14 DAY TRIAL // Siduction 2013.2 RC1, a Linux distribution that ships with four desktop environments, KDE, XFCE LXDE, GNOME, and Razor-Qt, for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, has been announced.
Siduction 2013.1 has been dubbed December and is based on Debian's unstable branch. The developer’s goal is to try and release snapshots quarterly.
“Siduction 2013.2 RC1 – December is shipped with 5 Desktop-Environments: KDE SC, XFCE, LXDE, Razor-Qt and GNOME, all in 32- and 64-bit variants. From the shipped DEs this time around only LXDE fits on a CD with 700 MegaByte,” reads the official announcement.
The team also decided to switch to Systemd before the Debian developers had a chance to choose between Systemd or Upstart.
“New in this release cycle is the use of Systemd. While debian is still discussing, what init system to use in the future, siduction has decided to go with Systemd. It brings the most advantages for us, besides that, even if Debian should decide to go with Upstart, we will not follow them there.”
“Until we have a section on Systemd in our manual, we will help you out with some of the most used commands further down this note,” also said the developers.
Highlights of Siduction 2013.2 RC1:
• Logging is now done with Systemd Journal; • The distribution is now based on Sid, from 2013-12-22; • Linux kernel has been updated to version 3.12-6; • X.org Server has been updated to version 1.14.5-1; • noX is now an official release, which was introduced first in October 2012 as development release; • Xfce is now being shipped in version 4.10.1; • KDE SC has been updated to version 4.11.4; • Razor-Qt is still on a slightly modified version 0.5.2, which has better plugins and overall functionality; • This is the last version to feature LXDE.
Check out the official announcement for a complete list of changes and updates. Download Siduction 2013.2 RC1 right now from Softpedia.
Remember that this is a development version and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended for testing purposes only.