Sidux

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Sidux
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Derivative of: Debian Sid
Managed by: Sidux e.V.

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Current Stable Release: sidux 2007-03.1

sidux is based on Debian 'sid' GNU/Linux, and holds fast to the core values and social contract of Debian.

You no longer need to wait for a new release to always have the latest of anything, including kernels. Once you have installed sidux, all it needs is a dist-upgrade, which is a system-wide software update from debian and sidux. This means that re-installing yet another release every 6-12 months on your PC is unnecessary with sidux, as the weekly or monthly dist-upgrade brings everything up-to-date, except the kernel; which may be upgraded separately as required.

As it is, an install with sidux usually does not take longer than 20 minutes, being less than 5 minutes in modern computers.

sidux offers 4 up-to-date live-cd entry point release variations, these are:

  • 32 bit lite
  • 32 bit full
  • 64 bit lite
  • 64 bit full

With the 'way of sidux', you will be always up to date and have the very best that sidux together with Debian 'sid' can offer:

sidux "Gaia" modified desktop
sidux "Gaia" modified desktop
  • Detects and enables you to instantly use more different pieces of hardware than any other operating system today (including other Linuxes), without the need to search for drivers from hardware vendors' web sites or complicated installation routines. Everything comes ready on a fast live-CD, and can be installed to your hard drive in just a few minutes. Only non-free stuff may require additional action.
  • Gives you direct and 100% compatible access to the worlds' largest repository of software packages (more than 17.000 at the moment in Debian Sid), all of them free and open source, many of them of professional quality. No viruses, no trojans - and again, no complicated searching of hundreds of web sites for an application, and running dubious installers.
  • Is free and open source and comes with free & priceless 24/7 support via this forum and chat (the IRC). Our support staff is friendly, helpful and very highly skilled - some of them are developers of this operating system themselves, and others are accessible for complicated escalated support issues.
  • Is not corporate but community driven. Actually, we are a community of volunteers who share a common goal - building the most brilliant operating system possible.
  • Is extremely flexible and offers a bus-load of ready-made scripts and meta-packages. You may use them to mutate it into a secure server system, a high class music studio, a professional graphics design workstation, a corporate desktop - or whatever you actually need.
  • Is always bleeding edge technology, packed into a tested and stable combination which is ready for use. It is moving very fast, and will always bring you the hippest and most interesting developments first. sidux is also one of the few operating systems where you can get a 64bit system with real 64bit compiled applications - and again providing 100% compatible access to Debian Sid.
  • Is multilingual - people from all over the world meet here and speak their native language, but also second languages. We believe in the power of shared and open communication and therefore don't split the community by countries or languages, but concentrate them. Many people here do speak several languages and are using them when helping you.

Contents

Releases

  • sidux-2007-01 "Χάος" - - - - - - released 2007-02-21 (chaos)
  • sidux-2007-02 "Τάρταρος" - - released 2007-05-28 (tartaros)
  • sidux-2007-03.1 "Γαῖα" - - - - - released 2007-08-15 (gaia)
  • sidux-2007-04 "Ἔρως" — calendar week 41-42 2007 (eros)
  • sidux-2008-01 "Νύξ" — calendar week 3-4 2008 (nyx)
  • sidux-2008-02 "Έρεβος" — calendar week 15-16-2008 (erebus)

Hints for Non-Free software

sidux contains only dfsg free software, so you'll probably want to add contrib/ non-free to your /etc/apt/sources.list and ensure internet access. 

# See sources.list(5) for more information, especially
# Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs
# CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool.

# Unstable
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
# deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free

# sidux
deb http://sidux.com/debian/ sid main contrib non-free firmware fix.main fix.contrib fix.non-free
#deb-src http://sidux.com/debian/ sid main contrib non-free firmware fix.main fix.contrib fix.non-free

The required firmware can be determined with the following device/ firmware enumeration or by using the newly developed fw-detect script (packaged in configure-networkcard).

  • ATi Radeon graphics:
    3d acceleration for older cards up to r35x should work, newer Radeon X1xxx cards need non-free drivers for accelerated performance which are not yet compatible with X.org 7.2. Depending on the particular chipset "xmodule=vesa" or "xmodule=fbdev" as cheatcode might be in order for later Radeon X1xxx models.
  • Atheros/ "madwifi" wlan:
    m-a a-i madwifi
  • Atmel AT76c50x 11 MBit/s wlan:
    apt-get install atmel-firmware
  • Broadcom/ bcm43xx wlan:
    apt-get install bcm43xx-fwcutter
  • Eagle USB ADSL modem:
    fetch the firmware from here and place it under /lib/firmware/.
  • DVB firmware for various full featured DVB TV cards (most budget cards won't need this):
    fetch the needed firmware (check dmesg) from here and place it under /lib/firmware/.
  • Intel ipw2100, 11 MBit/s wlan:
    apt-get install ipw2100-firmware
  • Intel ipw2200, 54 MBit/s wlan:
    apt-get install ipw2200-firmware
  • Intel ipw3945/ iwlwifi, 54 Mbit/s wlan:
    apt-get install firmware-iwlwifi

    please remove iwlwifi-ucode and iwlwifi-3945, if already installed.

  • Intel ipw4965/ iwlwifi, draft-n wlan:
    apt-get install firmware-iwlwifi

    please remove iwlwifi-4965, if already installed. Feedback regarding iwlwifi 3945 and iwlwifi 4965 is always appreciated.

  • Intersil prism54, 54 MBit/s wlan:
    fetch the firmware from here and place it under /lib/firmware/.
  • nVidia graphics:
    3d acceleration isn't possible with free drivers yet, please use "get-sidux-binary-gfx && install-binary-gfx -a" or "sgfxi" to fetch install scripts for these cards.
  • RaLink rt61 54 MBit/s wlan:
    apt-get install rt61-fwcutter
  • RaLink rt73 54 MBit/s wlan:
    apt-get install rt73-fwcutter
  • Texas Instruments ACX100 (22 Mbit/s)/ ACX111 (54 MBit/s) wlan:
    fetch the firmware from here and place it under /lib/firmware/.
  • ZyDAS zd1201 11 MBit/s wlan:
    fetch the firmware from here and place it under /lib/firmware/.
  • ZyDAS zd1211 54 MBit/s wlan:
    apt-get install zd1211-firmware

We try to provide packages for legally redistributable firmware from our non-free repositories, but not all vendors allow this.

smxi script

View main article: smxi script

smxi is a general utility script that handles the standard system upkeep for debian sid based sidux - kernel installs, dist-upgrade etc, package installs, cleanup, and graphics install. Has logging options, and will create logs on error of key parts. Debian testing conversions (Lenny, currently) can still be run using the script -C option, but are unsupported, but do basically work, if you follow the steps correctly. However, the official policy is to not support crossgrading from other distros.

Download

Europe

North America

Africa

IRC

The official IRC channel sidux can be found here:

Network: irc.oftc.net<br>
Port: 6667<br>
channel: #sidux

External Links

Sidux homepage

Last Release Information

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