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sidux 2008-1 Launched

This release sports improved hardware support

By Daniel Voicu, Linux Editor

14th of April 2008, 08:47 GMT

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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.

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