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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><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 dependency information, as well as package description during the install process. ''Gslapt'' provides a GUI frontend with similar capabilities.

One of Salix main goals is providing package compatibility with Slackware<ref>[http://www.salixos.org/wiki/index.php/Home Salix Homepage]</ref>.

==Supported architectures==
Salix OS offers 2 versions: The first one is built and optimized for the [[i486]]/[[i686]] architecture. The second one is made for the [[x86-64]] architecture.<ref>[http://www.salixos.org/wiki/index.php/Home Salix Homepage]</ref><ref>[http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=salix Salix Distrowatch page]</ref>

{| class=toccolours align=right style="margin-left: 1em;"
|+ Salix OS release history
|-
! version
! date
|-
|Salix OS 13.0
|September 16, 2009
|-
|Salix OS 13.0.1
|November 2, 2009
|-
|Salix OS 13.0.2
|December 23, 2009
|-
|Salix Live 13.0
|April 8, 2010
|-
|}

==See also==
{{Portal|Free software}}
* [[Slackware]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.salixos.org/ Official website]
* {{DistroWatch|salix|NAME=Salix OS}}

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