Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:01:40 +0000 http://www.sidux.com/ sidux.com en-us http://www.sidux.com/images/hack.png http://www.sidux.com/ noreply@sidux.com http://www.sidux.com/Article440.html A little later than planned due to a number of library transitions in Debian/ sid, we now have the pleasure to announce the immediate availability of sidux 2008-02 "Έρεβος", shipping in roughly ≈470 MB kde-lite flavours for amd64 and i386 (i686), a combined i386+amd64 release with ≈1.5 GB KDE for kde-full and, as usual, an xdelta to add initial localisations for all currently supported languages. Enhancing the sidux family, a roughly ≈420 MB large XFCE variant has been added for amd64 and i386 (i686) for the first time. 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. The ISO is completely based on Debian sid, enriched and stabilized with sidux' own packages and scripts. Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:01:40 +0000 http://www.sidux.com/Article437.html A little later than planned, sidux 2008-02 "Έρεβος" is now ready to enter the preview season for amd64 and i686 systems. As usual the previews are shipping only as a small (≈460 MB), but fully functional, KDE-lite flavour, to ease up testing and xdelta uploads and will be accompanied by the combined ≈1.5 GB KDE-full variant for the final release. 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. The ISO is completely based on Debian sid, enriched and stabilized with sidux' own packages and scripts. Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:54:22 +0000 http://www.sidux.com/Article434.html As some of you might have seen in todays news, Debian had a serious problem with SSL Keys. Good reference and ways to fix it are online. Please follow their advice, its a serious topic. Wed, 14 May 2008 01:30:38 +0000 http://www.sidux.com/Article429.html The Italian -it version of the the sidux Operating System manual hits the sidux site with zenren and speedygeo as translators and maintainers !!!! The Italian version of sidux-manuals has been in the works for nearly 14 months. It was started by alessiog75, then dedo picked it up, (unfortunately he could not continue either), followed months later by fortalomo whom has subsequently moved continents. Then along came speedygeo and zenren. zenren really put the foot to the floor in true Italian fashion! Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:23:38 +0000 http://www.sidux.com/Article428.html sidux e.V. is pleased to announce the release of the second edition of sidux-DVD. The sidux-DVD is a loosely updated project that incorporates both 32 bit and 64 bit in one Iso. Based on the current Nyx release it presents an enhanced package list of KDE apps and, in addition to the first release. Included are language environments for the following languages: en_AU, en_GB, da_DK, de_DE, es_ES, en_US, fr_FR, hr_HR, ja_JP, nl_NL, pt_BR,, pt_PT, ro_RO and ru_RU This DVD release is not available for download but only in the sidux Webshop Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:15:04 +0000 http://www.sidux.com/Article422.html sidux e.V. is pleased to present to you today the first version of sidux-seminarix here for download. This is a educational project that merges Seminarix with the base of sidux. Seminarix is aimed at schooling teachers as well as pupils with free and open software to make computer training in schools less costly and more effective. The project was initiated in March 2007 by Wolf-Dieter Zimmermann, who works in the education of students for a teaching credential. First based upon Kubuntu, sidux e.V. started to port it to sidux with the help of teachers and interested users. With sidux as a powerfull free and open Linux distribution the Seminarix project now has a fast, easy to maintain and always current base. Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:51:05 +0000 http://www.sidux.com/Article416.html A lot later than planned, but now we have the pleasure to announce the immediate availability of sidux 2008-01 "Νυξ", shipping in roughly ≈435 MB kde-lite flavours for amd64 and i386 (i686), a combined i386+amd64 release with ≈1470 MB KDE for kde-full and an xdelta to add initial localisations for all currently supported languages. 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. The ISO is completely based on Debian sid, enriched and stabilized with sidux' own packages and scripts. Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:52:22 +0000 http://www.sidux.com/Article414.html It was exactly one year ago today when the sidux e. V. founders came together to hold their first constitutive meeting at IRC #sidux-ev. Immediately the first version of its Statutes was passed leading to the establishing of the Association (e. V.). Apart from distributing free software, it is sidux e. V. aim, to support the sidux project financially as well as in legal matters. Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:43:24 +0000 http://www.sidux.com/Article410.html Now that KDE 3.5.9 and a working version of qt-x11-free 3.3.8 are available in Debian sid, we have the pleasure to announce the second public preview of sidux 2008-01 "Νυξ", shipping in a roughly ≈460 MB large kde-lite variant for amd64 and i386 systems. Please note this is not the final release, the full featured final release of "Νυξ" will be ready in about 1-2 weeks, intermediate xdeltas will be provided as needed until then. 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. The ISO is completely based on Debian sid, enriched and stabilized with sidux' own packages and scripts. Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:37:57 +0000 http://www.sidux.com/Article403.html What has originally been planned as minor maintenance release with the bumped kernel version as major feature, resulted in much larger changes for sidux 2008-01 "Νυξ". Now we have the pleasure to announce the first public preview of sidux 2008-01, shipping in a roughly ≈460 MB large kde-lite variant for amd64 and i386 systems. Please note this is not the final release, the full featured final release of "Νυξ" will be ready in about 2-3 weeks (depending on the availability of KDE 3.5.9 in Debian sid), intermediate xdeltas will be provided as needed until then. 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. The ISO is completely based on Debian sid, enriched and stabilized with sidux' own packages and scripts. Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:13:24 +0000 http://www.sidux.com/Article401.html Today 1 year ago, the first final Release sidux-2007-01 Χάος saw the light of day. Since then much effort has been put in sidux developement to be soon continued with more debian compatability by introducing aptable kernels. We wish sidux a long life and all users ongoing fun and success with it. on behalf of the sidux team: devil Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:16:01 +0000 http://www.sidux.com/Article390.html We are pleased to announce the release of a sidux DVD. The DVD holds a ~4 GB sized ISO as multiarch (32 and 64 bit in one ISO) which contains a big variety of KDE apps and other interesting programs and tools mainly for graphics and multimedia use. A complete packagelist can be seen here. The technical specifications are the same as sidux-2007-04.5 X-mas special "Ερως" and can be viewed in the release note. Localisations for Iceweasel, Icedove and KDE are already included for -da, -de, -engb, -es, -fr, -hr, -ja, -nl, -pl, -ptbr, -ro and -ru. The sidux DVD is not available as download but only at the sidux Webshop. With purchasing the DVD you support sidux. Sun, 30 Dec 2007 09:15:39 +0000 http://www.sidux.com/Article384.html sidux-manual turned 1 year today. 1 year ago a decision was made to send the the sidux manual 'live' and even though sidux did not have an ISO. It went 'live' in 2 languages English and German (moto did 85% of the translation to -de) 1 year later sidux-manual is in 12 languages, and currently 2 other languages are in translation mode - Greek and Chinese Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:47:13 +0000 http://www.sidux.com/Article376.html A lot has changed since sidux 2007-04 "Ερως" got released, most importantly additional hardware support for concurrent graphics-, DVB-, ALSA- and wireless LAN devices, which suggests to fresh up "Ερως", while continuing the development for sidux 2008-01 "Νυξ". Consequently we are now proud to announce the immediate availability of the sidux 2007-04.5 "Ερως" christmas special for amd64 and i686 systems, shipping in roughly ≈445 MB KDE lite flavours and a combined i386+amd64 release with ≈1430 MB KDE for kde-full. 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. The ISO is completely based on Debian sid, enriched and stabilized with sidux' own packages and scripts. Wed, 26 Dec 2007 03:39:21 +0000 http://www.sidux.com/Article373.html The Japanese -ja version of the the sidux Operating System manual with muchan as translator and maintainer hits the sidux site. Whats more, he did it on his own, and started in November just 5 weeks ago. The sidux Operating System manual first went live on 28th Dec 2006, so its fitting that muchan representing the Japanese language is the 12th language to be added to mark of the sidux-manuals first aniversary and means that since sidux opened it doors a new language has been added every month! If printed the sidux OS manual would run to 230+ pages per translation, The sidux Operating System Manual in Japanese is here muchan, take a bow, you did it so fast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and you did it while taking an active part in all other facets of sidux through #IRC,sidux forums and wiki and other backend testing to ensure the best possble outcome for everyone, Just sensational! On behalf of the sidux Team Trevor Walkley bluewater Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:05:11 +0000 http://www.sidux.com/Article370.html Today one year ago was the official start of sidux with the first 2 users registered on the forum, with many more to follow in the days after. I remember well the time about 15 months ago. We were all working with and for this other distribution and we were all frustrated. Some had already left the project. No release in sight, nobody knew what was going to happen, communication between team and project leader was more or less non existant. We all saw a basically good project going down the drain, for some of us after 3 years of work invested and we could not do much about it. All of us were pondering on what to do and when and how to do it. What helped making a decision was the anouncement from the project leader to change the base of the distro to something other than debian unstable. After that, things started moving fast, hours later slam had set up sidux forum, irc to follow soon after, we agreed on the name sidux and off we went. Attention as well as expectations on the project were high from the start so after a few days we set up this declaration which defines our goals and i think they were fullfilled and sidux went quite far in one year. My idea saying happy birthday was, to ask people that were with the project from the beginning to give some personal insight of their feelings about our project. Some have found the time to do so and so here they are: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:20:00 +0000 http://www.sidux.com/Article364.html While sidux is approaching its first birthday, we are proud to announce the immediate availability of the sidux 2007-04 "Ερως" release for amd64 and i686 systems, shipping in a ≈445 MB KDE lite and a ≈680 MB KDE full flavour. 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. The ISO is completely based on Debian sid, enriched and stabilized with sidux' own packages and scripts. Wed, 21 Nov 2007 04:10:44 +0000 http://www.sidux.com/Article351.html It has been a turbulent week behind the scenes of Debian sid, with an accidental glibc upload, a broken openssl version (#449200) affecting wpasupplicant and ries.debian.org (ftp-master) breaking down due to filesystem problems. Nevertheless it is time to continue the preview season with our second preview heading towards our fourth sidux release "Ερως", concentrating on further X.org 7.3/ xrandr 1.2 and X detection testing and finalizing the driver selection for various wlan cards (please report any issues here). As usual the previews are shipping only as a small (≈460 MB), but fully functional, KDE-lite flavour, to ease up testing and xdelta uploads and will be accompanied by ≈700 MB KDE-full variants for the final release. 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. The ISO is completely based on Debian sid, enriched and stabilized with sidux' own packages and scripts. Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:17:55 +0000 http://www.sidux.com/Article347.html After quite some delays from our planned schedule, due to X.org 7.3 related issues of varying severity, sidux 2007-04 "Ερως" is now ready to enter the preview season for amd64 and i686 systems. As usual the previews are shipping only as a small (≈460 MB), but fully functional, KDE-lite flavour, to ease up testing and xdelta uploads and will be accompanied by ≈700 MB KDE-full variants for the final release. 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. The ISO is completely based on debian sid, enriched and stabilized with sidux' own packages and scripts. Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:47:48 +0000 http://www.sidux.com/Article324.html The sidux Operating System manual in French -fr with LjanA at the helm as translator and maintainer hits the sidux site, and barely a week after ceti sent the manual in Portuguese-Brazil pt-br 'live' Wow, its all happening! Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:04:42 +0000 http://www.sidux.com/Article313.html Following hard on the heels of the meta-manual going 'live', the sidux Operating System manual in Portuguese-Brazil pt-br goes 'live' with ceti as the translator and maintainer ceti started to work to translate the manual to Portuguese-br 6 weeks ago, and on his own.and has translated 75% of the manual, which consists of 39 files in total (to date) and if printed would run to 230 +pages per translation, ceti, considering you had a 2 week vacation in the middle of the translating cycle, you have completed an incredible amount of work in a short time! All pt-br and also -pt speakers and your country should be very, very impressed and proud of you. Congratulations on a job done exceedingly well done. Stand up and take a bow!. On behalf of the sidux Team Trevor Walkley bluewater Wed, 29 Aug 2007 06:24:09 +0000 http://www.sidux.com/Article303.html sidux now has more mirrors for better access to the ISOs, kernels and the debian repository. Please use the closest mirror. If anyone can provide additional download mirrors, especially in the south america and the pacific region, it would be appreciated. Please contact us if you're able to provide a mirror capable of enduring heavy volume ISO downloads. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT: sidux, as a Linux LIVE-CD, is based on high compression technology, and because of that, special care is needed when burning the ISO image. Only use high quality CD-media [or DVD+RW] and burn in DAO-mode (disk-at-once) and not faster than x8. Sat, 25 Aug 2007 09:41:11 +0000 http://www.sidux.com/Article302.html The sidux meta-manual is up! The sidux meta-manual is up and running! It is available in English only at the moment as it has not been translated yet. The bulk of the meta-manual is due to the vision of zulu9 who also manages the games- and phonetics- meta-packages. Off the 124 files that make up the meta-manual 100 are due those two meta-packages.areas. Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:31:19 +0000 http://www.sidux.com/Article290.html A last minute update of xine-lib (1.1.7-2) in debian sid has dropped all previous dependencies of libxine1 on its required audio/ video plugins to "Recommends" (in preparation of implementing "Installation of Recommends by default on October 1st") and caused our initial sidux 2007-03 "Γαια" release to lose out-of-the box support for audio/ video playback (#437693). Already existing installations of 2007-03 "Γαια" can be fixed by updating "libxine1", "libxine1-ffmpeg" and fixing the group membership for "video". apt-get update apt-get install libxine1 libxine1-ffmpeg sed -i "s/\,sidux/\,$(getent passwd 1000 | cut -d\: -f1)/" /etc/group This updated hotfix release fixes the audio/ video problems for live purposes and is targeted at preventing these issues for new installations. After less than 3 months of development, we are proud to announce the immediate availability of the sidux 2007-03 "Γαια" release for amd64 and i686 systems, shipping in a ≈440 MB lite KDE and a ≈700 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. Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:58:10 +0000 http://www.sidux.com/Article286.html After less than 3 months of development, we are proud to announce the immediate availability of the sidux 2007-03 "Γαια" release for amd64 and i686 systems, shipping in a ≈440 MB lite KDE and a ≈700 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. Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:06:44 +0000