14 DAY TRIAL // Stefan Lippers-Hollmann, one of the main developers from sidux, has announced the availability of sidux 2008-1. This distribution is based on Debian's unstable branch.
Although it took longer than planned, sidux 2008-1 was launched two days ago, available in two kde-lite editions for amd64 and i386 that are almost 435 MB in size, and a combined i386+amd64 flavor that's approximately 1,5 GB large, with KDE full.
This release is powered by the Linux kernel 2.6.24.4, a brand-new in-house build system and a lot of functionality improvements and bugfixes. The desktop environment used by sidux is KDE 3.5.9, the latest version from the 3.5 branch of KDE.
Here is a list with the most important changes in sidux 2008-1:
? amd64 (AMD64, Intel Core2, newer 64-bit capable AMD Sempron and Intel Pentium 4 CPUs (watch for the "lm" flag in /proc/cpuinfo or use infobash -v3) and i686 (Pentium pro/ Pentium II, AMD K7 Athlon or newer)). ? Debian sid, as of 2008-04-11. ? kernel 2.6.24.4 (smp, hard preemption). ? X.org 7.3. ? KDE 3.5.9 (en + de). ? new, SVG based, artwork. ? dissolution of the previous "sidux" menu into the corresponding XDG categories, allowing broader window manager support and XDG compliance. ? offline manual for en + de directly on the disc. ? many changes for the manual. ? iwlwifi3945/ iwlwifi4965 support. ? b43/ b43legacy support for Broadcom wlan cards. ? rt2x00 support for RaLink cards. ? support for RealTek RTL8180L and RTL8185 PCI/ cardbus wlan cards. ? support for RealTek RTL8187 USB wlan cards. ? support for ADMtek ADM8211 PCI/ cardbus wlan cards. ? support for IPWireless 3G UMTS PCMCIA cards. ? support for HSDPA Broadband Wireless Data (Globe Trotter) cards. ? e1000e support for Intel 82801I, 82566DM-2, 82562GT-2, 82562G-2 and 82562V-2 Gigabit Ethernet cards (ICH9). ? support for Logitech Quickcam Orbit, Logitech Quickcam Pro for Notebooks, Logitech Quickcam Pro 5000, Asus Eee PC webcams (linux-uvc). ? driver support for Ricoh R5U870 OEM webcams ? fw-detect to probe for hardware with non-free needs. ? memtest86+. ? overhauled partition and file system detection. ? /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ superseding the monolithic /etc/apt/sources.list. ? VirtualBox-ose-guest 1.5.6 support. ? bitsetting/ xrandr settings for ATi and Intel cards. ? basic lvm2 detection and install support on exististing logical volumes. ? Ceni as primary tool for handling network devices. ? consistent switch to Debian's "su-to-root" instead of using custom su wrappers. ? new build system. ? fixed problems with grub-install. ? resolvconf support to handle DNS discovery. ? new interpretation of the graphics detection.
Download sidux 2008-1 right now from Softpedia.