Siduction

Siducion è una distribuzione Linux basata su Debian “unstable” orientata al desktop e che offre ben 4 differenti Desktop Manger: KDE, LXDE, XFCE, Razon-qt. In particolare è nata come fork di Aptosid per facilitare l’installazione ed è sempre una rolling release.

Versione 18.2.0

Questa versione contiene:

Today we are proud to release siduction 2018.2.0 with the flavours KDE, LXQt, GNOME, Cinnamon, MATE, Xfce, Lxde, Xorg and noX. The released images are a snapshot of Debian unstable, that also goes by the name of Sid, from 2018-03-04. They are enhanced with some useful packages and scripts, an installer based on Calamares and a custom patched version of the linux-kernel 4.15.7, accompanied by X-Server 1.19.5 and systemd 237.4.

KDE Plasma stands at version 5.12.2, while GNOME comes in at 3.26 with some packages still at 3.24. LXQt ships at 0.12.0 and Xfce at 4.12.4, while Cinnamon comes in at 3.4.6 and MATE at 1.20.0. Sadly, right now, GNOME, MATE and LXDE are largely unmaintained. If noone steps up to keep them in a releaseable state, we might have to drop these flavours with our next release. The corresponding packages will stay in the archives.
This release comes with the name “patience 2018.2.0”. How we deal with this in the future is unclear. The next release will ship whatever we come up with. Maybe it’ll be just numbers…

Release Highlights

Meltdown & Spectre

Shortly after our last release 2018.1.0 the world made acquaintance with two vulnerabilities that will stay with us for a long time. In mitigating Meltdown & Spectre, siduction was as close to the kernel as possible to be able to get fixes in as soon as they roll out. Kernel 4.15.7 has most of the bases covered, even though there will be more coming with 4.16 expected in April.
For users to be able to easily check the status of your system regarding Meltdown & Spectre, we added the package spectre-meltdown-checker to the image. Just call it as root and you will see at a glance where we are in that regard.

Plasma 5.12, KF 5.42

We are happy to say, KDE moved up a notch in Debian and Plasma 5.12 entered Sid, accompanied by KDE Frameworks 5.42. Plasma 5.12 is a LTS release and has some nice improvements. The dash now has an extra tab which integrates plasmoids in the menu. Plasma 5.12 feels more snappy, needs less CPU and memory resources. Flatpak is fully integrated in Discover.

Ceni removed

We have removed Ceni (for setting up /etc/network/interfaces/) from all flavours but noX and Xorg. It interfers with Network-Manager and speaks only IPv4. Besides that it is easy enough to get a dhcp lease with dhclient, if you have a network cable at hand. You can still find Ceni in the archive, should you want to install it.

Risorse

La distribuzione può essere scaricata da:

• 64 bit KDE (2,2 GB): http://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/siduction/iso/patience/kde/amd64_2018-03-07_23-23/siduction-18.2.0-patience-kde-amd64-201803072323.iso
• 64 bit LXDE (1,6 GB): http://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/siduction/iso/patience/lxde/amd64_2018-03-08_19-48/siduction-18.2.0-patience-lxde-amd64-201803081948.iso
• 64 bit LXQT (1,1 GB): http://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/siduction/iso/patience/lxqt/amd64_2018-03-07_23-40/siduction-18.2.0-patience-lxqt-amd64-201803072340.iso
• 64 bit XFCE (1,7GB): http://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/siduction/iso/patience/xfce/amd64_2018-03-08_00-00/siduction-18.2.0-patience-xfce-amd64-201803080000.iso
• 64 bit MATE (1,8G): http://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/siduction/iso/patience/mate/amd64_2018-03-07_23-48/siduction-18.2.0-patience-mate-amd64-201803072348.iso
• 64 bit Gnome (2 GB): http://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/siduction/iso/patience/gnome/amd64_2018-03-07_23-14/siduction-18.2.0-patience-gnome-amd64-201803072314.iso
• 64 bit Cinnamon (1,7 GB): http://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/siduction/iso/patience/cinnamon/amd64_2018-03-07_23-06/siduction-18.2.0-patience-cinnamon-amd64-201803072306.iso

Il sito web della distribuzione è: http://siduction.org/

Screenshot

siduction 16.1.0

Conclusioni

Le modalità di rilascio cambieranno per permettere che ogni ambiente desktop sia rilasciato appena è pronto.