d2kx
11-21-2007, 09:41 AM
sidux 2007-04 released
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.
Release notes for Ερως
Our fourth release concentrates on X.org 7.3/ xrandr 1.2 and X detection related changes and the new upstream kernel 2.6.23, combined with an updated mac80211 wlan stack and drivers, which brought support for a number of additional wlan cards. While the last two months have been pretty turbulent in Debian sid with X.org 7.3 entering the scene, several library transitions and infrastructural problems, these issues seem to be mostly resolved for sidux and now allow to provide the best possible opensource support for various graphics chipsets and advanced runtime configuration options provided by xrandr 1.2 compatible drivers.
Further efforts have been invested into an advanced USB installation, kernel stabilisation and the live persistency framework. Various updates, fixes and adaptions have been applied to basically the complete package list and a lot of translation and localisation related endeavours were started to improve the situation for our non english/ german speaking users.
It does not only use Kernel 2.6.23.9-rc1, but also is the first distribution to use the Xserver 1.4.1 that has a lot of bugfixes since Xorg 7.3 / Xserver 1.4 and enables EXA by default. Try out this wonderful distribution, you will not be disappointed!
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.
Release notes for Ερως
Our fourth release concentrates on X.org 7.3/ xrandr 1.2 and X detection related changes and the new upstream kernel 2.6.23, combined with an updated mac80211 wlan stack and drivers, which brought support for a number of additional wlan cards. While the last two months have been pretty turbulent in Debian sid with X.org 7.3 entering the scene, several library transitions and infrastructural problems, these issues seem to be mostly resolved for sidux and now allow to provide the best possible opensource support for various graphics chipsets and advanced runtime configuration options provided by xrandr 1.2 compatible drivers.
Further efforts have been invested into an advanced USB installation, kernel stabilisation and the live persistency framework. Various updates, fixes and adaptions have been applied to basically the complete package list and a lot of translation and localisation related endeavours were started to improve the situation for our non english/ german speaking users.
It does not only use Kernel 2.6.23.9-rc1, but also is the first distribution to use the Xserver 1.4.1 that has a lot of bugfixes since Xorg 7.3 / Xserver 1.4 and enables EXA by default. Try out this wonderful distribution, you will not be disappointed!