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          <rev user="Gapan" timestamp="2014-06-16T07:54:32Z" comment="Remove sponsoring section. It&#039;s there in the homepage anyway." contentformat="text/x-wiki" contentmodel="wikitext" xml:space="preserve">This is the Salix Wiki. You can find documentation here, but also the download links for the iso images and other stuff.

[http://www.salixos.org The Salix main website can be reached here].

== Documentation ==

These are the main categories of articles that are used in this wiki:

# [[:Category:FAQ|FAQ]]
# [[:Category:User Documentation|User Documentation]]
# [[:Category:Software developed in-house|Software developed in-house]]
# [[:Category:Developer Documentation|Developer Documentation]]
# [[:Category:Salix Roadmap|Roadmap]]
# [[Meeting|Salix Meetings]]</rev>
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