If you had fun with Slackware (Salix OS in this case), you could give it a chance to Freenix (formerly known as Freeslack) which is a Free eXpansion Pack for Slackware. This means that you install a vanilla Slackware and once the installation process is finished modify your repositories to Freenix so that it replaces and removes the non-free software and kernel. This project is basically focused on listing and removing all non-free applications included in the software installation disk so it is not a GNU/Linux distribution itself.

Beyond that they do not make any additional modifications, as is typical in the Slackware community, they respect and greatly value the decisions that their benevolent dictator for life, Patrick V. in this case, considers for the distribution.

I tried it a long time ago and I have a lot of love and respect for this project. The only warning I can give you when using a Slackware-Libre is to be careful when using or installing any application from the Slackbuilds community repository, something similar to the Ubuntu's ppa, since, they do not have such a firm conviction about the ideology of the FSF as the truly libre distributions.

I assure you you'll have a lot of fun with Slackware-Libre.

Best regards.

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