of my Linux blog . Some of these comments are short. Some of them are extended to several paragraphs...Read more »

SalixOS - The Miracle of Upgrading When It Actually Works

Following on from my previous post on Slackware I have to root for SalixOS here which has almost slipped out of sight over the last two year...Read more »

Slackel, Custom Slackware Current with Newest KDE 4

Just a few days ago I was writing about getting a newer version of KDE 4 with Porteus or from Eric Hameleers' Ktown repository, and I h...Read more »

Three Spins You May Not Have Heard Of

Always on the lookout for something interesting I found three more esoteric spins of major distributions and set out to give them a quick te...Read more »

Is Salix XFCE 13.37 better than 13.1.2?

N obody can argue there are 2 major Desktop Environments now in Linux world: GNOME and KDE take lion part in installed Linux desktop systems...Read more »

SalixOS: older brother of SLAX

My second advent into world of Linux happened somewhere in September 2010. It was so much unusual experience for me that I decided to put my...Read more »

Installing LXDE on Slackware & Salix 13.37

Slackware 13.37 is out. So what do you do if you need or want a light weight desktop environment for an old machine and LXDE is your favorit...Read more »

Salix Xfce 13.37-beta2 - first impressions and screenshots

On 05/04 the second beta of the Salix main Xfce version was made available, and being one of my favorite distributions I just had to give it...Read more »

Time for Slackware 'Leet' and Companions

A new Slackware release is (almost) out, and it's got a rather odd number. Slackware 13.37 proves once again it's a distro from geek...Read more »

Salix OS 13.1.2 "LXDE" Introduces Tool to Easily Install from Source

A few days ago I mentioned Salix OS , a Slackware-based distribution, as one of my top five distributions of 2010. Even at the end of the ye...Read more »

A Tinkerers Top 5 Distributions of 2010

In the last few days we've had several posts about personal top 5 favorite distributions of 2010. Everybody has their own favorites, but...Read more »

Salix OS have released 13.1.2 KDE & KDE Live

On 30/10/2010 the Salix team announced the release of a KDE spin of their latest 13.1.2 offering. This is a boon for everybody whose favor...Read more »

SalixOS 13.1 "Xfce Live" and "LXDE Live" released

Weyhey, if it looked like we´re fast asleep that´s not the case, just travelling moving, and in the process I´ve become less able to update...Read more »

How to get Ralink 2870 wireless USB adapter working in SalixOS/Slackware-13.1

This one has taken me quite a while to find out, with bits of information here and there. Two steps only: Blacklist rt2800usb in your /etc/m...Read more »

How to install ATI graphics driver in SalixOS

I'm not planning to copy the entire SalixOS user  documentation  or  FAQ's , only what's of practical interest as it comes up. ...Read more »

How to upgrade SalixOS 13.0 to 13.1

This is a short guide on how to upgrade your SalixOS to the latest version, 13.1. I'm mirroring the instructions here in case it gets l...Read more »

Linux light - SalixOS 13.1 "LXDE"

After looking at SalixOS 13.0 in my comparison of light weight Slackware derivatives for the desktop I thought I should give 13.1 a full sta...Read more »

More reviews and areas of interest

Hello there, both the reviews on Unity Linux and on Kongoni GNU/Linux were received quite well. Got a lot of reads and even the first commen...Read more »