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What does SalineOS offer that others dont?
« Thread Started on Apr 3, 2011, 6:09pm »

Hi Guys,

I've seen a few distros around and have done some general installs of the various flavours.

Just curious as to what is it about SalineOS that seperates this Distro from the other Debian flavours?

thanks again for a great website and forum....

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Re: What does SalineOS offer that others dont?
« Reply #1 on Apr 3, 2011, 7:07pm »

Apr 3, 2011, 6:09pm, aussieaubs wrote:

In a word: "Speed" In setup, in the way it accesses the applications and acts on the Internet and the way it is built from scratch in Debian with just Xfce in mind. Welcome to our Forum.

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Re: What does SalineOS offer that others dont?
« Reply #2 on Apr 3, 2011, 7:08pm »

It offers pure (or almost pure) debian to the ones that can't easily configure debian for themselves.

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Re: What does SalineOS offer that others dont?
« Reply #3 on Apr 3, 2011, 7:25pm »

To each his own, or something for everybody.

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Re: What does SalineOS offer that others dont?
« Reply #4 on Apr 3, 2011, 8:49pm »

Far as I am aware, SalineOS is the only distribution to offer automatic updates using the official Debian backports repository. Most Debian based distros are based on testing or Sid. The user manual is a good read to find out what is included with SalineOS, you can download it in pdf format here: http://www.salineos.com/Downloads/UserManual.pdf

This post also has more information on the subject: http://salinelinux.proboards.com/index.c....play&thread=206

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Re: What does SalineOS offer that others dont?
« Reply #5 on Apr 3, 2011, 9:29pm »

Ahh thanks guys. Thats great to hear....downloading now to give it a testdrive.

Autoupdates, speed and the rest are good enough reasons for me to try it out.

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Re: What does SalineOS offer that others dont?
« Reply #6 on Apr 3, 2011, 11:48pm »

Just found this online..... http://linuxblog.darkduck.com/2011/02/easy-as-mouse-quick-as-thought.html

Do you think its accurate?
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Re: What does SalineOS offer that others dont?
« Reply #7 on Apr 4, 2011, 12:17am »

I think burn and install.
I've been running Debian bases since Stormix.
This is the best thing I've seen in over a dozen years. Xandros was fantastic too.
Mint and Vector remain high on my list.
Saline, for me, is #1. I've " built my own" many times. Anthony made a one click HotRod.
READ THE USERS MANUAL/.PDF.
Enjoy the ride.

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Re: What does SalineOS offer that others dont?
« Reply #8 on Apr 4, 2011, 4:39am »

Welcome aussieaubs,

SalineOS is, by my experience, a Debian Squeeze+backports you can install without stress in less than ten minutes.
After, it's a true rock solid.

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Re: What does SalineOS offer that others dont?
« Reply #9 on Apr 8, 2011, 2:08pm »

It offers a hybrid syslinux iso image for memstick booting. Nice for netbooks and the like w/o optical drives. Its not the only distro that does, but it and crunchbang are the only debspins I've found that do.

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