Saline OS (Debian Squeeze)

I've been using this long enough to give it a shout out and a big thumbs UP

It uses Xfce as the default DE, but Gnome can be substituted cleanly and easily if you desire.

It comes in 32 and 64 bit flavors.

Xfce 4.8 will be backported eventually by the dev, A. Nordquist.

It's the only distro that, with the Liqourix Kernel, I can have all of my laptop functions working properly such as Hibernate/Suspend and it be rock solid.

Join us over at the forums (joutlan) and see what it's all about.

That's about the best I can shill a new distro... ...If you like LMDE or Statler, you'll probably like this one. FWIW

 

hm i may have to check it out. I'm kinda between distros right now. mint started acting buggy so ive been doing some hopping.

 

I made the decision to go with this one because is stays with squeeze rather than testing. It's very 'pure' so to speak with Debian....Mepis trots off the beaten path too much for me

 

Wait, what? Seriously, I believe things like that can be done with all linux distros with some effort.

 

I was told by a kernel maintainer I need dma remapping turned on in the kernel, and the kernel has to support it. I can not get it working with the stock Saline (Squeeze) kernel with "intel_iommu=on" as a boot option. The latest Liquorix Kernel, yes. That's my extent of knowledge on the subject. Tux on Ice doesn't do it for this laptop either

I'm waiting on a backported Squeeze kernel which will be pushed through to Saline I'm told, then try that.

 

well something happened to my download of saline. I came home hoping to install it on the laptop and the download had crapped out and died for some reason. I'm torrent downloading it now so hopefully can play with it tomorrow. I'll also continue seeding for a while since there weren't that many seeds.

Whats the best way to install gnome on it?

 

What I did for gnome was install "gnome" from the repo; not "too" much cruft there.....then I did a search for gnome in the repos and found a couple of things I still needed to install. You'll want GDM3 for example which, when you install it, will ask which login manager you want, gdm3 or slim so that takes care of itself.

Once I got a complete gnome DE, I went and uninstalled the xfce stuff which really wasn't a heck of a lot. Very clean transition since its basically gtk to gtk.

EDIT: I'm going to redownload Saline x64 to set up a seed for it....should have been doing that anyway

 

I'm seeding the distro and requested other seeders from salinelinux.proboards.com until he gets his mirrors moved around.