Posted by : devil on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 - 06:24 AM

Following hard on the heels of the meta-manual going 'live',
the sidux Operating System manual in Portuguese-Brazil pt-br goes 'live' with ceti as the translator and maintainer

ceti started to work to translate the manual to Portuguese-br 6 weeks ago, and on his own.and has translated 75% of the manual, which consists of 39 files in total (to date) and if printed would run to 230 +pages per translation,

ceti, considering you had a 2 week vacation in the middle of the translating cycle, you have completed an incredible amount of work in a short time!

All pt-br and also -pt speakers and your country should be very, very impressed and proud of you.

Congratulations on a job done exceedingly well done.

Stand up and take a bow!.

On behalf of the sidux Team
Trevor Walkley
bluewater

Posted by : etorix on Saturday, August 25, 2007 - 09:41 AM

sidux now has more mirrors for better access to the ISOs, kernels and the debian repository. Please use the closest mirror. If anyone can provide additional download mirrors, especially in the south america and the pacific region, it would be appreciated. Please contact us if you're able to provide a mirror capable of enduring heavy volume ISO downloads.

THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT: sidux, as a Linux LIVE-CD, is based on high compression technology, and because of that, special care is needed when burning the ISO image. Only use high quality CD-media [or DVD+RW] and burn in DAO-mode (disk-at-once) and not faster than x8.

Posted by : x-un-i on Friday, August 24, 2007 - 10:31 PM

The sidux meta-manual is up!


The sidux meta-manual is up and running! It is available in English only at the moment as it has not been translated yet.

The bulk of the meta-manual is due to the vision of zulu9 who also manages the games- and phonetics- meta-packages.

Off the 124 files that make up the meta-manual 100 are due those two meta-packages.areas.

Posted by : slh on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 - 07:58 PM

A last minute update of xine-lib (1.1.7-2) in debian sid has dropped all previous dependencies of libxine1 on its required audio/ video plugins to "Recommends" (in preparation of implementing "Installation of Recommends by default on October 1st") and caused our initial sidux 2007-03 "Γαια" release to lose out-of-the box support for audio/ video playback (#437693). Already existing installations of 2007-03 "Γαια" can be fixed by updating "libxine1", "libxine1-ffmpeg" and fixing the group membership for "video".

apt-get update
apt-get install libxine1 libxine1-ffmpeg
sed -i "s/\,sidux/\,$(getent passwd 1000 | cut -d\: -f1)/" /etc/group

This updated hotfix release fixes the audio/ video problems for live purposes and is targeted at preventing these issues for new installations.

After less than 3 months of development, we are proud to announce the immediate availability of the sidux 2007-03 "Γαια" release for amd64 and i686 systems, shipping in a ≈440 MB lite KDE and a ≈700 MB full KDE flavor. sidux is a full featured debian sid based live CD with a special focus on hard disk installations, a clean upgrade path within sid and additional hard- and software support.

Posted by : slh on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 - 02:06 PM

After less than 3 months of development, we are proud to announce the immediate availability of the sidux 2007-03 "Γαια" release for amd64 and i686 systems, shipping in a ≈440 MB lite KDE and a ≈700 MB full KDE flavor. sidux is a full featured Debian sid based live CD with a special focus on hard disk installations, a clean upgrade path within sid and additional hard- and software support.