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Post subject: Happy Birthday, sidux !
 Posted: Oct 20, 2007 - 05:13 PM
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Wie wollen wir unser ERSTES Jubiläum feiern ?
Es ist ja bald so weit, und wir wollen doch nichts dem Zufall überlassen !!!
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whois sidux.com | grep Creation
Creation Date: 24-nov-2006
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So long
RoEn
"Lesen gefährdet die Dummheit"
"Was unserer Welt fehlt, ist nicht Öl, sondern mehr Toleranz"
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Post subject: RE: Happy Birthday, sidux !
Posted: Oct 20, 2007 - 06:43 PM
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Post subject: RE: Happy Birthday, sidux !
Posted: Oct 20, 2007 - 06:45 PM
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whois sidux.com | grep Creation
Creation Date: 24-nov-2006
Diese dubiose Linux konsole weiss wirklich alles ...
Greetings,
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development is life - code.zikula.org
an operating system must operate - sidux.com
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Post subject: Re: RE: Happy Birthday, sidux !
Posted: Oct 20, 2007 - 10:34 PM
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slam wrote:
Bitte nicht feiern - an Geburtstagen fühle ich mich immer so alt ... ;-)
Greetings,
Chris
Hi slam,
man ist bekanntlich so alt wie man sich fühlt...oder? |
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Viele Grüße
mylo
sidux [Έρως]@2.6.27-7.slh.1-686 Intel Core2 Duo E6550 @ Cache/Ram 4MB/4GB nVidia G72 7300 2*250GB
scroogle.org: an alternate web search?
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Posted: Oct 21, 2007 - 08:59 AM
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Wenn ich den Geburtstag anderer feiere, dann werden doch die älter, nicht ich...
Wo ist das Problem?
Cheers,
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Posted: Oct 25, 2007 - 07:46 PM
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Hochschieber !
hehe, wo bleiben die Vorschläge |
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"Lesen gefährdet die Dummheit"
"Was unserer Welt fehlt, ist nicht Öl, sondern mehr Toleranz"
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Post subject: Happy birthday sidux
Posted: Nov 16, 2007 - 02:57 AM
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Well, actually the birthday wasn't exactly today, but it was pretty close.
The official day was I guess november 24, but if I remember right, behind the scenes it was pretty much a reality about by today 1 year ago, give or take a few days.
http://sidux.com/Article2.html
So how does the first year anniversary look? Steady progress, livecd functionality better than ever, slh and company managing, just barely, to keep sidux users on cutting edge kernels and software.
Nice going. The decision to split from kanotix was clearly the right one for sidux and the team members who decided to pursue this route.
What does the future hold? Who knows, with sid, every year running is a victory as far as I'm concerned, so count this as probably the most victory filled year since kanotix started. Closer to sid, cleaner code, faster boots, better debian compatibility, those pesky 'keep your version or use developer version' questions in dist-upgrade beaten back significantly, thus solving a long standing problem for users.
Most team members seem reasonably well motivated to this point, and the team is bigger than ever, with much more work being done independently, for example, the bluewater manual project comes to mind as a real success that is referred to a lot in the media and reviews, and that's basically all the manual team's doing.
The site has been solid, very few disruptions, so that side of thing is handled well.
Etorix did a nice bit of work setting up the mirrors globally, which also took off very quickly, and that's already becoming very useful, smxi for example recently switched to using the mirrors as primary download location for default kernels, and that saved my butt from some pretty major bandwidth costs, especially now that user base is expanding.
There's a lot more, kelmo's coding wizardry continues to convince me I should probably be doing something else for a living , slh of course continues to be churning out kernels demonically, always struggling to get that perfect blend cooked up in the testing labs.
A good year, all in all, more and more fixes handled by sidux repos now, fewer hacks to core system stuff that might cause long term decay.
So happy birthday. |
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Posted: Nov 16, 2007 - 03:40 AM
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Whoo hoooo..... happy bday to sidux.... happy bday to sidux....
Wildly throws out fishie pops, burnt grilled cheese sammies, m&ms and sidux cds to the screaming crowds. |
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Post subject: Re: Happy birthday sidux
Posted: Nov 16, 2007 - 06:01 AM
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devil recently e-mailed me to say some words about our project we started a while back, so I'll add my 2c worth here to compliment what h2 has already said.
h2 wrote:
So how does the first year anniversary look? Steady progress, livecd functionality better than ever, slh and company managing, just barely, to keep sidux users on cutting edge kernels and software.
Nice going. The decision to split from kanotix was clearly the right one for sidux and the team members who decided to pursue this route.
By becoming a democratic-like project, we are able to follow our own heads, plot our own course and work freely. It was a great move, I agree.
We are still somewhat frowned upon by a few projects and people, I think. We are sometimes considered as being a little hostile, defensive and hackish; at least at no point we were considered boring or lazy. Fun still seems to be had by all involved.
h2 wrote:
What does the future hold? Who knows, with sid, every year running is a victory as far as I'm concerned, so count this as probably the most victory filled year since kanotix started. Closer to sid, cleaner code, faster boots, better debian compatibility, those pesky 'keep your version or use developer version' questions in dist-upgrade beaten back significantly, thus solving a long standing problem for users.
I honestly have no idea what may come next. For me personally, I've pretty much exhausted what I set out to do 9 or so months ago (overhaul/design the live-cd creation + boot process). Time to find new stuff to work on in the realm of sidux desktop usability maybe...
Interestingly, one of the debian honcho's have commented[0] recently that no "wow factor" developments are advertised by recent debian releases, or even persued as part of a particular release's goals. Most each release notes focus on technical advancements that may or may not be noticed by the average user.
I think this is even true for sidux at this point in time. While I don't think we can really actively develop and deploy really large and "beta" quality enhancements like compiz-fusion (nor should we, we should allow debian to sort out the big things, and help out with that where we can), we could spend more time focusing on the look'n'feel of some of our toolkit for performing certain system administration and maintenance tasks. Other ideas escape me atm...someone can help here? What are things that _you_ would like to see improve in the future?
[0] http://gonzo.dicp.de/~he/blog/archives/ ... r-DPL.html
h2 wrote:
Most team members seem reasonably well motivated to this point, and the team is bigger than ever, with much more work being done independently, for example, the bluewater manual project comes to mind as a real success that is referred to a lot in the media and reviews, and that's basically all the manual team's doing.
The manual is really something that surprised me when it took off, and continues to do so. I never thought such a band of random strangers could collaborate and create something so useful and valuable. Even more amazing is that the ring leader is a kiwi...didn't think he had it in him...
h2 wrote:
The site has been solid, very few disruptions, so that side of thing is handled well.
Etorix did a nice bit of work setting up the mirrors globally, which also took off very quickly, and that's already becoming very useful, smxi for example recently switched to using the mirrors as primary download location for default kernels, and that saved my butt from some pretty major bandwidth costs, especially now that user base is expanding.
There's a lot more, kelmo's coding wizardry continues to convince me I should probably be doing something else for a living , slh of course continues to be churning out kernels demonically, always struggling to get that perfect blend cooked up in the testing labs.
A good year, all in all, more and more fixes handled by sidux repos now, fewer hacks to core system stuff that might cause long term decay.
So happy birthday.
"smxi", the maintenance program, is very much responsible for climbing popularity and the extra demands that come along with that. You have done a top job with it h2.
Happy birthday team and community.
Thanks, Kel. |
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Post subject: RE: Re: Happy birthday sidux
Posted: Nov 16, 2007 - 06:26 AM
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H B sidux!
A BIG thank you to the team and the community behind, forum and IRC are great places to learn!
let's enjoy the journey.
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Posted: Nov 16, 2007 - 06:42 AM
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Yes, Happy Birthday to sidux and a great big thank you to all the team members who've worked on sidux to make it the truly great distro it is.
I haven't downloaded another distro since I've been using sidux. Great job!  |
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Posted: Nov 16, 2007 - 07:14 AM
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h2 wrote:
So how does the first year anniversary look? Steady progress, livecd functionality better than ever, slh and company managing, just barely, to keep sidux users on cutting edge kernels and software.
not to forget the work of h2! Thanks to you! great job! |
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Posted: Nov 16, 2007 - 07:16 AM
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"Dear" sidux,
Happy Birthday... Happy Birthday... Happy Birthday to you !!!!
We thank you for this great O/S (distribution) and best user experience offer to us! |
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Posted: Nov 16, 2007 - 12:45 PM
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A year 
sidux makes me old rather quickly 
It is really time to say thank you to all developers and people in the sidux team for the best distribution around. And it is time to raise a glass or two.
kelmo,
the wow factor you talk about are just the shiny spin doctor's toys. If one wants those, there is Sabayon: wow and unmaintainable. But shiny, I must admit.
But what is sidux to me, and I could not dream of it by the time sidux started: it was a new start, but it was the logical continuation of what old Kanotix was, but sidux concentrated to the core values and is developed in an amazing speed:
- reliable Live CD
- rocksolid installations (every pre-release surpasses many other main releases)
- full support for daily upgraders of Sid (that is a WOW factor)
- maintainable and fully qualified for daily use at work and at home
- rolling upgrade path
This is not nothing, this is more or less not achieved by any other distribution. And thanks to the Debian/sidux way, the user is free to decide how he wants to maintain a box. Because of Debian and smxi you can fully upgrade your installation at any time, even after months, more or less without any hickups.
There might be no shiny marketing 3D desktop for shiny magazines and shiny reviews, but Gaia and Eros are long lasting beauties, still use default artwork on two of my boxes and I just do not get annoyed with it. Shiny beryl was wow for two days, but on the third it always started to interfere with my workflow. I still prefer 2D with virtual desktops.
Also I like the incremental development of sidux. Just what I saw with eros pre1:
- RandR & my new notebook: goes automatically 1366x768 ... WOW [1]
- "fromiso and persistant" ... I really have to test that one
[1] where are the times when I had to fight with the 855/910resolution patch?
What could I think of from an end user view? Maybe for newcomers an option "network-manager-kde yes/no" might be helpful. I definitely prefer wpa-roaming, but that's not a quickie to setup for network roaming. For a quick use (esp. in live modus) it's very convenient. Dunno ... maybe it's just me who uses notebooks in public places as well
That's all I can think about at the moment, and again:
Let's raise the glass to the sidux team for their meticulous and fabulous work!
hubi |
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Posted: Nov 16, 2007 - 01:17 PM
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hubi wrote:
kelmo,
the wow factor you talk about are just the shiny spin doctor's toys. If one wants those, there is Sabayon: wow and unmaintainable. But shiny, I must admit.
True, I just chose a topical example (compiz and friends).
cleary and I recently discussed the overall appearance of the applications in our distro compared to others. One comment was that some of our tools looked "disparate" (ie, a bunch of not-alike looking tools).
We have consolidated on using ssft in places where Xdialog was used for some tools, but too often we are finding that GTK toolkit is providing better support for "working" tools than QT/KDE counterparts. Not a big issue, but an obvious visual issue in a KDE-centric environment.
Thankfully (and should be mentioned in this thread also), xadras began the sidux control centre. This unifies alot of tools into one nice central area of system information and control.
This is the kind of area I think we could provide extra "wow" factor.
However, one must be careful that this kind of thing doesn't go too far and try to do too much... |
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