Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:47:58 +0000 http://www.silvergeeks.com/ sidux.com en-us http://www.silvergeeks.com/images/hack.png http://www.silvergeeks.com/ forum@sidux.com http://www.silvergeeks.com/Article478.html We are pleased to present to you during the holiday season sidux-dvd 2008-04 "Πόντος". This version brings a lot of technical novelties as well as an extended list of applications specialy from the educational sector. Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:47:58 +0000 http://www.silvergeeks.com/Article470.html After fixing the problem with multiple optical disc drives, which occured in our first preview, and quite some infrastructural changes, we now have the pleasure to announce the immediate availability of sidux 2008-04 "Πόντος", available in the following flavours: KDE-lite, amd64, en/ de, ≈460 MB. KDE-lite, i686, en/ de, ≈455 MB. KDE-full, amd64+i686, en/ de (da, el, es, fr, hr, it, ja, nl, pt, pt_BR, ro, ru through liveapt) ≈1.9 GB. XFCE, amd64, en/ de, ≈400 MB. XFCE, i686, en/ de, ≈395 MB. 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. The ISO is completely based on Debian sid, enriched and stabilized with sidux' own packages and scripts. Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:20:00 +0000 http://www.silvergeeks.com/Article464.html After quite some infrastructural changes is sidux 2008-04 "Πόντος" now ready to enter the preview season, available in the following flavours for now: KDE-lite, amd64, en/ de, ≈460 MB. KDE-lite, i686, en/ de, ≈455 MB. XFCE-lite, amd64+i686, ≈685 MB. Please note this is not the final release, the full featured final release of "Πόντος" will be ready in about 1-2 weeks, further previews might be provided as needed until then. 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. The ISO is completely based on Debian sid, enriched and stabilized with sidux' own packages and scripts. Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:38:57 +0000 http://www.silvergeeks.com/Article460.html "On 24th of November 2006 sidux was formed by a group of people who strive to do the impossible: Making Debian Sid (aka “Unstable”) stable." Now, 2 years later, while we celebrate sidux' second birthday, it's time to check if we actually kept our promise to you: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:25:00 +0000 http://www.silvergeeks.com/Article459.html Today, while refactoring the sidux installer, a potential local privilege escalation issue has been discovered, which leaves a copy of the installer's configuration file on the target system. This configuration file also contains the salted MD5 password hashes for root and the first user account (UID 1000) and remains readable for local users. While this does not reveal these passwords directly, it can be used for a brute force attack against them. Affected releases: 2007-01 Χάος 2007-02 Τάρταρς 2007-03/ 2007-03.1 Γάια 2007-04/ 2007-04.5 Έρως 2008-01 Νυξ 2008-02 Έρεβος 2008-03 Ουρέα Fix:# find /root /home -maxdepth 2 -type f -name '.sidconf*' -delete Especially on multi-user systems, it is recommended to change the passwords for root and the first user (UID 1000) as well, this can be done using "passwd" as root/ user. The cause for this issue has been found and upcoming releases will not be affected. Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:39:07 +0000 http://www.silvergeeks.com/Article454.html Later than planned (due to a hard to find bug in virtualbox-ose), we now have the pleasure to announce the immediate availability of the sidux 2008-03 "Ουρέα" release, available in the following flavours: KDE-lite, amd64, en/ de, ≈485 MB. KDE-lite, i686, en/ de, ≈480 MB. KDE-full, amd64+i686, en/ de (da, el, es, fr, hr, it, ja, nl, pt, pt_BR, ro, ru through liveapt) ≈2 GB. XFCE, amd64, en/ de, ≈400 MB. XFCE, i686, en/ de, ≈400 MB. 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. The ISO is completely based on Debian sid, enriched and stabilized with sidux' own packages and scripts. Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:30:19 +0000 http://www.silvergeeks.com/Article450.html Later than planned (due to a hard to find bug in virtualbox-ose), sidux 2008-03 "Ουρέα" is now ready to enter the preview season for amd64 and i686 systems. As usual the previews are shipping only as a small (≈460 MB), but fully functional, KDE-lite flavour, accompanied by a ≈695 MB large combined xfce-lite flavour for amd64+i386. 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. The ISO is completely based on Debian sid, enriched and stabilized with sidux' own packages and scripts. Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:28:28 +0000 http://www.silvergeeks.com/Article449.html The Ourea Wallpaper competition has run, and a winner has been chosen. First off, I would like to thank all entrants for their submissions - there is artistic talent out there and I appreciate everyone who took the time to apply their skills for this competition :-) Unfortunately, there can only be one winner... Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:05:05 +0000 http://www.silvergeeks.com/Article448.html The Greek -el (Ελληνικά) version of the the sidux Operating System manual hits the sidux site with grigris and edhunter as the translators and maintainers. Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:05:08 +0000 http://www.silvergeeks.com/Article445.html Hi folks! It's that time again, when we ask sidux users to break out the stylus' and create something spectacular for the annual sidux User Wallpaper Competition. The competition winner will have their creation included as the default wallpaper for the upcoming 2008-03 "Ουρέα" release Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:50:24 +0000 http://www.silvergeeks.com/Article440.html A little later than planned due to a number of library transitions in Debian/ sid, we now have the pleasure to announce the immediate availability of sidux 2008-02 "Έρεβος", shipping in roughly ≈470 MB kde-lite flavours for amd64 and i386 (i686), a combined i386+amd64 release with ≈1.5 GB KDE for kde-full and, as usual, an xdelta to add initial localisations for all currently supported languages. Enhancing the sidux family, a roughly ≈420 MB large XFCE variant has been added for amd64 and i386 (i686) for the first time. 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. The ISO is completely based on Debian sid, enriched and stabilized with sidux' own packages and scripts. Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:01:40 +0000 http://www.silvergeeks.com/Article437.html A little later than planned, sidux 2008-02 "Έρεβος" is now ready to enter the preview season for amd64 and i686 systems. As usual the previews are shipping only as a small (≈460 MB), but fully functional, KDE-lite flavour, to ease up testing and xdelta uploads and will be accompanied by the combined ≈1.5 GB KDE-full variant for the final release. 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. The ISO is completely based on Debian sid, enriched and stabilized with sidux' own packages and scripts. Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:54:22 +0000 http://www.silvergeeks.com/Article434.html As some of you might have seen in todays news, Debian had a serious problem with SSL Keys. Good reference and ways to fix it are online. Please follow their advice, its a serious topic. Wed, 14 May 2008 01:30:38 +0000 http://www.silvergeeks.com/Article429.html The Italian -it version of the the sidux Operating System manual hits the sidux site with zenren and speedygeo as translators and maintainers !!!! The Italian version of sidux-manuals has been in the works for nearly 14 months. It was started by alessiog75, then dedo picked it up, (unfortunately he could not continue either), followed months later by fortalomo whom has subsequently moved continents. Then along came speedygeo and zenren. zenren really put the foot to the floor in true Italian fashion! Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:23:38 +0000 http://www.silvergeeks.com/Article428.html sidux e.V. is pleased to announce the release of the second edition of sidux-DVD. The sidux-DVD is a loosely updated project that incorporates both 32 bit and 64 bit in one Iso. Based on the current Nyx release it presents an enhanced package list of KDE apps and, in addition to the first release. Included are language environments for the following languages: en_AU, en_GB, da_DK, de_DE, es_ES, en_US, fr_FR, hr_HR, ja_JP, nl_NL, pt_BR,, pt_PT, ro_RO and ru_RU This DVD release is not available for download but only in the sidux Webshop Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:15:04 +0000 http://www.silvergeeks.com/Article422.html sidux e.V. is pleased to present to you today the first version of sidux-seminarix here for download. This is a educational project that merges Seminarix with the base of sidux. Seminarix is aimed at schooling teachers as well as pupils with free and open software to make computer training in schools less costly and more effective. The project was initiated in March 2007 by Wolf-Dieter Zimmermann, who works in the education of students for a teaching credential. First based upon Kubuntu, sidux e.V. started to port it to sidux with the help of teachers and interested users. With sidux as a powerfull free and open Linux distribution the Seminarix project now has a fast, easy to maintain and always current base. Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:51:05 +0000 http://www.silvergeeks.com/Article416.html A lot later than planned, but now we have the pleasure to announce the immediate availability of sidux 2008-01 "Νυξ", shipping in roughly ≈435 MB kde-lite flavours for amd64 and i386 (i686), a combined i386+amd64 release with ≈1470 MB KDE for kde-full and an xdelta to add initial localisations for all currently supported languages. 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. The ISO is completely based on Debian sid, enriched and stabilized with sidux' own packages and scripts. Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:52:22 +0000 http://www.silvergeeks.com/Article414.html It was exactly one year ago today when the sidux e. V. founders came together to hold their first constitutive meeting at IRC #sidux-ev. Immediately the first version of its Statutes was passed leading to the establishing of the Association (e. V.). Apart from distributing free software, it is sidux e. V. aim, to support the sidux project financially as well as in legal matters. Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:43:24 +0000 http://www.silvergeeks.com/Article410.html Now that KDE 3.5.9 and a working version of qt-x11-free 3.3.8 are available in Debian sid, we have the pleasure to announce the second public preview of sidux 2008-01 "Νυξ", shipping in a roughly ≈460 MB large kde-lite variant for amd64 and i386 systems. Please note this is not the final release, the full featured final release of "Νυξ" will be ready in about 1-2 weeks, intermediate xdeltas will be provided as needed until then. 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. The ISO is completely based on Debian sid, enriched and stabilized with sidux' own packages and scripts. Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:37:57 +0000 http://www.silvergeeks.com/Article403.html What has originally been planned as minor maintenance release with the bumped kernel version as major feature, resulted in much larger changes for sidux 2008-01 "Νυξ". Now we have the pleasure to announce the first public preview of sidux 2008-01, shipping in a roughly ≈460 MB large kde-lite variant for amd64 and i386 systems. Please note this is not the final release, the full featured final release of "Νυξ" will be ready in about 2-3 weeks (depending on the availability of KDE 3.5.9 in Debian sid), intermediate xdeltas will be provided as needed until then. 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. The ISO is completely based on Debian sid, enriched and stabilized with sidux' own packages and scripts. Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:13:24 +0000 http://www.silvergeeks.com/Article401.html Today 1 year ago, the first final Release sidux-2007-01 Χάος saw the light of day. Since then much effort has been put in sidux developement to be soon continued with more debian compatability by introducing aptable kernels. We wish sidux a long life and all users ongoing fun and success with it. on behalf of the sidux team: devil Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:16:01 +0000 http://www.silvergeeks.com/Article390.html We are pleased to announce the release of a sidux DVD. The DVD holds a ~4 GB sized ISO as multiarch (32 and 64 bit in one ISO) which contains a big variety of KDE apps and other interesting programs and tools mainly for graphics and multimedia use. A complete packagelist can be seen here. The technical specifications are the same as sidux-2007-04.5 X-mas special "Ερως" and can be viewed in the release note. Localisations for Iceweasel, Icedove and KDE are already included for -da, -de, -engb, -es, -fr, -hr, -ja, -nl, -pl, -ptbr, -ro and -ru. The sidux DVD is not available as download but only at the sidux Webshop. With purchasing the DVD you support sidux. Sun, 30 Dec 2007 09:15:39 +0000 http://www.silvergeeks.com/Article384.html sidux-manual turned 1 year today. 1 year ago a decision was made to send the the sidux manual 'live' and even though sidux did not have an ISO. It went 'live' in 2 languages English and German (moto did 85% of the translation to -de) 1 year later sidux-manual is in 12 languages, and currently 2 other languages are in translation mode - Greek and Chinese Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:47:13 +0000 http://www.silvergeeks.com/Article376.html A lot has changed since sidux 2007-04 "Ερως" got released, most importantly additional hardware support for concurrent graphics-, DVB-, ALSA- and wireless LAN devices, which suggests to fresh up "Ερως", while continuing the development for sidux 2008-01 "Νυξ". Consequently we are now proud to announce the immediate availability of the sidux 2007-04.5 "Ερως" christmas special for amd64 and i686 systems, shipping in roughly ≈445 MB KDE lite flavours and a combined i386+amd64 release with ≈1430 MB KDE for kde-full. 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. The ISO is completely based on Debian sid, enriched and stabilized with sidux' own packages and scripts. Wed, 26 Dec 2007 03:39:21 +0000 http://www.silvergeeks.com/Article373.html The Japanese -ja version of the the sidux Operating System manual with muchan as translator and maintainer hits the sidux site. Whats more, he did it on his own, and started in November just 5 weeks ago. The sidux Operating System manual first went live on 28th Dec 2006, so its fitting that muchan representing the Japanese language is the 12th language to be added to mark of the sidux-manuals first aniversary and means that since sidux opened it doors a new language has been added every month! If printed the sidux OS manual would run to 230+ pages per translation, The sidux Operating System Manual in Japanese is here muchan, take a bow, you did it so fast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and you did it while taking an active part in all other facets of sidux through #IRC,sidux forums and wiki and other backend testing to ensure the best possble outcome for everyone, Just sensational! On behalf of the sidux Team Trevor Walkley bluewater Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:05:11 +0000