We are very happy to ship a Christmas present to you today that took a couple of years to be delivered. The wish for a Gnome release grew, while sidux was still around. Back in the day, Gnome2 would easily break on upgrades to Debian unstable, so no one ever wanted to maintain that. Things got better over time and for the last three years one person was perpetually nagging us to do this release, and here it is. Angelescu Ovidiu (convbsd) is the man, and he will also maintain it.

The released images are a snapshot of Debian unstable, that also goes by the name of sid, from 2012-12-23. They are enhanced with some useful packages and scripts, our own installer and a custom patched version of the linux-kernel 3.7-1, accompanied by Xorg 7.7+1 with core 1.12.4-4. The release is available for download in 32-bit and and 64-bit versions

We are very happy to present to you the final release of siduction 2012.2 - Riders on the Storm. Siduction is a full live-distribution with an integrated installer, based on Debian's unstable branch, and we try to release snapshots quarterly.

Siduction 2012.2 is shipped with 4 Desktop-Environments: KDE SC, XFCE, LXDE and Razor-qt, all in 32- and 64-bit variants. Razor-Qt is the latest flavour that joins our regular release cycle after seeing a dev-release in the summer.

The released images are a snapshot of Debian unstable, that also goes by the name of sid, from 2012-12-09. They are enhanced with some useful packages and scripts, our own installer and a custom patched version of the linux-kernel 3.6-9, accompanied by XServer 1.12.4-4.

As the freeze for Debian 7 aka Wheezy will still last some months, we take the opportunity to update and consolidate our package-base with this new release.

We are happy to present to you the 2nd Release Candidate of siduction 2012.2 - Riders on the Storm. Siduction is a distribution based on Debian's unstable branch and we try to release snapshots quarterly. Please report any bugs you find in this RC to our forum or Chili.

Siduction 2012.2 is shipped with 4 Desktop-Environments: KDE SC, XFCE, LXDE and Razor-qt, all in 32- and 64-bit variants. Razor-Qt is the latest flavour that joins our regular release cycle after seeing a dev-release in the summer.

The released images are a snapshot of Debian unstable, that also goes by the name of sid, from 2012-12-02. They are enhanced with some useful packages and scripts, our own installer and a custom patched version of the linux-kernel 3.6-8, accompanied by XServer 1.12.4-4.

As the freeze for Debian 7 aka Wheezy will still last some months, we take the opportunity to update and consolidate our package-base with this new release.

We are happy to present to you the 1st Release Candidate of siduction 2012.2 - Riders on the Storm. Siduction is a distribution based on Debian's unstable branch and we try to release snapshots quarterly. Please report any bugs you find in this RC to our forum or Chili.

Siduction 2012.2 is shipped with 4 Desktop-Environments: KDE SC, XFCE, LXDE and Razor-qt, all in 32- and 64-bit variants. Razor-Qt is the latest flavour that joins our regular release cycle after seeing a dev-release in the summer.

We are exited to share with you the first development release of a new flavour of siduction. As the name suggests, noX is a version of our distribution without a X-server. That might be a interesting release for our users for different reasons.

We today released the 1st fix-release of siduction 2012.1 Desperado, called 2012.1.1 Desperado Reloaded. Besides small enhancements the main reason for this fix-release was to ship the full set of KDE SC 4.8.4.

siduction 2012.1.1 Desperado Reloaded is shipped with 3 Desktop-Environments: KDE SC, XFCE and LXDE, all in 32- and 64-bit variants. LXDE still fits a CD, KDE SC and XFCE fail to do so. Moving them to a USB-device with dd or cat to install from seems appropriate if your hardware supports booting from USB. (please refer to our manual)

The released images are a snapshot of Debian Unstable, that also goes by the name of sid, from 2012-06-24. They are enhanced with some useful packages and scripts, our own installer and a custom patched version of the linux-kernel 3.4.4, accompanied by XServer 1.12.1.

As the freeze for Debian 7 aka Wheezy will begin on June 30 and, from experience, will last at least 8 months, we take the opportunity to ship a fresh snapshot to our users beforehand. This makes the more sense, since KDE SC 4.8.4 is now in unstable as a complete package set. The only exception is kdepim. The Debian-KDE Team has decided to stay with 4.4.11 and thus ship Kmail instead of Kmail2. The KDE SC package set we ship today will most likely be the one to be used in Wheezy.

Another change comes from our decision to change the default setup of akonadi from mysql to sqlite, as we feel, that the full set of mysql is not mandatory for the job.

Built and released at LinuxTag convention in Berlin on 2012-05-25 we present to you the first developement release of siduction razor-qt 12.1. Razor-Qt 0.41, as the base for this release, was checked out of git on 2012-05-26. We plan to integrate Razor-Qt into our development cycle lateron in 2012.

We are pleased to present our first release of siduction in 2012. siduction is released ~4 times per year and is based on the Debian Unstable repository.

Thank you for thoroughly testing our release candidate and posting bugs. We hope, we squashed them all.

siduction 2012.1 'Desperado' is shipped with 3 Desktop-Environments: KDE SC 4.8.3, XFCE 4.8 and LXDE, all in 32- and 64-bit variants. LXDE still fits a CD, KDE SC and XFCE fail to do so. Moving them to a USB-device with dd or cat to install from seems appropriate if your hardware supports booting from USB. (please refer to our manual)

The released images are a snapshot of Debian Unstable, that also goes by the name of sid, from 2012-05-21. They are enhanced with some useful packages and scripts, our own installer and a custom patched version of the linux-kernel 3.4-0, accompanied by XServer 1.12.1.902-1.

We ship KDE SC in version 4.8.3. Please mind that only a base-set of KDE SC 4.8.3 packages is yet packaged and uploaded.

We are pleased to present our first release of siduction in 2012. siduction is released ~4 times per year and is based on the Debian Unstable repository

siduction 2012.1 RC1 - Desperado is shipped with 3 Desktop-Environments: KDE SC 4.8.3, XFCE 4.8 and LXDE, all in 32- and 64-bit variants. LXDE still fits a CD, KDE SC and XFCE fail to do so. Moving them to a USB-device with dd or cat to install from seems appropriate if your hardware supports booting from USB. (please refer to our manual)

The released images are a snapshot of Debian Unstable, that also goes by the name of sid, from 2012-05-13. They are enhanced with some useful packages and scripts, our own installer and a custom patched version of the linux-kernel 3.3.6, accompanied by XServer 1.12.1-2.

We ship KDE SC in version 4.8.3. Please mind that only a base-set of KDE SC 4.8.3 packages is yet packaged and uploaded. We expect more packages to appear until our final release of siduction 2012.1. Further upgrades will happen per dist-upgrade from our kde-next repository. As user of the KDE Desktop Environment, make sure to have that enabled.

As any project, that does not generate income, we have to rely on donations from the community to be able to expand and promote the project. As a young project without any financial reserves we need funds now. So we have decided in our last core-meeting to start a donation-sprint to raise the money we need.