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Salix Xfce and Twitter maintenance

Linux activity
I loaded Salix Xfce 13.1.2 to my Panasonic Toughbook (CF-72). Salix uses a text based installer that is fairly simple to follow if you have some Linux experience. Salix is a Linux distribution based on Slackware that is simple, fast and easy to use. Salix is also fully backwards compatible with Slackware Linux, so Slackware users can benefit from Salix repositories, which they can use as an "extra" quality source of software for their favorite distribution. Like a bonsai, Salix is small, light & the product of infinite care.

http://www.salixos.org/wiki/index.php/Home





A great website for keeping up with Linux and UNIX releases..
http://distrowatch.com/







A good Twitter App
After hitting the following 2K limit in Twitter, I checked out http://manageflitter.com/   An excellent app for filtering out how is not following back, no profile image (a pet peeve), inactive, talkative or too quiet users.

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