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[News] Debian Derivative Sidux and Debian Lenny Praised

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Review: Sidux 2008.1  

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| Sidux's primary motto is that it's "Debian Hot and Spicy".  Really, I didn't 
| find anything "Hot and Spicy" about it.  In fact, the entire desktop 
| experience is calm, soothing, and productive.  Overall I like Sidux.  I'm 
| very impressed with its speed, its ease of use, the tools it has and more.  
| But it's not quite up to a point yet where I can recommend it to new users.  
| Now if a user who had a bit more experience wanted to take it for a spin, 
| then I would by all means recommend this distribution.  Think of it like a 
| house that has a few flaws with it.  It's great for someone who doesn't mind 
| tinkering, but not for someone who wants a turnkey house.        
| 
| Now in the future if they clean up the few things I mentioned and make them 
| more new user friendly, then by all means I would love to recommend this 
| distribution to new users, because I think they'd do well with it if those 
| couple of things could be fixed.  If you'd like to download this 
| distribution, or learn more about it, I recommend going to their homepage.    
| There's a lot of great things there to get you started into the world of 
| Sidux.     
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http://www.raiden.net/?cat=2&aid=416

My Debian Adventure, Part 2: Lenny

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| Of course, I also configured my desktop and tweaked many other interface 
| settings, using My Debian Adventure as a guide to remind me how I wanted 
| things to look. I guess I'll go through my entire Debian Adventure, to see 
| what else I might want to configure in Lenny, but at this point, I'm 
| already "up and running" and my Lenny system looks and works pretty much the 
| same as my Etch system, only faster.     
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http://www.computerbob.com/guides/my_debian_adventure_part_2_lenny.php


Recent:

Interview with Chris Hildebrandt, the sidux project

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| The sidux project has emerged as one of the star distributions of this year. 
| With its methodical approach to stabilising Debian's unstable branch and 
| turning it into a pleasant and fast desktop system, many users are 
| discovering the pleasure of running a cutting edge development branch of a 
| major distribution without the most of the risks associated with using such a 
| fast-changing system. DistroWatch emailed Chris Hildebrandt, one of the 
| project's founders, to ask about the secrets of sidux.      
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http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20080324#feature


Related:

Sneak Peak at Soon Arriving SiDUX 2008

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| Let’s not get overwhelmed by this and try to focus on those few distributions 
| that really worth using, reviewing, presenting to new users and so on. Will 
| Sidux 2008, code name “Νυξ” be part of the select club of the Chosen Ones? We 
| shall see once the full featured final release of “Νυξ” will be released to 
| the public. Until then, let’s see what “Νυξ” has in store for us.    
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http://www.linuxlove.org/2008/03/03/sneak-peak-at-soon-arriving-sidux-2008/


sidux 2007-04.5 christmas special

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| 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.      
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http://sidux.com/Article376.html


Sidux Linux 2007.4

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| I didn't run into any stability issues and the inclusion of multimedia 
| support was nice. I also liked that it synced up with the official Debian 
| repositories. MP3 support will rule out any Debian diehards, but I imagine 
| they would just use vanilla Sid instead.   
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http://www.techiemoe.com/tech/sidux20074.htm


Seduced by Sidux

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| Sidux may have successfully seduced me, but I have to wait and try the 
| Distribution Release so that I can properly and fully express my desire for 
| this fine distro.  
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http://junauza.blogspot.com/2007/11/seduced-by-sidux.html


sidux 2007-03 Review - The Sexiest.

http://www.linuxseekers.com/content/view/163/1/


Screenshots of Sidux 2007-03 preview1

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| By the way, another improvement  seen in sidux 2007-03 preview1 is the fonts 
| used. 
| 
| The Bitstream Vera Sans 11  is  definitely  better!   Just  visit the 
| Distrowatch  with  the Iceweasal browser.  
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http://www.linuxseekers.com/content/view/159/1/


Sidux 2007-02 - A Review

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| Simply put, Sidux 2007-02 was a pleasure to use. The live CD 
| worked beautifully, as did the installer. The desktop is very 
| dark, but this is nice to see after using so many “light” distributions.
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http://shiftbackspace.com/2007/06/29/sidux-2007-02-a-review/


sidux 2007-02

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| After 3 months of development we are proud to announce the
| immediate availability of the sidux-2007-02...
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http://sidux.com/Article236.html


sidux 2007-02 Preview 1 Screenshot Tour

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| What's on the menu: Debian sid, up to date as of 2007-05-13; kernel
| 2.6.21.1 (SMP, voluntary preemption, mac80211); minimal, but fully
| functional KDE 3.5.6 (en + de); completely overhauled early boot
| sequence; largely adapted installer and graphical installer 
| front-end; enhanced installer for meta tasks; new artwork;o
| ffline manual...
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http://osdir.com/Article9846.phtml


Sidux: A live CD for Debian unstable

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| It's a rare distribution that impresses me before I've even tried it,
| but sidux did just that when, a few hours after I'd downloaded and
| burned a two-day-old preview release, the project announced that the
| next release was available for download.
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http://distrocenter.linux.com/distrocenter/07/02/28/1017239.shtml?tid=127


SIDUX 2007-01 Linux LiveCD

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| Screenshots gallery
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=655&num=1


Testdriving Sidux 2007

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| Sidux ships with a 2.6.20 kernel, Xorg 7.1.1, gcc 4.1.2, and KDE
| 3.5.5. Iceweasel 2.0.0.1 appears to be the default browser and
| OpenOffice.org is only at version 2.0.4. Besides what appears to
| be most of the KDE apps, other apps include The Gimp, Amarok,
| K3B, Kaffine, Scribus, XFMedia player, and Inkscape. There are a
| few system configuration tools, but not a lot. Ksensors is
| available through apt-get.
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http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/13870


sidux -- a new star in the Linux galaxy

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| What's most impressive: the huge amount of user documentation
| their documentation and translation teams have managed to write
| up in the short amount of time (the sidux user manual is currently
| available in English as well as Danish, Kroatian, Spanish and
| German).
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http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2691


sidux 2007-01 release

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| 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.
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http://sidux.com/Article116.html


Sidux vs. Mint: Can You Live the Pure Open Source Life?

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| There are valid and compelling reasons why one might want to use only 
| Open Source Software. Avoids any patent or IP legal issues, better 
| security, and encourages innovation are just a few. However, on the 
| other side of the argument there are justifiable reasons for the 
| inclusion of multimedia codecs, proprietary drivers, and closed 
| software in modern Linux distributions. Neither side is wrong.
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http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/16952
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