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{{Infobox OS
| name = Salix OS
| logo = [[Image:Salixos-logo.png|250px]]
| screenshot = [[Image:Salixos-13.png|250px|Screenshot of Salix OS 13.0]]
| caption = Salix OS
| developer = Pierrick Le Brun, Thorsten Mühlfelder, Markus Muttilainen, Cyrille Pontvieux, Tomoki Tsuchiya, George Vlahavas and others<ref>[http://www.salixos.org/wiki/index.php/Salix_OS:Team Salix OS team page]</ref>
| family = [[Unix-like]]
| source_model = [[Open source]]
| working_state = Current
| ui = [[Xfce]]
| license = Various
| website = [http://www.salixos.org/ 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.<ref>[http://www.linuxexpres.cz/rozhovor/interview-with-developers-of-salix-os Interview with developers]</ref>{{Citation needed|reliable source|date=May 2010}}<ref>[http://www.salixos.org/wiki/index.php/Home Salix Homepage]</ref><ref>[http://humanreadable.nfshost.com/journal/2009-036.htm Salix review at Human Readable]</ref>

== Package management ==
Salix OS uses the [[slapt-get]] [[package management]] tool. It provides the main functionalities of the [[apt-get]] variety of package managers<ref>[http://software.jaos.org/ slapt-get homepage]</ref>. It uses Slackware's .tgz/.txz package format, but adds dependency resolution capabilities<ref>[http://software.jaos.org/git/slapt-get/plain/FAQ.html#slgFAQ10 slapt-get package dependencies FAQ]</ref>. The system uses meta files (.dep files) to provide d(contracted; show full)
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