Came across SalineOS-1.0 last week. It is an Xfce distro based on Squeeze with backports and security updates. The aim is stability and up-to-date apps. I am using the 32-bit version; there is a 64-bit version as well.

Time will tell, but it is performing very well on a P4 desktop and an EeePC-1005HA netbook. It is Debian testing in deep freeze, after all.

Ran smxi on both, installed Liquorix kernels, .4 and then yesterday .5, although I have had no problems with .4. Installed skype, g-earth, mozilla tweaks even though I preferentially use chromium, and a few others. Testing LibOffice rc4, waiting for it to get stable enough to use daily.

Only hitch I found was the built in AutoUpdate runs "aptitude clean" after each run, which removed all the debs. I like to keep them on the desktop in order to copy /var/cache/apt/archives/* to a USB memory to avoid redownloading.
Caveat: use aptitude instead of AutoUpdate (or edit the script to autoclean).

I've heard lots of stories about backports but will be running this for a while to see if it is viable. I've done rolling and it was fun; though sometimes nerve-wracking. Until or if we ever have a continually usable testing, this seems to provide a reliable and useful system.

saludos,
Richard.
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I have the 64 bit version running. Very positive first impression. If a person likes Ddebian and Xfce this bears looking at. Very different than aptosid Xfce in that Saline apparently wants to aim at stability rather than "hot n spicy."

sgfxi comes with it. smxi can be installed and it will work well as Richard reports. Saline has its own "autoupdate button on the desktop which appears to do what "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" would do. Might be wrong about that, but it seems so.

One thought: The installer is by Remastersys. It works well, but walk through or read before doing.

In any event SalineOS is an attractive and promising effort.
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I'm sure you could make it "hot n' spicy" if you want just by pointing the debian repos to Sid

While I haven't tried out SalineOS, a distro based on Testing sounds good where you get between stable and "cutting edge" and with fewer bugs as most of them get pounded out via Sid
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I agree DeepDayze. Saline is intriguing for just that reason and I have to admit it does look nice.

At the moment I am playing with antiX base and finding it a good project.

Where does Saline possibly fit? Well I run aptosid-Xfce. Pretty it ain't. Now if we do as you suggest we just might have something interesting.

Good stuff and thank you!
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hi

came across it at DW and this page
salinelinux.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=newuser&action=display&thread=206

mention of

Sgfxi stub installer to get the newest version of sgfxi and install proprietary graphics drivers.

I hope they can offer some support to Techadmin for this feature.
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I assume they grabbed the stub-installer from svn, read the directions on the top, in the top comment header, and used it, exactly as it's designed to be used.

Nice to see that apparently I have finally got enough documentation written right into the stub file itself so anyone can use it without having to ask for help, that's good.
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I can ditto all the above. Installed SalineOS, then converted sources.list to testing, ran smxi for a full dist-upgrade then installed the latest liquorix kernel and finally did the nvidia driver install using sgfxi with some special instructions from h2 per the "LMDE Grief" thread. All went well and so far it is working a charm. Of course with testing, who knows how long the bliss will last but it does make some things easier. It is a nicely crafted distro with some really nice features even if I felt compelled to leave behind the stability the dev promises.

I've got a lot of time invested in this desktop now so I probably won't change anything soon but I wonder how the new Kanotix looks...will wait until I get VBox downloaded and working to try it out.

Really nice to have the "Suspend" feature working again. It didn't work in LMDE 2011, Squeeze or SalineOS but the liquorix kernel seems to have fixed it.
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