[ Thanks to Caitlyn Martin for this link.
]
“Currently all five editions are available on a single CD sized
ISO image with an ncurses-based installer. Salix Live, the live CD
edition, is still in beta and is not included in this review. The
fact that neither the Xfce nor the KDE editions use the latest and
greatest versions of their respective desktop environments reflects
the rather conservative approach that both Slackware and Salix OS
have generally taken on what they package. Both often avoid the
leading edge and certainly the bleeding edge in favor of
stability.“I used the same two systems I used for my review of Salix OS
13.1.1 last year. The first is an eMachines EL-1300G
small-footprint desktop sporting an AMD Athlon 2650e processor
(single core, 1.6 GHz CPU with 512K L2 cache), NVIDIA GeForce
6150SE integrated graphics chipset and a 160 GB 7200rpm SATA2 hard
drive. I ran the native 64-bit code of the four desktop editions I
tested on this system. I also used my HP Mini 110 netbook which
features a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom N270 processor, 2 GB RAM, an on-board
Intel GMA 950 graphics chipset, and a 16 GB SSD in lieu of a hard
drive. Four 32-bit editions have been installed and tested on the
netbook but due to the limited storage I was unable to test them
side by side as I did on the desktop. The use of identical systems
should guarantee that all my comparisons to the previous release
are apples to apples.”