As some of you might have read between the lines on the forum, the public development of sidux has lately come to a halt. The reason for this are ongoing problems between the developers and sidux e.V. (the german foundation) that need to be settled before we can move on. We are in the process of doing so. On 2010-08-14 there will be a member meeting of the foundation to see if problems can be solved. Please give us the time needed to solve these problems. We will keep you posted after the meeting.

The kde-full ISO was removed from the mirrors due to a liveapt bug. See http://sidux.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=21153 . There are plans to release a follow-up kde-full ISO but currently we can not say when this will happen.

Now that KDE 4.4.4 and kernel 2.6.34 have entered the archive, we have the pleasure to announce the immediate availability of the final sidux 2010-01 "Ύπνος" release, shipping in the following flavours:

• KDE-lite, amd64, en/ de, ≈625 MB.
• KDE-lite, i686, en/ de, ≈620 MB.
• KDE-full, amd64+i686, en/ de (bg, da, el, es, fr, hr, hu, it, ja, nl, pt, pt_BR, ro, ru through liveapt) ≈2.2 GB.
• XFCE, amd64, en/ de, ≈520 MB.
• XFCE, i686, en/ de, ≈515 MB.

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 hardware and software support. The ISO is completely based on Debian sid, enriched and stabilized with sidux' own packages and scripts.

Now that KDE 4.4.3 and kernel 2.6.34 have entered the archive, we have the pleasure to announce the immediate availability of the first preview for sidux 2010-01 "Ύπνος", shipping in the following flavours:

• KDE-lite, amd64, en/ de, ≈625 MB.
• KDE-lite, i686, en/ de, ≈620 MB.
• XFCE-lite, amd64+i686, ≈820 MB.

Please note this is not the final release, the full featured final release of "Ύπνος" will be ready in about 1-2 weeks, further previews might be provided as needed until then.

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 hardware and software support. The ISO is completely based on Debian sid, enriched and stabilized with sidux' own packages and scripts.

I did a blogpost on Nepomuk when it first appeared. It explains what Nepomuk does and where it comes from, but the technical part in there is deprecated by now. So, with KDE 4.4.3 hot and steaming on the plate, lets have another look at Nepomuk and also at Akonadi, which is just now becoming usefull but is still a bit buggy.

The University of Leipzig is now hosting a sidux mirror in the Free State of Saxony reachable via IPv4 and IPv6 on a massively fast pipe:

Jesse Smith from Distrowatch has written and published a very objective sidux review, which is worth reading.

Ladislav and Jesse have always treated us very fair over the last years – Thanks!

Greetings,

Chris

As has been announced on several mailing lists and today as official Debian Press Announcement a group of people related to Debian in different ways are setting up the first mini debconf in Germany as we could not get the big one this time :)

 

Following up from the torrent for 2009-03 you can now find the trackerless torrent file for 2009-04 here.

Update

I think it's time to give up on trackerless torrents for now (though some data has been transferred) so use this tracked torrent file for 2009-04. Apart from anything else the meta-trackers don't seem to like the untracked torrents.