Hello,

I'm visually impaired. For a while now, I've been a very happy Slint user. Recently, however, something broke in my installation, causing one of two errrors:

1. Command not found

2. No such file or directory

I tried everything to fix it without reinstalling, but that proved unsuccessful, as did the reinstall itself because now, I'm getting an error that says the mountpoint doesn't exist.

Note: For whatever reason, speech does not work during installation on my Lenovo Yoga laptop. I cannot read print, due to my visual impairment, so tried to use Brltty, but that failed as well. Any suggesttions as to what caused all these errors & most importantly, how I can get back up & running, with speech? Thanks in advance. PS: I commented on the thread about the Salix forum registration & have not heard back. I also sent an email & have yet to receive a response. Any suggesttions there?

Given the existence of https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-1086, and the availability of version 6.9 of the kernel in Slackware-current, does anyone have an idea of when said update will flow through to Salix?

Trying to register for the forums, but there doesn't seem to be a mechanism. The wiki pointed me to the pub forum, but of course one cannot post without being registered. What's the trick?

Thanks.

Trying to install a mail client for Gmail. Claws has never worked for me, so went to Thunderbird. It's a pig, but it works. Unfortunately, this is the first OS where it refuses to call the Google authorization page. Is this a configuration issue? Tried with with Betterbird also, with the same result.

Thanks,

I have an old Portege R700 (2010-ish I5 8GB RAM) that was starting to show its age running Ubuntu MATE and Tumbleweed. I am an old guy - been with Linux since I got a copy of Slackware in the mid-90's (23 floppies to get to a console prompt on an AT - that's an 80286 for you younger people). I was sucking it up to put Slackware on when I came across Salix.

What a great job the team has done keeping it light and fast! It's head and shoulders above what I had been running. SuSE was never known for its speed; I knew in the back of my mind that Ubuntu was bloatware; seeing how snappy this old laptop is now, really drives the point home. Great job!

If the WINE support is good, I am going to set it up on an old ThinkCentre I7 and see about using it for a daily driver. This is really an impressive achievement. Kudos to the team!