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 …
Six siductioneers spent the last weekend at CLT 2015, the annual Linux conference at Chemnitz University. First of all, let me thank the people who organized this conference for the 17th time and of course all the helper bees that make it the most pleasant event on the annual Linux …
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