Topic: Important News

Posted by : devil on Friday, December 28, 2007 - 04:07 PM

Please do not dist-upgrade today!
kdebase-data seems to create serious problems.
We are just investigating the issue and will keep you informed

Edit: kdebase-data is installable again. problem is fixed.

Posted by : devil on Thursday, December 20, 2007 - 09:05 PM

The Japanese -ja version of the the sidux Operating System manual with muchan as translator and maintainer hits the sidux site.

Whats more, he did it on his own, and started in November just 5 weeks ago.

The sidux Operating System manual first went live on 28th Dec 2006, so its fitting that muchan representing the Japanese language is the 12th language to be added to mark of the sidux-manuals first aniversary and means that since sidux opened it doors a new language has been added every month!
If printed the sidux OS manual would run to 230+ pages per translation,

The sidux Operating System Manual in Japanese is here

muchan, take a bow, you did it so fast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and you did it while taking an active part in all other facets of sidux through #IRC,sidux forums and wiki and other backend testing to ensure the best possble outcome for everyone, Just sensational!

On behalf of the sidux Team
Trevor Walkley
bluewater

Posted by : devil on Saturday, November 24, 2007 - 12:20 AM

Today one year ago was the official start of sidux with the first 2 users registered on the forum, with many more to follow in the days after.

I remember well the time about 15 months ago.
We were all working with and for this other distribution and we were all frustrated. Some had already left the project. No release in sight, nobody knew what was going to happen, communication between team and project leader was more or less non existant.
We all saw a basically good project going down the drain, for some of us after 3 years of work invested and we could not do much about it.
All of us were pondering on what to do and when and how to do it. What helped making a decision was the anouncement from the project leader to change the base of the distro to something other than debian unstable. After that, things started moving fast, hours later slam had set up sidux forum, irc to follow soon after, we agreed on the name sidux and off we went.
Attention as well as expectations on the project were high from the start so after a few days we set up this declaration which defines our goals and i think they were fullfilled and sidux went quite far in one year.

My idea saying happy birthday was, to ask people that were with the project from the beginning to give some personal insight of their feelings about our project. Some have found the time to do so and so here they are:

Posted by : devil on Monday, November 19, 2007 - 12:51 PM

With todays dist-upgrade Xserver-xorg-core 1.4.1~git20071117-1 gets installed.
Due to missing XRandR 1.2 compatibility Nvidia cards may show problems.
Resolution may be limited to 640x480 with nvidia and with nv.
A workaround could be to add 2 lines to Section "Device" in xorg.conf:

Option "UseEDID" "1"
Option "UseEdidFreqs" "1"

and then run fix-res again to get your desired resolution.
The problem has a bugreport and is supposed to be fixed tomorrow.

EDIT: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.4.1~git20071119-1 is available on the servers and solves the issue.

Posted by : devil on Thursday, November 15, 2007 - 07:50 AM

sidux e.V. (the german sidux foundation) has now been granted the status of a charitable non-profit organisation.
This means that donators and sponsors can have a tax deductable contribution receipt.
Please check with your taxation consultant for your countries international tax agreements.