Logging in and commenting might get me a 13.37 if I’m very nice. A little searching on that page and I find 13.0.2 Salix VDI is available here. has a great selection of free/cheap VDIs, though a touch out of date. It seems one should be able to just use the. My next step is to learn how to create a VirtualBox. The commands seem derived from Vim and one is warned that this is *not* a newbie-friendly distro. Fluxbox, OpenBox, KDE, and Ratpoison editions, until 2016 when Salix 14.2. The idea is that all window management is handled via keyboard, with no mouse interaction required. Salix OS is a multi-purpose Linux distribution based on Slackware. I’ve been playing a little bit with VirtualBox, and in the time allotted last night, did not manage to install Salix, but I’m intrigued by the Ratpoison window manager’s premise. I’ve played around with the first four of these desktops at various times in the last year, but Ratpoison I’d never heard of.

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. Based on 13.37, it comes in five flavours: Xfce, LXDE, Fluxbox, KDE and Ratpoison. Salix OS Ratpoison v.13.37 Advertisement Salix is a linux distribution based on Slackware that is simple, fast and easy to use. Salix is a Slackware derivative I’d never heard of until a day or so ago.

I’m honestly not sure what site I was looking at when I saw a description of Salix RatPoison.

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