Topic: Release Notes

Posted by : slh on Wednesday, February 21, 2007 - 06:33 PM

After 3 months of development we are proud to announce the immediate availability of the sidux-2007-01 “Χάος release” for amd64 and i686 systems, shipping in a ≈ 402 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 Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 01:58 AM

Problems with booting from some drives (including sata and usb) have been present in previous sidux releases. We believe Preview 4 solves those problems. This is the only significant change since preview 3. Please check the release notes for preview 3 for further information and inform us of any changes to s-ata and usb ("bootusb2" cheatcode) booting. The full featured final release of sidux-2007-01 "Χάος" will be ready soon (i686 and amd64), intermediate xdeltas will be provided as needed until then.

Posted by : slh on Wednesday, February 14, 2007 - 03:36 AM

We are a little late in our release schedule for sidux 2007-01 since Kernel 2.6.20 entered the stage, most of our efforts have gone into adapting sidux for the new kernel, fixing a number of smaller issues reported over the last two weeks so we would like to take the opportunity of releasing another preview to test regressions imposed by kernel 2.6.20 and to confirm fixes we cannot test ourselves. Please note this is not the final release. The full featured final release of sidux-2007-01 "Χάος" will be ready soon (i686 and amd64), intermediate xdeltas will be provided as needed until then.
As already mentioned in "sidux Release Plan" we're skipping preview 2 which couldn't be released due to grave bugs in time, special thanks go to our qa teams to uncover these issues on their hardware.

Posted by : slam on Friday, February 09, 2007 - 06:14 PM

Most of us were waiting for it - yesterday the preview 2 of sidux-2007-01 "Χάος" was ready. But just a few minutes after uploading our quality control team discovered a bug, which was nasty enough to hold back publication (was not an easy decision for us). Our development team has fixed the problem, meanwhile we will use the weekend to optimize some minor stuff. Monday/Tuesday we will publically release preview 3, and do hope for your help with testing and discovering last minor bugs - if any. You will for the first time have the opportunity to also test our brand new Meta-Package-Installer, which does work in live mode, too.

Posted by : slh on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 - 11:51 PM

It's been a while since our latest status report, now I have the pleasure to announce the first public preview for sidux 2007-01. Please note this is not the final release. The full featured final release of sidux-2007-01 "Χάος" will be ready in 1-2 weeks (i686 and amd64), intermediate xdeltas will be provided as needed until then.