Well, vbox took a dive on me. When I get the motivation, I'll be setting aside a new partition for Salix. Earlier someone asked why the freaky wm... The short answer would be raw speed and a distaste for using the mouse/trackpad. I'll probably start working on it tomorrow. Following the input so far...

I could be wrong but in order to build awesome you have to rebuild a couple of slackware packages. Rebuilding of packages that come from slackware is a no-no for the salix developers so I doubt that there will be an awesomewm package in the repos anytime soon If you want a tiling window manager you...

Run this on both systems.

Thanks for the links and the welcome. I'm going to like this place, everyone is pretty laid back. As far as the build process goes, that's going to be the fun part for me. My Slack-Foo is pretty rusty as it's been a few years. I reviewed the links but didn't see anything to get me started. The best ...

I've been using awesome wm in debian for some time- currently at version 3.4.6 in Testing. Reviewing the projects home page shows there has been some success building under Slackware 13, however it is unclear exactly what the dependencies are from their documentation. The projects home page is locat...

Hi everyone. I'm new to Salix, but have been 100% linux for a long time. Running Salix LXDE and really enjoying it. Thanks for the great work, devs and packagers.