February 2007 donation: sidux receives US$350 (distrowatch.com)

We are pleased to announce that the recipient of the DistroWatch.com February 2007 donations is the sidux project (US$350.00).



Despite being a very young distribution (sidux split from KANOTIX just a few months ago), the overwhelming support among the DistroWatch Weekly readers last week suggests that sidux is on a right track. The project delivered its first stable release, version 2007-01, two weeks ago and it has also published a roadmap promising four stable release per year. It is clear that the idea of developing an installable live CD based on Debian's unstable branch (sid) has been well received in the Debian user community.

Shortly after making the donation, we received this email from Chris Hildebrandt: "In the name of the sidux Foundation, and all nice people involved in the sidux project I would like to very much thank you, the DistroWatch community and your sponsors for your generous donation! Thanks also for your initial trust and interest in sidux witch helped us getting more public attention." The project has also published an announcement about the donation.



As always, the monthly donations programme is a joint initiative between DistroWatch and three online shops selling low-cost CDs and DVDs with Linux, BSD and other open source software - LinuxCD.org, OSDisc.com and TheLinuxShop.co.uk. The three CD/DVD vendors contributed US$50.00 each towards this month's donation to sidux.



Here is the list of projects that received a DistroWatch donation since the launch of the programme:

• 03/2004: GnuCash (US$250)


• 04/2004: Quanta Plus (US$200)


• 05/2004: PCLinuxOS (US$300)


• 06/2004: The GIMP (US$300)


• 07/2004: Vidalinux (US$200)


• 08/2004: Fluxbox (US$200)


• 09/2004: K3b (US$350)


• 10/2004: Arch Linux (US$300)


• 11/2004: Kile KDE LaTeX Editor (US$100)


• 12/2004: UNICEF - Tsunami Relief Operation (US$340)


• 01/2005: Vim (US$250)


• 02/2005: AbiWord (US$220)


• 03/2005: BitTorrent (US$300)


• 04/2005: NdisWrapper (US$250)


• 05/2005: Audacity (US$250)


• 06/2005: Debian GNU/Linux (US$420)


• 07/2005: GNOME (US$425)


• 08/2005: Enlightenment (US$250)


• 09/2005: MPlayer (US$400)


• 10/2005: Amarok (US$300)


• 11/2005: KANOTIX (US$250)


• 12/2005: Cacti (US$375)


• 01/2006: Gambas (US$250), Krusader (US$250)


• 02/2006: FreeBSD Foundation (US$450)


• 03/2006: GParted (US$360)


• 04/2006: Doxygen (US$260)


• 05/2006: LilyPond (US$250) and Lua (US$250)


• 06/2006: Gentoo Linux (US$500)


• 07/2006: Blender (US$500)


• 08/2006: Puppy Linux (US$350)


• 09/2006: Inkscape (US$350), Cape Linux Users Group (US$130)


• 10/2006: Mandriva Linux 2007 PowerPack Competition (US$405)


• 11/2006: digiKam (US$408)


• 12/2006: SabayonLinux (US$450)


• 01/2007: GQview (US$250) and Kaffeine (US$250)


• 02/2007: sidux (US$350)