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Siduction è una rolling release basata su Debian sid. Nello specifico, ciò significa che il rilascio di una nuova versione non richiede la reinstallazione del sistema per ottenere i pacchetti aggiornati. Gli aggiornamenti vengono invece regolarmente incorporati nel sistema tramite aggiornamenti software. Siduction è una distribuzione comunitaria. Ciò significa che vive della collaborazione e dell'impegno di tutti che cordialmente sono invitati a partecipare!

Tipo Sistema Operativo
Linux

Infrastructural changes

Since recent events forced us to switch over to new servers, we are still in the process of setting all this up. We have two new servers in the process of setup. The build server is sponsored by IP Projects, the web server is paid for by us. Our biggest problem with the situation was having two servers ready, but our domain being beyond our control at this point.

Since we probably will not gain control over those domains (siduction de, org, eu) before mid-September, we had to acquire a new domain for the timespan from when the old web server is turned off until we get control over our regular domains. So starting from June 16 the new web server will serve its content under the temporary URL https://siduction.site. The old URL https://siduction.org might work for some time but will eventually be shut down, the point in time for that being outside our control. So, we recommend switching to the new one starting June 16 on. You may visit the new URL already and tell us how you like our new landing page and forum, but be aware that the content is not up-to-date at this point and that we are still adjusting small things here and there. Right now, the donation page is still missing as well as the one for our mirrors.

We hope there will be no interruption of service for the forum other than maybe an hour of downtime. We cannot guarantee that for the siduction mirrors, as we will inform them of the change as soon as it happens, but it could take a day or two for some of them to make the change. But that mirror downtime will not hurt your installs, you can dist-upgrade as you are used to, and you will catch up as soon as the mirrors are on the new URL. Thank you for your understanding!

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Release Notes for siduction 2021.2.0

Release Notes for siduction 2021.2.0

The siduction team is very proud that for our 10th birthday (yes, we started out in July 2011) we can present to you siduction 2021.2.0. This one is dubbed »Farewell« in remembrance of our friend Axel, who passed away way to early. So no, farewell does not mean we are going anywhere. The highlight of this release is the resuscitated siduction manual, that goes back to the days of sidux, which some of you will remember as a former incarnation of siduction. We will go on a little history tour on that further down. But first things first: User/Password for the live session is siducer/live.

What’s new this time around?

The flavours we offer for siduction 2021.2 are KDE Plasma 5.20.5, LXQt 0.16.0-1, Cinnamon 4.8.6.2, Xfce 4.16, Lxde 11, and the images Xorg and noX, where Xorg comes with Fluxbox and noX has no X at all. GNOME and MATE did again not make it due to a lack of a maintainer within siduction. They might be back at some point or not. Of course, they are still installable from the repository.

As you can tell, due to the freeze in regard to desktops not much has changed since our last release. The released images are a snapshot of Debian unstable, that also goes by the name of Sid, from 2021-07-28. They are enhanced with some useful packages and scripts, an installer based on Calamares and a custom patched version of the Linux kernel 5.13.6, while systemd is at 247.3-6.

Plasma at the helm

Plasma is still our main offering, and it has made remarkable progress over the past year. We have it staffed with the latest additions that will hit with Plasma 5.21 in a couple of weeks, like the new system monitor that will be the successor to ksysguard and the Conference Companion Kongress. Also, years in the making, finally there is kio-fuse.

The latter allows you to mount remote directories into the root hierarchy of your local file system, thereby exposing KDE’s access capabilities like SSH, SAMBA/Windows, FTP, TAR/GZip/BZip2, WebDav and others to POSIX-compliant applications such as Firefox, OpenOffice, GNOME apps, shell utilities and more. Quite the handy tool.

As a special birthday treat, we have a 2nd image with Plasma on offer, that is based on the builds by Norbert Preining, featuring the latest and greatest Plasma 5.22.4. Norbert is the gentleman who also, together with the team of Debian-KDE-QT made sure that the soon-to-be released Debian 11 »Bullseye« will ship with Plasma 5.20, so you know you can trust their packages.

This image uses  Intels iNet Wireless Daemon (iwd) for Wi-Fi and ships doas as a substitute for sudo with a much smaller footprint and a human-readable config file that can be as small as just one line. You will find a description on how to set up iwd for Wi-Fi further down. To get started with doas, you can take a look at this blog post, which gets you started. For a more thorough introduction, you may want to look at this article. There you also find a workaround for the missing bash-completion for Debian, which was the only pain point with doas.

siduction Manual

We are immensely proud that for our birthday we can offer an up-to-date version of the siduction manual. It took countless hours to get it into shape and into a current state. While with this release the manual is in German only, we strive to finish the English version for our next release. Our Non-German spoken users can for now use the services of a translator like deepl, which does an impressive job with technical translations.

A bit of nostalgia

Want to go on a nostalgic trip? Does someone remember sidux? That’s where the then so called bluewater-manual started in 2006. Back then we started by taking topics from the sidux-faq and reorganizing them into a manual. Then Trevor Walkley, an Australian gentleman, who went by the nickname of bluewater to match his fondness for sailing, took the rudder and turned the manual into a great knowledge base and led a translation team that translated large parts into something like a dozen languages.

The manual had one problem, and that was that it was built from static HTML pages. If there was no need to ever change anything, that would have been fine, but that is not the case. In 2013, there was an attempt to fix this by hamatoma, but that did not pan out the way it was planned. In 2020 Axel Konrad (akli) contacted us and declared, he wanted to fix the manual. And he did.

In an enormous effort, he brought the entire sidu-manual up to date. As if that was not enough, he transferred it to Markdown (md), so it is easy to maintain and can be served as HTML or converted to PDF, depending on the need at hand. The software to do that kind of magic is Pandoc. Meanwhile, we did a lot of proofreading with the output he produced, and yesterday we were done with the German part, just in time for the release.

If anyone is able and willing to go over any of the outdated English manual pages, we would be truly grateful. We have a how-to-get-started for you and a link to the EN pages. Then we also need people for proofreading the translations once they are done. If you would like to help us get the EN manual fixed, please contact us on IRC on oftc (irc.oftc.net #siduction or #siduction-de) or in the forum board for the manual.

iNet Wireless Daemon

The Xorg and noX flavors and the 2nd Plasma image are preconfigured to use a new tool to connect your wireless devices. Intels iNet wireless daemon (iwd) sends WPA-Supplicant into well-earned retirement. Ten times smaller and a lot faster, iwd will be the successor. If you like, you can use iwd in the other flavours too, either on its own or within Network-Manager. Further information can be found in the Arch Linux wiki. If further tests go as expected, we plan to ship iwd with other flavours as well

If you want to use wpa_supplicant instead of iwd follow the steps below:

First stop and mask iwd.service, stop NetworkManager.service, rename /etc/NetworkManger/conf.d/nm.conf, unmask and start wpa_supplicant.service, start NetworkManager.service again:

sudo systemctl stop iwd.service
sudo systemctl mask iwd.service
sudo systemctl stop NetworkManager.service
sudo mv /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/nm.conf /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/nm.conf~
sudo systemctl unmask wpa_supplicant.service
sudo systemctl enable --now wpa_supplicant.service
sudo systemctl start NetworkManager.service

Now you should be able to connect your wireless device with wpa_supplicant.

Installing iwd

If you like, you can use iwd in the other flavours too, either on its own or within Network-Manager. To easily set iwd up, use these steps:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install iwd
sudo systemctl stop wpa_supplicant.service
sudo systemctl mask wpa_supplicant.service
sudo systemctl stop NetworkManager.service
sudo touch /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/nm.conf
sudo echo -e '[device]\nwifi.backend=iwd' > /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/nm.conf
sudo touch /etc/iwd/main.conf
sudo echo -e '[General]\nEnableNetworkConfiguration=true\n\n[Network]\nNameResolvingService=systemd' > /etc/iwd/main.conf
sudo systemctl enable --now iwd.service
sudo systemctl start NetworkManager.service

Now you should be able to start an interactive shell by running iwctl from a terminal. Entering ‘help’ in the shell gives you all the options to list, scan and connect to your device or simply use nmtui or nmcli on the command line or the graphical-interface of Network-Manager.

Official Releases and Test Builds

Besides our official releases on our website, every so often we offer builds to keep the demand for fresh software for new installations covered. These images on testbuilds are unofficial and will continue to be tested only by booting and installing them, but that’s the extent of testing for that platform. So far, there was no trouble with that scheme. You will still be able to find fresh releases of GNOME and MATE along with the others there about once per month.

Non-free and Contrib

The following non-free and contrib packages are installed by default:

Non-Free

amd64-microcode – Processor microcode firmware for AMD CPUs
firmware-amd-graphics – Binary firmware for AMD/ATI graphics chips
firmware-atheros – Binary firmware for Atheros wireless cards
firmware-bnx2 – Binary firmware for Broadcom NetXtremeII
firmware-bnx2x – Binary firmware for Broadcom NetXtreme II 10Gb
firmware-brcm80211 – Binary firmware for Broadcom 802.11 wireless card
firmware-crystalhd – Crystal HD Video Decoder (firmware)
firmware-intelwimax – Binary firmware for Intel WiMAX Connection
firmware-iwlwifi – Binary firmware for Intel Wireless cards
firmware-libertas – Binary firmware for Marvell Libertas 8xxx wireless car
firmware-linux-nonfree – Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kernel
firmware-misc-nonfree – Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kernel
firmware-myricom – Binary firmware for Myri-10G Ethernet adapters
firmware-netxen – Binary firmware for QLogic Intelligent Ethernet (3000)
firmware-qlogic – Binary firmware for QLogic HBAs
firmware-realtek – Binary firmware for Realtek wired/wifi/BT adapters
firmware-ti-connectivity – Binary firmware for TI Connectivity wireless network
firmware-zd1211 – binary firmware for the zd1211rw wireless driver
intel-microcode – Processor microcode firmware for Intel CPUs

Contrib:

b43-fwcutter – utility for extracting Broadcom 43xx firmware
firmware-b43-installer – firmware installer for the b43 driver
firmware-b43legacy-installer – firmware installer for the b43legacy driver
iucode-tool – Intel processor microcode
Return to non-free

Right now, the installer does not offer an opt-out for packages that do not comply with DFSG, the Debian Free Software Guidelines. That means that non-free packages like unfree firmware will be installed by default on the system. The command vrms will list these packages for you. You can remove not wanted packages manually or remove them all by issuing apt purge $(vrms -s) before or after installation. Else, our script remove-nonfree can do that for you.

Installation hints and known issues

* If you want to reuse your existing home (or any other data) partition, it would be wise to do so after installation and not in the Calamares Installer.
* Encryption setups like LUKS and others are not yet supported by the Installer Framework, you should prepare your partition setup beforehand and might better use the cli-installer in a terminal.
* With some Intel GPUs on some devices, you might encounter a frozen system on Live shortly after boot. To fix this, you need to set the kernel parameter intel_iommu=igfx_off before booting again.

Credits for siduction 2021.2.0
Core Team

Torsten Wohlfarth (towo)
Hendrik Lehmbruch (hendrikL)
Ferdinand Thommes (devil)
Vinzenz Vietzke (vinzv)

Alf Gaida (agaida) (eaten by cats)
Axel Beu (ab) 2021†

Code, ideas and support:

Axel Konrad (akli)
der_bud
Markus Meyer (coruja)
Stefan Tell (cryptosteve]

Original bluewater manual maintainers and translators:

Trevor Walkley (bluewater)
• Jose Tadeu Barros (ceti)
• Alpha Mohamed Diakite (alphad)
• Stefan R. Eissens (eislon)
• Roland Engert (RoEn)
• Alessio Giustini (alessiog75)
• Markus Huber (hubi)
• Luis_P
• Janusz Martyniak (wiarus_old)
• Philippe Masson (LjanA)
• Mutsumu Nomura (muchan)
• Rasmus Güllich Pørksen (ragupo)
• Dawid Staropietka (DaVidoSS)
• Bruno Torremans (btorrem)
• Robert Ulatowski (quidam77)
• Dorin Vatavu (dorin)
• Bram Verdoodt (Bram0s)
• Petr Vorel (pumrel)
• zenren

Thank you all!

We want to thank all testers and all the people giving us support over the years. This is also your achievement. We also want to thank Debian, as we are standing on the shoulders of giants.
And now enjoy!

On behalf of the siduction team:

Ferdinand Thommes

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Release Notes for siduction 2021.3.0 »Wintersky«

Just before the holidays, we present you siduction 2021.3.0. This edition is called “Wintersky”. User and password for the live session are siducer/live.

With that out of the way, we need to inform you of some changes. Those who have read our call for collaboration in the forum know that we lack the time to adequately maintain siduction in its current incarnation. Therefore, we have decided to stop publishing some desktop variants for the official release for the time being. We will stop shipping Cinnamon and LXDE in addition to MATE, which was already missing in the last release, and concentrate on KDE Plasma, LXQt, Xfce, Xorg and noX.

Official Releases and Test-Builds

We will continue to provide images for all desktop environments, including the officially discontinued desktops, on the test builds server every 4 – 6 weeks, if they can be created without extra work. The images on test builds are unofficial and will continue to be tested only by booting and installing them. If users from the community can be found who want to maintain one of the desktops, it can be promoted back to the officially supported desktops. Of course, all discontinued desktops are still installable through packages via the repositories.

What’s new this time around?

The flavours and versions we offer for siduction 2021.3.0 are KDE Plasma 5.23.4, LXQt 0.16, Xfce 4.16, and the Xorg and noX images, where Xorg comes with the window manager Fluxbox, while noX does without X altogether. The released images of siduction 2021.3.0 are a snapshot of Debian Unstable, also codenamed Sid, from Dec. 23, 2021, enriched with some useful packages and scripts, a Calamares-based installer and a customized version of the Linux kernel 5.15.11, while systemd is at 249.7-1.

iNet Wireless Daemon

The iNet Wireless Daemon (iwd), which we already shipped with siduction 2021.1.0 for the flavors Xorg and noX, is now also responsible for WiFi on Plasma, LXQt and Xfce. iwd is lightweight and establishes connections to WiFi faster than was possible with wpa_supplicant. iwd works stand alone or together with NetworkManager, systemd-networkd and Connman. Our implementation works with NetworkManager, you can just configure it the same way you are used to. If you prefer to have wpa_supplicant back, you can follow the steps below:

First, iwd.service is stopped and masked, then NetworkManager.service is stopped, /etc/NetworkManger/conf.d/nm.conf is renamed, wpa_supplicant.service is unmasked and started, and finally NetworkManager.service is started again:

  • sudo systemctl stop iwd.service
  • sudo systemctl mask iwd.service
  • sudo systemctl stop NetworkManager.service
  • sudo mv /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/nm.conf /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/nm.conf~
  • sudo systemctl unmask wpa_supplicant.service
  • sudo systemctl start NetworkManager.service

Now you should be able to reconnect your wireless device via wpa_supplicant. Two things iwd can’t do yet are connections via WPA/WPA2 Enterprise and handle hidden networks correctly.

doas as alternative for sudo

We have also shipped doas pre-installed before. We do not replace sudo, but offer doas as a lightweight alternative. Both can be installed and configured at the same time and be alernatingly used. So far, there is no bash_completion for doas, so we created and included one ourselves. Thus, doas is available as a full-fledged replacement for sudo for desktop use.

Make doas ready for use

doas is shipped without a configuration file in Debian. Therefore, it is necessary to create one first and to equip it with the basic rights:

  • nano /etc/doas.conf

and add the line:

  • permit keepenv :[user]

where [user] is replaced with the corresponding user without the brackets. The whole thing works also without password, then the line looks like this:

  • permit keepenv nopass :[user]

If sudo is already configured and thus a group named sudo exists, the line is also sufficient:

  • permit :sudo

On multi-user systems, members of the wheel group are authorized with the permit :wheel line. For more options, see the man page. Additional information is provided in a blog entry and a detailed article.

Other than that …

New in sid and thus in siduction is PipeWire as a replacement for PulseAudio and Jack. In the future, it will also take care of the video section. We have also replaced ncdu with the much faster gdu and preinstalled CopyQ as a clipboard manager. We removed Digikam from the image because of its size of ~ 130 MByte.

Plans for Calamares

We are excited to see, that Calamares meanwhile masters the encryption of the installation. As a small Christmas present, during the installation we show a small slideshow with some of our wallpapers from the last 10 years. For the near future, we have more plans with Calamares. We want to release an image where the desktop environment as well as single packages can be selected for it in the installer.

Non-free and Contrib:

The following non-free and contrib packages are installed by default:

Nonfree:

amd64-microcode – Processor microcode firmware for AMD CPUs
firmware-amd-graphics – Binary firmware for AMD/ATI graphics chips
firmware-atheros – Binary firmware for Atheros wireless cards
firmware-bnx2 – Binary firmware for Broadcom NetXtremeII
firmware-bnx2x – Binary firmware for Broadcom NetXtreme II 10Gb
firmware-brcm80211 – Binary firmware for Broadcom 802.11 wireless card
firmware-crystalhd – Crystal HD Video Decoder (firmware)
firmware-intelwimax – Binary firmware for Intel WiMAX Connection
firmware-iwlwifi – Binary firmware for Intel Wireless cards
firmware-libertas – Binary firmware for Marvell Libertas 8xxx wireless car
firmware-linux-nonfree – Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kernel
firmware-misc-nonfree – Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kernel
firmware-myricom – Binary firmware for Myri-10G Ethernet adapters
firmware-netxen – Binary firmware for QLogic Intelligent Ethernet (3000)
firmware-qlogic – Binary firmware for QLogic HBAs
firmware-realtek – Binary firmware for Realtek wired/wifi/BT adapters
firmware-ti-connectivity – Binary firmware for TI Connectivity wireless network
firmware-zd1211 – binary firmware for the zd1211rw wireless driver
intel-microcode – Processor microcode firmware for Intel CPUs

Contrib:

b43-fwcutter – utility for extracting Broadcom 43xx firmware
firmware-b43-installer – firmware installer for the b43 driver
firmware-b43legacy-installer – firmware installer for the b43legacy driver
iucode-tool – Intel processor microcode

Remove Non-Free:

Currently, the installer does not offer the possibility to deselect packages that do not comply with the DFSG, the Debian Free Software Guidelines. This means that packages such as non-free firmware are installed on the system by default. The vrms command will list these packages for you. You can remove unwanted packages manually or all together by typing apt purge $(vrms -s) before or after installation. Otherwise, our remove-nonfree script can do this for you.

Installation notes and known issues

  • If you want to reuse an existing home partition (or another data partition), you should add it after the installation and not in the Calamares installer.
  • With some Intel graphics processors on some devices, the system may freeze shortly after booting into Live. To fix this, you must set the kernel parameter intel_iommu=igfx_off before booting again.

Credits for siduction 2021.3.0

Core Team:

Torsten Wohlfarth (towo)
Hendrik Lehmbruch (hendrikL)
Ferdinand Thommes (devil)
Vinzenz Vietzke (vinzv)

Code, ideas and support:

Alf Gaida (agaida) (eaten by the cat)
Axel Beu (ab) 2021†

Axel Konrad (akli)
der_bud
Markus Meyer (coruja)
Stefan Tell (cryptosteve]

Many thanks to all involved!

This is also thanks to you. We would also like to thank Debian, as we stand on the shoulders of giants.
And now have fun!

On behalf of the siduction team:

Ferdinand Thommes

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Release Notes für siduction 2021.3.0 »Wintersky«

Kurz vor den Feiertagen präsentieren wir euch siduction 2021.3.0. Diese Ausgabe trägt den Namen »Wintersky«. User und Passwort für die Live-Session lauten siducer/live.

Nachdem wir das aus dem Weg haben, müssen wir euch über einige Änderungen informieren. Wer unseren Ruf nach Mitarbeit im Forum gelesen hat, weiß, dass es uns an Zeit fehlt, siduction in der derzeitigen Ausprägung adäquat zu pflegen. Deshalb haben wir uns entschieden, für das offizielle Release einige Desktop-Varianten vorerst nicht mehr zu veröffentlichen. Wir stellen ab sofort zusätzlich zum schon beim letzten Release fehlenden MATE die Auslieferung von Cinnamon und LXDE ein und konzentrieren uns auf die Varianten KDE Plasma, LXQt, Xfce, Xorg und noX.

Wir werden Images für die offiziell eingestellten Desktops weiterhin alle 4 – 6 Wochen auf dem Testbuild-Server zur Verfügung stellen, sofern sie sich ohne Mehrarbeit erstellen lassen. Wenn sich User aus der Community finden, die einen der Desktops betreuen möchten, kann dieser auch wieder zu den offiziell unterstützten Desktops aufsteigen. Natürlich sind alle eingestellten Desktops als Pakete auch weiterhin über die Repositories installierbar.

Was ist dieses Mal neu?

Die Flavours, die wir für siduction 2021.3.0 anbieten sind KDE Plasma 5.23.4, LXQt 0.16, Xfce 4.16 sowie die Abbilder Xorg und noX, wobei Xorg mit dem Window-Manager Fluxbox startet, während noX ganz ohne X auskommt. Die veröffentlichten Images von siduction 2021.3.0 sind ein Schnappschuss von Debian Unstable, das auch den Codenamen Sid trägt, vom 23.12.2021. Sie sind mit einigen nützlichen Paketen und Skripten, einem auf Calamares basierenden Installer und einer angepassten Version des Linux-Kernels 5.15.11 angereichert, während systemd bei 249.7-1 steht.

iNet Wireless Daemon

Der iNet Wireless Daemon (iwd), den wir bereits mit siduction 2021.1.0 für die Flavours Xorg und noX ausgeliefert hatten, ist nun auch bei Plasma, LXQt und Xfce für das WLAN zuständig. iwd ist leichtgewichtig und stellt Verbindungen zum WLAN schneller her als dies mit wpa_supplicant möglich war. iwd funktioniert alleine oder zusammen mit NetworkManager, systemd-networkd und Connman. Unsere Implementation läuft mit NetworkManager, ihr könnt euer WLAN wie gewohnt konfigurieren. Wer lieber den wpa_supplicant zurück haben möchte, kann den folgenden Schritten folgen:

Zuerst wird iwd.service gestoppt und maskiert, dann NetworkManager.service gestoppt, /etc/NetworkManger/conf.d/nm.conf umbenannt, wpa_supplicant.service unmaskiert und gestartet, und schließlich NetworkManager.service wieder gestartet:

sudo systemctl stop iwd.service
sudo systemctl mask iwd.service
sudo systemctl stop NetworkManager.service
sudo mv /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/nm.conf /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/nm.conf~
sudo systemctl unmask wpa_supplicant.service
sudo systemctl start NetworkManager.service


Jetzt solltest du in der Lage sein, dein drahtloses Gerät wieder per wpa_supplicant zu verbinden. Zwei Dinge, die iwd noch nicht kann, sind die Verbindung per WPA/WPA2 Enterprise und der korrekte Umgang mit versteckten Netzwerken.

doas als Alternative zu sudo

Auch doas haben wir bereits vorinstalliert ausgeliefert. Wir ersetzen sudo nicht, sondern bieten doas als leichtgewichtige Alternative an. Beide können gleichzeitig installiert und konfiguriert sein und alternierend benutzt werden. Bisher gibt es keine offizielle bash_completion für doas, deshalb haben wir selbst eine erstellt und eingefügt. Somit steht doas als vollwertiger Ersatz für sudo für den Desktop-Einsatz bereit.

doas einsatzbereit machen

doas wird bei Debian ohne Konfigurationsdatei ausgeliefert. Deshalb gilt es zunächst, eine solche zu erstellen und mit den grundlegenden Rechten auszustatten:

nano /etc/doas.conf

dort die Zeile einfügen:
permit keepenv :[user]
wobei [user] mit dem entsprechenden User ohne die Klammern ersetzt wird. Das Ganze geht auch ohne Passwort, dann sieht die Zeile so aus:

permit keepenv nopass :[user]
Falls sudo bereits konfiguriert ist und somit eine Gruppe namens sudo existiert, reicht auch die Zeile:

permit :sudo

Auf Mehrbenutzersystemen werden Mitglieder der Gruppe wheel mit der Zeile permit :wheel autorisiert. Weitere Optionen sind der Manpage zu entnehmen. Zusätzliche Informationen liefern ein Blogeintrag und ein ausführlicher Artikel.

Sonst noch…

Neu in sid und somit in siduction ist PipeWire als Ersatz für PulseAudio und Jack. In Zukunft wird es auch den Bereich Video übernehmen. Es funktioniert ohne euer Zutun. Wir haben zudem ncdu mit dem viel schnelleren gdu ersetzt und CopyQ als Clipboard-Manager vorinstalliert. Digikam haben wir wegen seiner Größe von ~ 130 MByte aus dem Image entfernt.

Pläne für Calamares

Wir freuen uns, dass Calamares mittlerweile die Verschlüsselung der Installation beherrscht. Als kleines Weihnachtsgeschenk zeigen wir während der Installation eine kleine Diashow mit einigen unserer Wallpaper aus den letzten 10 Jahren. Für die nähere Zukunft haben wir mit Calamares aber noch mehr vor. Wir planen, ein Image zu veröffentlichen, wo im Installer sowohl die Desktop-Umgebung als auch einzelne Pakete dafür ausgewählt werden können. Vielleicht beim nächsten Release…

Non-Free und Contrib:

Die folgenden non-free und contrib Pakete werden standardmäßig installiert:

Nonfree:

amd64-microcode – Processor microcode firmware for AMD CPUs
firmware-amd-graphics – Binary firmware for AMD/ATI graphics chips
firmware-atheros – Binary firmware for Atheros wireless cards
firmware-bnx2 – Binary firmware for Broadcom NetXtremeII
firmware-bnx2x – Binary firmware for Broadcom NetXtreme II 10Gb
firmware-brcm80211 – Binary firmware for Broadcom 802.11 wireless card
firmware-crystalhd – Crystal HD Video Decoder (firmware)
firmware-intelwimax – Binary firmware for Intel WiMAX Connection
firmware-iwlwifi – Binary firmware for Intel Wireless cards
firmware-libertas – Binary firmware for Marvell Libertas 8xxx wireless car
firmware-linux-nonfree – Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kernel
firmware-misc-nonfree – Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kernel
firmware-myricom – Binary firmware for Myri-10G Ethernet adapters
firmware-netxen – Binary firmware for QLogic Intelligent Ethernet (3000)
firmware-qlogic – Binary firmware for QLogic HBAs
firmware-realtek – Binary firmware for Realtek wired/wifi/BT adapters
firmware-ti-connectivity – Binary firmware for TI Connectivity wireless network
firmware-zd1211 – binary firmware for the zd1211rw wireless driver
intel-microcode – Processor microcode firmware for Intel CPUs

Contrib

b43-fwcutter – utility for extracting Broadcom 43xx firmware
firmware-b43-installer – firmware installer for the b43 driver
firmware-b43legacy-installer – firmware installer for the b43legacy driver
iucode-tool – Intel processor microcode

Non-Free Inhalte entfernen

Momentan bietet der Installer keine Möglichkeit, Pakete abzuwählen, die nicht mit den DFSG, den Debian-Richtlinien für Freie Software, übereinstimmen. Das bedeutet, dass Pakete wie etwa unfreie Firmware standardmäßig auf dem System installiert werden. Der Befehl vrms wird diese Pakete für dich auflisten. Du kannst nicht erwünschte Pakete manuell deinstallieren oder sie alle entfernen, indem du vor oder nach der Installation apt purge $(vrms -s) eingibst. Andernfalls kann unser Skript remove-nonfree dies für dich tun.

Installationshinweise und bekannte Probleme

  • Wenn du eine bestehende Home-Partition (oder eine andere Datenpartition) wiederverwenden möchtest, solltest du dies nach der Installation und nicht im Calamares-Installer tun.
  • Bei einigen Intel-Grafikprozessoren auf einigen Geräten kann es vorkommen, dass das System kurz nach dem Booten in Live eingefroren ist. Um dies zu beheben, musst du den Kernel-Parameter intel_iommu=igfx_off setzen, bevor du erneut bootest.


Credits für siduction 2021.3.0

Core Team

Torsten Wohlfarth (towo)
Hendrik Lehmbruch (hendrikL)
Ferdinand Thommes (devil)
Vinzenz Vietzke (vinzv)

Alf Gaida (agaida) (von der Katze gefressen)
Axel Beu (ab) 2021†

Code, Ideen und Unterstützung:
Axel Konrad (akli)
der_bud
Markus Meyer (coruja)
Stefan Tell (cryptosteve]

Vielen Dank an alle Beteiligten!
Wir möchten uns bei allen Testern und all den Menschen bedanken, die uns über die Jahre hinweg unterstützt haben. Dies ist auch dein Verdienst. Wir möchten zudem Debian danken, da wir auf den Schultern von Giganten stehen.
Und nun viel Spaß!

Im Namen des siduction-Teams:

Ferdinand Thommes

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Update for our Build Server

We are pleased to announce that our sponsored build server is receiving a hardware update. Currently, the server meets the following performance specifications:

Intel Core i7-3930
64 GB DDR3 1333
4x 2 TB
Adaptec 6405E

The updated hardware :

AMD Ryzen 5700G
64 GB DDR4
4x 2 TB
Adaptec 6405E

The CPU’s benchmark scores on CPU Benchmark thus increase from the previous 8,248 to 24,557 points and provide a significant performance boost.

The replacement of the motherboard will be done next Monday. The website and forum are running on a separate server, so will not have any downtime.

We would like to thank our sponsor IP-Projects, who kindly provides the build server free of charge. If you need web hosting or a server, feel free to check out the offers at https://www.ip-projects.de. We have found IP-Projects to be absolutely reliable and dedicated so far.

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Release Notes for siduction 2022.1 »Masters of War«

During holiday season we present to you our new release siduction 2022.1. This edition for obvious reasons has been given the code name »Masters of War«. This goes back to a Bob Dylan song of the same name from 1962. Users that have been with us for a while will remember that we used to use rock songs as code names for our releases. Well, today we are returning to that tradition. The wallpaper of this release combines the artwork for Debian GNU/Linux 12 »Bookworm« with this Bob Dylan song, that is as fresh today as it was in 1962.

The User and password for the live session are siducer/live.

Desktop environments

With that out of the way, let’s cut to the chase. »Masters of War« has quite a few new features to offer that we hope you will find exiting enough to try out. But before that, let’s get to the basics first. »Masters of War« uses Linux 6.1 as kernel and offers images with KDE Plasma as our main offering, along with LXQt, Xfce, Xorg and noX. We will continue to offer unofficial builds for GNOME, Cinnamon and MATE on testbuilds.siduction.org.

KDE Plasma is included in version 5.26.4, accompanied by KDE Frameworks 5.101 and KDE Gear 22.12. Xfce 4.18 was released about two weeks ago, and we are happy to be able to include it in our release. LXQt stands at v1.2.0.

Why we don’t ship as many desktops as we did

Should you wonder why we don’t ship, GNOME, Cinnamon, or MATE anymore, the reason is simple: We don’t have the time nor the respective intimate knowledge to keep those desktop environments in the shape they deserve to be released to you. If you think, siduction should again ship one of those desktops, and you have the resources to help us do that, we are more than happy to support you in any way possible. Please help us to secure the future of siduction by stepping up and helping us out in different capacities.

Generally speaking, siduction is what you make of it, as it is a community effort. And with our small team most of the time we’re in the situation that we would like to offer more to our users. No matter if you have ideas, clever solutions to scratch a personal itch or beautiful artwork gathering dust on your hard drive – this is your chance to join us and contribute!

Getting started couldn’t be easier:

  • Just dump anything right from the top of your head into the Ideas & Improvements section.
  • Show off what you painted or tinkered together to make your system look more individual at Art & Design.
  • Get picky with errors and typos at our manual.
  • If you fancy working with project management, open issues or even pull requests on GitHub.

If you are unsure where to put something or if you would like to chat with other users, joining IRC or the attached Matrix rooms is always an easy way to go. Just stick around, we’re nice!

What’s new this time around?

chroot-helper

We have quite a few shiny new things for you to play with this time around if you are so inclined. A new and quite helpful tool can be found on the live image. It waits behind the new icon labeled siduction chroot helper. If we ask ourselves if we know the commands to start a chroot off the top of our head, most of us will have to answer with »no«. So, next time you need to fix your system because you lost your password or a malformed entry in /etc/fstab makes systemd cringe and refuse to boot, you start the live image and hit that icon. You are prompted to select the partition and after a safety warning are taken to your install as root, where you can start to undo any issues.

Nala

Nala as a new frontend for Debian’s package manager frontend apt. It works as a drop-in replacement, meaning that you can use the commands you are used to from apt also with nala. Apt gets the job done, but it is neither fast nor is it very user-friendly, when it comes to how it outputs its information.

Nala in comparison seems like apt on steroids. It is faster by using parallel downloads, has better output, that is presented in a user-friendly way. It also has a history function that was borrowed from Fedoras package manager frontend dnf. You can try out nala right now and if you don’t like it, return to apt any time. You can also use both, alternating between them. Some good reading about nala can be found on the website Linuxiac. Our manual also offers a section on nala here.

‘nala update’
‘nala upgrade’
‘nala upgrade’ equals ‘apt dist-upgrade’
previous arrow
next arrow
 

Snapper

Snapshots of your running system, that you can roll back to, have been a thing in distributions like openSUSE with btrfs or the BSDs with zfs for many years. If you are using ext4 and making use of Timeshift, you get a similar result, but are limited on the options.

That is why we integrated snapper to handle snapshots if you install siduction on btrfs. We have written a very detailed manual page for this here. Basically, as default the system takes a snapshot before and after every action you take with apt (or nala), that you can roll back to through a GRUB module, if needed. You can also take snapshots at boot or manually. Besides that, you can also roll back single packages. There is a ton of options, as you can see when you read our manual section on it. A hands-on quick start can be seen over at SpiralLinux, as they use the same mechanism.

‘snapper list’ shows all snapshots
In GRUB you choose the snapshot you want to roll back to
previous arrow
next arrow
 

Non-free and Contrib:

The following non-free and contrib packages are installed by default:

Nonfree:

amd64-microcode – Processor microcode firmware for AMD CPUs
firmware-amd-graphics – Binary firmware for AMD/ATI graphics chips
firmware-atheros – Binary firmware for Atheros wireless cards
firmware-bnx2 – Binary firmware for Broadcom NetXtremeII
firmware-bnx2x – Binary firmware for Broadcom NetXtreme II 10Gb
firmware-brcm80211 – Binary firmware for Broadcom 802.11 wireless card
firmware-crystalhd – Crystal HD Video Decoder (firmware)
firmware-intelwimax – Binary firmware for Intel WiMAX Connection
firmware-iwlwifi – Binary firmware for Intel Wireless cards
firmware-libertas – Binary firmware for Marvell Libertas 8xxx wireless car
firmware-linux-nonfree – Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kernel
firmware-misc-nonfree – Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kernel
firmware-myricom – Binary firmware for Myri-10G Ethernet adapters
firmware-netxen – Binary firmware for QLogic Intelligent Ethernet (3000)
firmware-qlogic – Binary firmware for QLogic HBAs
firmware-realtek – Binary firmware for Realtek wired/wifi/BT adapters
firmware-ti-connectivity – Binary firmware for TI Connectivity wireless network
firmware-zd1211 – binary firmware for the zd1211rw wireless driver
intel-microcode – Processor microcode firmware for Intel CPUs

Contrib:

b43-fwcutter – utility for extracting Broadcom 43xx firmware
firmware-b43-installer – firmware installer for the b43 driver
firmware-b43legacy-installer – firmware installer for the b43legacy driver
iucode-tool – Intel processor microcode

Remove Non-Free:

Currently, the installer does not offer the possibility to deselect packages that do not comply with the DFSG, the Debian Free Software Guidelines. This means that packages such as non-free firmware are installed on the system by default. The vrms command will list these packages for you. You can remove unwanted packages manually or all together by typing apt purge $(vrms -s) before or after installation. Otherwise, our remove-nonfree script can do this for you at a later time.

Installation notes and known issues

If you want to reuse an existing home partition (or another data partition), you should add it after the installation and not in the Calamares installer.

With some older Intel graphics processors on some devices, the system may freeze shortly after booting into Live. To fix this, you must set the kernel parameter intel_iommu=igfx_off before booting again.

Credits for siduction 2022.1

Core Team:

Torsten Wohlfarth (towo)
Hendrik Lehmbruch (hendrikL)
Ferdinand Thommes (devil)
Vinzenz Vietzke (vinzv)
Axel Konrad (akli)

Former contributors:

Alf Gaida (agaida) (eaten by the cat)
Axel Beu 2021†
Markus Meyer (coruja)

Code, ideas and support:

der_bud
se7en
davydych

Many thanks to all involved!

This is also thanks to you, our users. We would also like to thank Debian, as we stand on the shoulders of giants.
And now have fun!

On behalf of the siduction team:

Ferdinand Thommes

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Release Notes for siduction 2022.1.1 »Masters of War«

We are pleased to offer siduction 2022.1.1 as a bugfix release. It is based on an excerpt of Debian Sid from March 8, 2023. siduction 2022.1 had some problems with the newly introduced snapshot feature when using Btrfs as files ystem, which were difficult to solve, but are now fixed thanks to the tireless work of Axel Konrad (akli). In addition, siduction 2022.1.1 reflects the changed sources list due to Debian’s new policy on handling non-free firmware. Furthermore, besides many package updates, Linux 6.2.2 and KDE Plasma 5.27.2 are shipped.

The User and password for the live session are siducer/live.

Desktop environments

With that out of the way, let’s cut to the chase. »Masters of War« has quite a few new features to offer that we hope you will find exiting enough to try out. But before that, let’s get to the basics first. »Masters of War« uses Linux 6.2.2 as kernel and offers images with KDE Plasma as our main offering, along with LXQt, Xfce, Xorg and noX. We will continue to offer unofficial builds for GNOME, Cinnamon and MATE on testbuilds.siduction.org.

KDE Plasma is included in version 5.27.2, accompanied by KDE Frameworks 5.101 and KDE Gear 22.12. Xfce 4.18 was released about two weeks ago, and we are happy to be able to include it in our release. LXQt stands at v1.2.0.

Why we don’t ship as many desktops as we did

Should you wonder why we don’t ship, GNOME, Cinnamon, or MATE anymore, the reason is simple: We don’t have the time nor the respective intimate knowledge to keep those desktop environments in the shape they deserve to be released to you. If you think, siduction should again ship one of those desktops, and you have the resources to help us do that, we are more than happy to support you in any way possible. Please help us to secure the future of siduction by stepping up and helping us out in different capacities.

Generally speaking, siduction is what you make of it, as it is a community effort. And with our small team most of the time we’re in the situation that we would like to offer more to our users. No matter if you have ideas, clever solutions to scratch a personal itch or beautiful artwork gathering dust on your hard drive – this is your chance to join us and contribute!

Getting started couldn’t be easier:

  • Just dump anything right from the top of your head into the Ideas & Improvements section.
  • Show off what you painted or tinkered together to make your system look more individual at Art & Design.
  • Get picky with errors and typos at our manual.
  • If you fancy working with project management, open issues or even pull requests on GitHub.

If you are unsure where to put something or if you would like to chat with other users, joining IRC or the attached Matrix rooms is always an easy way to go. Just stick around, we’re nice!

What’s new this time around?

chroot-helper

We have quite a few shiny new things for you to play with this time around if you are so inclined. A new and quite helpful tool can be found on the live image. It waits behind the new icon labeled siduction chroot helper. If we ask ourselves if we know the commands to start a chroot off the top of our head, most of us will have to answer with »no«. So, next time you need to fix your system because you lost your password or a malformed entry in /etc/fstab makes systemd cringe and refuse to boot, you start the live image and hit that icon. You are prompted to select the partition and after a safety warning are taken to your install as root, where you can start to undo any issues.

Nala

Nala as a new frontend for Debian’s package manager frontend apt. It works as a drop-in replacement, meaning that you can use the commands you are used to from apt also with nala. Apt gets the job done, but it is neither fast nor is it very user-friendly, when it comes to how it outputs its information.

Nala in comparison seems like apt on steroids. It is faster by using parallel downloads, has better output, that is presented in a user-friendly way. It also has a history function that was borrowed from Fedoras package manager frontend dnf. You can try out nala right now and if you don’t like it, return to apt any time. You can also use both, alternating between them. Some good reading about nala can be found on the website Linuxiac. Our manual also offers a section on nala here.

‘nala update’
‘nala upgrade’
‘nala upgrade’ equals ‘apt dist-upgrade’
previous arrow
next arrow
 

Snapper

Snapshots of your running system, that you can roll back to, have been a thing in distributions like openSUSE with btrfs or the BSDs with zfs for many years. If you are using ext4 and making use of Timeshift, you get a similar result, but are limited on the options.

That is why we integrated snapper to handle snapshots if you install siduction on btrfs. We have written a very detailed manual page for this here. Basically, as default the system takes a snapshot before and after every action you take with apt (or nala), that you can roll back to through a GRUB module, if needed. You can also take snapshots at boot or manually. Besides that, you can also roll back single packages. There is a ton of options, as you can see when you read our manual section on it. A hands-on quick start can be seen over at SpiralLinux, as they use the same mechanism.

‘snapper list’ shows all snapshots
In GRUB you choose the snapshot you want to roll back to
previous arrow
next arrow
 

Non-free and Contrib:

The following non-free and contrib packages are installed by default:

Nonfree:

amd64-microcode – Processor microcode firmware for AMD CPUs
firmware-amd-graphics – Binary firmware for AMD/ATI graphics chips
firmware-atheros – Binary firmware for Atheros wireless cards
firmware-bnx2 – Binary firmware for Broadcom NetXtremeII
firmware-bnx2x – Binary firmware for Broadcom NetXtreme II 10Gb
firmware-brcm80211 – Binary firmware for Broadcom 802.11 wireless card
firmware-crystalhd – Crystal HD Video Decoder (firmware)
firmware-intelwimax – Binary firmware for Intel WiMAX Connection
firmware-iwlwifi – Binary firmware for Intel Wireless cards
firmware-libertas – Binary firmware for Marvell Libertas 8xxx wireless car
firmware-linux-nonfree – Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kernel
firmware-misc-nonfree – Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kernel
firmware-myricom – Binary firmware for Myri-10G Ethernet adapters
firmware-netxen – Binary firmware for QLogic Intelligent Ethernet (3000)
firmware-qlogic – Binary firmware for QLogic HBAs
firmware-realtek – Binary firmware for Realtek wired/wifi/BT adapters
firmware-ti-connectivity – Binary firmware for TI Connectivity wireless network
firmware-zd1211 – binary firmware for the zd1211rw wireless driver
intel-microcode – Processor microcode firmware for Intel CPUs

Contrib:

b43-fwcutter – utility for extracting Broadcom 43xx firmware
firmware-b43-installer – firmware installer for the b43 driver
firmware-b43legacy-installer – firmware installer for the b43legacy driver
iucode-tool – Intel processor microcode

Remove Non-Free:

Currently, the installer does not offer the possibility to deselect packages that do not comply with the DFSG, the Debian Free Software Guidelines. This means that packages such as non-free firmware are installed on the system by default. The vrms command will list these packages for you. You can remove unwanted packages manually or all together by typing apt purge $(vrms -s) before or after installation. Otherwise, our remove-nonfree script can do this for you at a later time.

Installation notes and known issues

If you want to reuse an existing home partition (or another data partition), you should add it after the installation and not in the Calamares installer.

With some older Intel graphics processors on some devices, the system may freeze shortly after booting into Live. To fix this, you must set the kernel parameter intel_iommu=igfx_off before booting again.

Credits for siduction 2022.1

Core Team:

Torsten Wohlfarth (towo)
Hendrik Lehmbruch (hendrikL)
Ferdinand Thommes (devil)
Vinzenz Vietzke (vinzv)
Axel Konrad (akli)

Former contributors:

Alf Gaida (agaida) (eaten by the cat)
Axel Beu 2021†
Markus Meyer (coruja)

Code, ideas and support:

der_bud
se7en
davydych

Many thanks to all involved!

This is also thanks to you, our users. We would also like to thank Debian, as we stand on the shoulders of giants.
And now have fun!

On behalf of the siduction team:

Ferdinand Thommes

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Release Notes for siduction 2022.1.2 »Masters of War«

We have published another bugfix release for siduction today. The images should already have arrived on most mirror servers. The point release fixes some small bugs that have been reported to us in the past few days.

For example, the choice of timezone was not honoured in KDE and Xfce. If a /home was included in the installer, the installation took a disproportionately long time. In addition, we had an error in the installer when siduction was to be installed parallel to an existing system. These errors are now fixed.

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Release Notes für siduction 2022.1.2 »Masters of War«

Wir haben heute für siduction ein weiteres Bugfix-Release veröffentlicht. Die Images sollten bereits auf den meisten Spiegelservern angekommen sein. Das Point-Release behebt einige kleine Fehler, die uns in den vergangenen Tagen gemeldet wurden.

So wurde bei KDE und Xfce die Wahl der Timezone nicht honoriert. Wenn im Installer ein /home eingebunden wurde, dauerte die Installation unverhältnismäßig lang. Zudem hatten wir einen Fehler im Installer, wenn siduction parallel zu einem vorhandenen System installiert werden sollte. Diese Fehler sind nun behoben.

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Release Notes 2023.1.0 “Standing on the Shoulders of Giants”

The siduction team is very proud to present an unscheduled release for a special occasion. Debian GNU/Linux, whose unstable branch some of us have been following for over 20 years, celebrates its 30. Birthday on 8/16/2023 and we think that is worthy of all honor.

Debian is the second oldest distribution after Slackware, and is solely supported by the people involved, without a company standing in the background or someone at the top deciding where things go. Debian is considered the “universal operating system” because of the many architectures supported to this day, and the stability of their releases is legendary.

Changing history

The story began on August 16, 1993, when Ian Murdock introduced his self-designed system “Debian Linux Release”. The Debian Manifesto followed that same year. The first stable version, 1.1, was released in 1996, then compiled by under 100 developers. The release was codenamed “Buzz”, a first reference to the characters from the movie franchise Toy Story, from which the codenames are still borrowed today.

So far, another 16 releases have been added, the current of which is codenamed “Bookworm” and was released on June 10, 2023. The motto is still: It will be released when it is ready.

In 1997 already about 400 developers agreed on the Debian social contract as an important document, which has been edited only twice since its existence and which states under clause 1: Debian will remain 100% free. At the same time, the “Debian Free Software Guidelines” (DFSG) were adopted as part of this contract.

Self-managed

Debian administers itself in the form of a do-ocracy. Today, the approximately 1,000 developers determine their tasks independently and responsibly. That this is not always easy among a thousand creative people should be clear to everyone. This is reminded, among other things, of upheavals such as the introduction of systemd, which brought Debian to its breaking point. The inclusion of non-free firmware on the distribution’s installation media was also hotly debated in 2022. The discussions about this dragged on for years.

To the outside world, Debian often appears to be at odds with one another, as upcoming decisions are often the subject of heated debate. In the end, however, the project seems to emerge stronger from such phases. This reliability may also be a reason why more derivatives are based on Debian than on any other distribution. Currently 122 active distributions use Debian as a base. Among them are such pioneering distributions as Knoppix or Ubuntu. If you add distributions that are no longer active, the number rises to 414. Impressive!

It all started with Knoppix

Our own timeline starts with Knoppix and went from Kanotix to sidux and aptosid to siduction, which we have been shipping for 12 years now. Debian has never failed us, but the decision making process has sometimes been a bit too slow. For example, we introduced systemd before Debian, and we have been shipping firmware as an option for some time to support current hardware on the installation media.

But otherwise siduction is probably 98% Debian Unstable. We thank you for that and wish the project at least 30 more years. Standing on the Shoulders of Giants.

What can you expect from siduction 2023.1.0 ?

First of all, a new wallpaper by artist Angevere (Ona Kristensen) awaits you, which we may use with kind permission.

The Flavours

The flavours we offer for siduction 2023.1.0 are KDE Plasma 5.27.7.1, LXQt 1.3.0, Xfce 4.18, Xorg and noX. GNOME, MATE and Cinnamon did not make it again this time because there is no maintainer within siduction for them. If you are interested, please get in touch. They may or may not come back at some point. Of course they are still installable from the repository.

The released images of siduction 2023.1.0 are a snapshot of Debian Unstable, also named Sid, from Aug. 16, 2023, enriched with some useful packages and scripts, a Calamares-based installer and a customized version of the Linux kernel 6.4-10, while systemd is at 254.1-2.

Note: User and password for the live session are siducer / live.

Non-free and Contrib:

The following non-free and contrib packages are installed by default:

Nonfree:

  • amd64-microcode – Processor microcode firmware for AMD CPUs
  • firmware-amd-graphics – Binary firmware for AMD/ATI graphics chips
  • firmware-atheros – Binary firmware for Atheros wireless cards
  • firmware-bnx2 – Binary firmware for Broadcom NetXtremeII
  • firmware-bnx2x – Binary firmware for Broadcom NetXtreme II 10Gb
  • firmware-brcm80211 – Binary firmware for Broadcom 802.11 wireless card
  • firmware-crystalhd – Crystal HD Video Decoder (firmware)
  • firmware-intelwimax – Binary firmware for Intel WiMAX Connection
  • firmware-iwlwifi – Binary firmware for Intel Wireless cards
  • firmware-libertas – Binary firmware for Marvell Libertas 8xxx wireless car
  • firmware-linux-nonfree – Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kernel
  • firmware-misc-nonfree – Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kernel
  • firmware-myricom – Binary firmware for Myri-10G Ethernet adapters
  • firmware-netxen – Binary firmware for QLogic Intelligent Ethernet (3000)
  • firmware-qlogic – Binary firmware for QLogic HBAs
  • firmware-realtek – Binary firmware for Realtek wired/wifi/BT adapters
  • firmware-ti-connectivity – Binary firmware for TI Connectivity wireless network
  • firmware-zd1211 – binary firmware for the zd1211rw wireless driver
  • intel-microcode – Processor microcode firmware for Intel CPUs

Contrib:

  • b43-fwcutter – utility for extracting Broadcom 43xx firmware
  • firmware-b43-installer – firmware installer for the b43 driver
  • firmware-b43legacy-installer – firmware installer for the b43legacy driver
  • iucode-tool – Intel processor microcode

Remove Non-Free Content

Currently, the installer does not offer the possibility to deselect packages that do not comply with the DFSG, the Debian Free Software Guidelines. This means that packages such as non-free firmware are installed on the system by default. The vrms command will list these packages for you. You can manually uninstall unwanted packages or remove them all by typing apt purge $(vrms -s) before or after installation. Otherwise, our remove-nonfree script can do this for you later.

Installation notes and known issues

If you want to reuse an existing home partition (or any other data partition), you should do this after installation and not in the Calamares installer. While it will work, it is more robust to add it afterwards. With some Intel graphics processors on some devices, the system may freeze shortly after booting into Live. To fix this, you must set the kernel parameter intel_iommu=igfx_off before rebooting.

Credits for siduction 2023.1.0

Core Team:

Torsten Wohlfarth (towo)
Hendrik Lehmbruch (hendrikL)
Ferdinand Thommes (devil)
Vincent Vietzke (vinzv)
Axel Konrad (akli)

Past contributors:

Alf Gaida (agaida) (eaten by the cat)
Axel Beu 2021†

Code, ideas and support:

Markus Meyer (coruja)
der_bud
se7en
davydych
tuxnix

Artwork:

The artwork is by Angevere (Ona Kristensen). We use it with kind permission.

Many thanks to all involved!

We would like to thank you, all the testers and all the people who have supported us over the years. This release is also thanks to you. We would also like to thank the birthday boy Debian, as this means we stand on the shoulders of giants. And now have fun!

On behalf of the siduction team:

Ferdinand Thommes

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