Today we are proud to release siduction 2018.1.0 with the flavours KDE,LXQt, GNOME, Cinnamon, MATE, XFCE, LXDE, Xorg and noX. The released images are a snapshot of Debian unstable, that also goes by the name of Sid, from 2017-29-12. They are enhanced with some useful packages and scripts, a brand …
We are planning™ to release a full set of siduction images with all flavours before going to CLT (Chemnitzer Linux-Tage) next month. There are at least three reasons for that: We can boast about it at the conference We will have a new installer for you to try We promised …
Yesterday I wrote about how to install and use Snap to install the latest LibreOffice 5.3. I promised to do the same with Fedora/GNOME’s alternative package format Flatpak. Needless to say this also applies for pure Debian Unstable and Debian Testing installs. For Debian Jessie you would need backports enabled. …
I am sure, everyone has heard about Ubuntu’s new package format snap by now. Today I wanted to try the brand new and still hot off the press LibreOffice 5.3 for a review. So I found that the Document Foundation had a snap ready for deployment. The prerequisites for siduction …
As of today we are happy to share with you a new mirror in the United States. It is located at Princeton University and should be our fastest mirror in the US. The URLs are: Princeton University http://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/siduction/iso/ https://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/siduction/iso/ deb https://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/siduction/extra unstable main deb-src https://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/siduction/extra unstable main deb https://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/siduction/fixes unstable …
Today we present to you the first batch of siduction 2016.1, which consists of the flavours noX, Xorg, LXDE, Xfce and Plasma 5. We attempt to release a 2nd batch with the flavours Gnome, Cinnamon, Mate and LXQt as soon as possible in the new year. This release of siduction …
As you may have sensed by now, we are having problems this year getting out a proper release of the desktop environments we ship. There is more than one reason for that. For one it was really hard to get things in shape for a release. KDE for example was …
With systemd 230, released a couple of days ago, the developers changed a default setting, that eliminates one of the few annoyances I experienced with systemd. Many a forum thread all over the net tried to solve the problem. This annoyance resulted in a message during reboot or shutdown, that …
We present to you today the second part of the dev-release 2015.1, which, with it’s final release in a couple of weeks will be named siduction 2016.1. siduction is a distribution based on Debian’s unstable branch. With a heavy heart we dedicate this release to the memory of the …
Release Notes for siduction 2015.1 Dev-Release We present to you today a dev-release at the last possible point in time for this year and inform you of some changes in our release model. siduction is a distribution based on Debian’s unstable branch. With a heavy heart we dedicate this release …
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