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siduction 16.1.0

6 Gennaio 2017

KDE, LXDE, Siduction, XFCE

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 16.1.0

Questa versione contiene:

Today we present to you the first batch of siduction 2016.1, which consists of the flavours noX, Xorg, LXDE, Xfce and Plasma 5. We attempt to release a 2nd batch with the flavours Gnome, Cinnamon, Mate and LXQt as soon as possible in the new year. This release of siduction 2016.1 is named Patience, because that is what you and us both needed to find the right point in time to ship this to you.

The released images are a snapshot of Debian unstable, that also goes by the name of Sid, from 2016-12-23. They are enhanced with some useful packages and scripts, our own installer and a custom patched version of the linux-kernel 4.9, accompanied by X-Server 1.19.0-3 and systemd 232-8.

Changes that affect all flavours
In the wake of the upcoming Wayland display server, that will replace the old Xorg-Server, the way input devices are handled, has changed. The new way to handle devices like Mice, Touchpads, Wacom Tablets, and the like was developed by Red Hat developer Peter Hutterer and is called libinput If you look into /etc/X11/xorgconf.d/60-libinput.conf, you will see that we implemented a basic config, that supports some touchpad actions, but not all. If you miss anything, look at the above link, that has ways to set up other actions. Another change over all flavours is the use of SDDM as Display- and Login-Manager, which is the new default for Plasma, but suits the other flavours fine as well.

A brief look at the flavours

Plasma 5
Some still call it KDE, but to be correct, we want to call it Plasma 5, KDE Frameworks and KDE Applications. Plasma 5 is the part that we mostly interact with. Frameworks is the former kdelibs and Applications speaks for itself. Today we ship Plasma 5.8.4-1, Frameworks 5.28 and Applications 16.08-3

No other desktop environment was as keeping us from a release as much as Plasma 5. Transitions and lots of upgrades made it really hard to find a calm spot in time to release for us. Our friends from the debian-kde-qt team stayed very close to upstream releases (thanks for that!). That enables us to release a very uptodate KDE experience and it is not too far fetched to say this is the best release of KDE software ever. Latest changes include the use of single keys like CTRL, ALT or the super key to create actions that usualy needs a key combination. This new feature is not yet fully configurable, but one example that is already implemented is the super key, that will open the dashboard for you. Plasma 5.9, to be released in January 2017.

Another little x-mas candy is the integration of KDE Connect into siduction. This is a nifty little tool to connect your mobile devices with your desktop, including nice features like turning down the volume of whatever is playing when a phone call comes in or answering text messages (sms) from your phone on the desktop. To use KDE Connect, you need to install the android app on your phone and then configure the widget sitting in the system tray on your desktop.

There is a little tear mixed into the joy and that is wept because of KDEPIM. As most Plasma users know, the PIM-Suite was plagued with bugs for a long time. That has not really changed to a point where it just works out of the box. We put MySQL in place of sqlite for the Akonadi backend. Kmail works on the live media, but anything you set up for Kmail or Akonadi before installing to hard disk will be lost. The reason for that is that at install time we drop the database to make it Kmail work after install. Also, be carefull, should you use Kmail with pop3, mails marked as read might disappear. More improvement might come as soon as Applications 16.12 enters Sid. The PIM-Suite was split into 18 packages and that change is shipped with the latest update to Applications.

LXDE and Xfce
The lightweight flavour LXDE, which stands for Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment is shipped in the latest version 0.99.1, released in February 2016, with parts being updated throughout 2016. XFCE, which is a bit heavier, but still considerably leaner than Plasma, GNOME or Cinnamon, comes in version 4.12.3. Xfce is the last desktop environment that still builds from GTK+ 2, since MATE recently migrated to GTK+ 3.

noX and Xorg
These two flavours are for users who like to have custom build setups. noX has no Xorg-stack, so no desktop environment or window manager. Xorg is equipped with a Xorg-stack and the Fluxbox window manager. Besides that both flavours deliver the same full set of tools as the bigger flavours.

Risorse

La distribuzione può essere scaricata da:

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

Screenshot

siduction 16.1.0

siduction 16.1.0

Conclusioni

Sono compresi di default anche i software non free in modo che l’utente possa usare l’hardware senza problemi.

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