The ISO image in this directory:
https://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-15.0/slintsalix/
allows to install a slightly customized and pre-configured Salix64-15.0.

The installer is nearly identical to the one used to install as Slint64-15.0
system, as described in:
https://slint.fr/en/HandBook.html#_install_slint

The installation of Salix can be done in the same languages as Slint.
At time of writing:
English (USA)
Dutch
French
German
Greek
Italian
Portuguese (Portugal)
Russian
Swedish

This ISO and the installer it includes provides additional features:
- The installer as the installed system are accessible in text mode (in a tty) to blind people using
  a refreshable Braille device or hardware or software synthesizer.
- The installer gives the choice between manual or automatic partitioning.
- The installer can set a zstd compressed BTRFS system with subvolumes for / and /home in the same
  partition. Thus the installed system uses less than 5G of space on disk.
- The installer can encrypt the root partition without resorting to LVM.
- The installer allows to easily install Salix in a removable drive, like an USB stick.
- The installer sets swap in zram, allowing to use in the installed system twice the physical RAM.
- In the installer as the installed system have a recent LTS kernel (version 6.12.47 at time of
  writing allowing to install or fairly recent hardware.
- If it can set an internet connection the installer gets from remote repositories the most packages.
  
Most of the information in https://slint.fr/en/HandBook.html#_install_slint applies to Salix.

The added features of the installed system are detailed in:
https://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-15.0/slintsalix/FEATURES

WARNING: Some included packages coming from a Slint repository should not be replaced running
slapt-get --upgrade. To avoid that You can just edit the file /etc/slapt-get/slapt-getrc to replace
the line beginning with EXCLUDE= by this one:
EXCLUDE=^aaa_elflibs,^aaa_base,^devs,^glibc.*,^kernel-.*,^rootuser-settings,^zzz-settings.*,-i?86-,brltty,btrfs-progs,espeakup,grub,intel-microcode,swapinzram

Limitations and known issues at time of writing:
- This installer is available in less languages than the genuine Salix one.
- The installer allows to do install all sets of packages. A more modular approach could be
  implemented if there is an interest (like core, basic of full).
- When booting in text mode (aka runlevel 3) you need to press Enter after the last message
  displayed to log in.
- The package libostree from Salix (replaced by ostree from Slint) should be blacklisted in
  /etc/slapt-get/slapt-getrc because it installs the file /etc/dracut.conf.d/ostree.conf whose
  presence make dracut fail.
- /etc/rc.d/rc.thinkfan is made non executable by default because starting thinkfan make it
  complain about the lack of /etc/thikfan.conf
  
This installer and the installed system are not endorsed by Salix.

Use at your own risks.

Have fun!

Document last updated on 15 September 2025