Presentation of the Slint Linux distribution.

Slint is based on Slackware and includes tools borrowed from Salix.

Slint inherits all Slackware features and additionally makes the system
easier to install and use for newcomers, non English speakers and visually
impaired users.

Slint can be installed and used with speech and braille, both in text
mode and in most graphical environments including MATE.

Two modes for installation are proposed: Auto (no Linux command to type)
and Manual for more customization. The includes a documentation.

The language chosen will be used for internationalized applications.

The Slint Dashboard centralizes access to hardware and system settings,
packages, system tools, documentation and utilities.

Tools for package management with automatic dependencies resolution and
system configuration are mostly borrowed from Salix.

Slint ships with many applications out of the box which allow you to write
and read documents of of many types, communicate by email, chat, play
audio and video, send and receive documents peer to peer, edit audio,
video and graphical documents, develop applications. It is fully usable as
a server on a console and using one of the several included desktops.

Many applications are accessible to visually impaired users, a wide
choice of TTS and associated voices is included, if you still need others
they are easily installable, usable both in a textual environment (console)
as well as on the desktop.

Several in-house tools help you administrating and configuring Slint.

Many more applications are easily installed as software packages through
a simple command or a few clicks. Thousands of software packages are at
your fingertips!

KDE, LXDE with Fvwm, MATE and Xfce desktops and associated applications
are included and get installed (KDE being optional), as well as "light"
standalone window managers: BlackBox, Fluxbox, TWM, WindowMaker.

Slint users are notified about upgrades of installed packages as soon as
they're available, easily installed upon request. This keeps your system safe.

Default preferred applications settings are provided and they can be easily
customized.

The system can be shut down or rebooted from all graphical environments.

To find out more, see the links under Information in the Slint Dasboard.
and visit our wiki:
  https://slint.fr/wiki/en/start
and just type: slint-doc in a terminal after installation.

Support is provided through our mailing list:
https://www.freelists.org/list/slint
our forum:
https://forum.salixos.org/viewforum.php?f=44&sid=b07007ac8384042f110e76568cb075c8
and on IRC:
irc.freenode.net, channel #slint

The Slint project exists mainly through to the hard work of the Slint
translators and other contributors, thanks to all of you!

Thanks to George Vlahavas for his advice, and tools, to the contributors to
the SlackBuilds.org project, who help building so many additional software.

Slint is based on Slackware, brought by Patrick J. Volkerding and contributors.
Thanks! I encourage all Slint users to contribute to Slackware funding, and
also to donate to the Salix project.

The Slint repositories are kindly hosted for free by Darren 'Tadgy' Austin.
I encourage  all Slint users to contribute to funding the host:
https://slackware.uk/

Links for financial contributions:
Support Slackware: https://paypal.me/volkerdi
Become Slackware Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/slackwarelinux
Support Slackware UK and become a patron: https://patreon.com/slackwareUK
Donations to Salix: https://salixos.org/donations.html

Enjoy!

Didier Spaier
<didier~at~slint~dot~fr>

Last updated 28 March 2021