sidux is a desktop oriented Linux distribution based on the "unstable" Debian branch called Sid. The distribution consists of a Live-CD (bootable CD-ROM) for i686 or amd64 architecture and can be installed to a hard drive through a graphical installer.
sidux is maintained by a small team of developers including former Kanotix developer Stefan Lippers-Hollmann (slh). Administration is managed by The sidux Foundation, Inc. located in the United States.
After 3 months of development we are proud to announce the immediate availability of the sidux-2007-02 "Τάρταρος" release for amd64 and i686 systems, shipping in a ≈425 MB lite KDE and a ≈ 690 MB full KDE flavor. sidux is a full featured Debian sid based live CD with a special focus on hard disk installations, a clean upgrade path within sid and additional hard- and software support.
Our second official sidux release has concentrated on overhauling the early boot sequence and adapting to a wider variety of desktop environments and window managers, further efforts regarding the second boot stage, localisations, toolkit abstraction/ harmonisation and refactoring the installer are ongoing. While this release only ships in two KDE flavors (lite and full) again, we're looking for interested maintainers contributing to special purpose releases or tweaking support for other desktop environments and window managers. The ISO is completely based on Debian Sid, enriched and stabilized with sidux' own packages and scripts. It comes with kernel 2.6.21.3, which is based on the most recent vanilla kernel together with several patches for improved hardware support, especially for wireless LAN devices (mac80211).
Now to the interesting topics, like what's on the menu for now:
- amd64 (AMD64, Intel Core2, newer 64 bit capable Pentium 4 CPUs (watch for the "lm" flag in /proc/cpuinfo or use infobash -v3) and i686 (pentium pro/ pentium II or newer).
- debian sid, up to date as of 2007-05-28 14:30 UTC.
- kernel 2.6.21.3 (smp, hard preemption, mac80211).
- KDE 3.5.7 (en + de).
- completely overhauled early boot sequence.
- largely adapted installer and graphical installer frontend.
- enhanced installer for meta tasks.
- new artwork created by cathbard and the sidux art team.
- offline manual for en + de directly on the disc, online manuals for more languages online at http://manual.sidux.com/ and available via apt; a big thank you goes to the documentation and translation teams!
- A number of fixes and enhancements for the installer and the meta-installer.
- installer fixes for fromiso boots.
- changes regarding the access concentrator probing for PPPoE links.
- fixed xawtv configuration frontend.
- minor artwork tweaking.
- lots of changes for the manual
- iwlwifi 0.21.
- ndiswrapper updates.
- support for ATi SB700 chipsets.
- MPC52xx support.
- performance boost for Intel ICH7 based IDE controllers.
- kvm ABI 19
- improved support for SCSI devices.
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