Posted by : x-un-i on Friday, August 24, 2007 - 11:31 PM

The sidux meta-manual is up!


The sidux meta-manual is up and running! It is available in English only at the moment as it has not been translated yet.

The bulk of the meta-manual is due to the vision of zulu9 who also manages the games- and phonetics- meta-packages.

Off the 124 files that make up the meta-manual 100 are due those two meta-packages.areas.

Posted by : slh on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 - 08:58 PM

A last minute update of xine-lib (1.1.7-2) in debian sid has dropped all previous dependencies of libxine1 on its required audio/ video plugins to "Recommends" (in preparation of implementing "Installation of Recommends by default on October 1st") and caused our initial sidux 2007-03 "Γαια" release to lose out-of-the box support for audio/ video playback (#437693). Already existing installations of 2007-03 "Γαια" can be fixed by updating "libxine1", "libxine1-ffmpeg" and fixing the group membership for "video".

apt-get update
apt-get install libxine1 libxine1-ffmpeg
sed -i "s/\,sidux/\,$(getent passwd 1000 | cut -d\: -f1)/" /etc/group

This updated hotfix release fixes the audio/ video problems for live purposes and is targeted at preventing these issues for new installations.

After less than 3 months of development, we are proud to announce the immediate availability of the sidux 2007-03 "Γαια" release for amd64 and i686 systems, shipping in a ≈440 MB lite KDE and a ≈700 MB full KDE flavor. 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.

Posted by : slh on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 - 03:06 PM

After less than 3 months of development, we are proud to announce the immediate availability of the sidux 2007-03 "Γαια" release for amd64 and i686 systems, shipping in a ≈440 MB lite KDE and a ≈700 MB full KDE flavor. 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.

Posted by : slh on Sunday, August 05, 2007 - 10:21 PM

Leading towards the final release of sidux 2007-03 Γαῖα and despite some vacancies during the holiday season, some pretty far reaching transitions could be completed to remove hard dependencies on gtk+ 1.2, which not only required a siginificant amount of ISO storage, but also imposed an additional maintenance and security support burden on our toolset. Now we're proud to announce the third preview for sidux 2007-03 Γαῖα and are looking forward to the full featured final release in about a week.

Posted by : slh on Monday, July 23, 2007 - 03:45 PM

Thanks to your feedback the issues on non-german keyboard layouts and scanner misbehaviour in preview 1 could be fixed in sidux 2007-03 Γαῖα Preview 2. This is a mere bugfix release and doesn't require reinstalling, instructions to fix the issues in preview 1 are described below (updating to the new kernel and adapting /etc/X11/xorg.conf to your keyboard layout).