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Following up from the torrent for 2009-03 you can now find the trackerless torrent file for 2009-04 here.

Update

I think it's time to give up on trackerless torrents for now (though some data has been transferred) so use this tracked torrent file for 2009-04. Apart from anything else the meta-trackers don't seem to like the untracked torrents.

3 years ago today about 5 weeks after sidux said to to world that 'we are on deck', the sidux Operating System Manual was uploaded and sent live online. Back then it consisted of about 25 files and in 2 languages (DE and EN) . It is now has 48 files and is in 16 languages ……

qt-fll-iso2usb-gui is an easy to use gui front-end for the sidux usb installer written in C++ using the Qt toolkit with the KDE users in mind. 

Since I got accepted as an official sidux developer a few days ago I figured that this would be a good time for a first blog post introducing myself to the rest of the community.

kexec allows you to reboot into a new kernel without touching the bios or your bootloader. It was added to 2009-03 and was meant to have LOAD_KEXEC=false preset by debconf in /etc/default/kexec so people wouldn't get a possibly nasty suprise when they reboot. A bug crept in, wasn't caught and 2009-03 shipped with LOAD_KEXEC=true, which is the default in Debian.

Surprise

If you installed with 2009-03, until you dpkg-reconfigure kexec-tools you will not get the choice to select another OS or change boot options if you reboot rather then shutdown and restart!

The best way to get a sidux iso is from the mirror servers. There are http, ftp and rsync services on offer.

Some people just love torrents though, so rather then having partial unofficial torrents out there I decided to publish a semi-official torrent.

New with sidux 2009-03 (preview) you can use the firmware cheat to have the contents of the first found sidux/firmware directory (on hd, usb or 2nd optical drive) copied to /lib/firmware.

KDE4 brings about new technologies for the desktop. Next to Akonadi there is Nepomuk. Nepomuk is a project of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and was adopted for KDE4, promising the semantic desktop.

The semantic desktop, derived from the term semantic web tries to make meaningful connections of data and information on our computers across different filetypes. This is done with the universal filetype Resource Description Framework (RDF). More in depth information on the semantic desktop can be found under http://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main1/Project+Objectives . Nepomuk also brings along Strigi for indexing and desktopsearch. It will be interesting to see what Nepomuk will bring about in the future.

After our web site got a new default design and we have added a blog, we also offer a new download module – thanks to Xadras. It is much easier now to find the right ISO file fitting to your needs. The wizard is guiding you through the process, and everything can be selected with a few mouse clicks.

But much more has happened under the hood:

Greetings all,

I thought I should give some information on the state of the sidux Manuals.

The sidux Operating System Manual:
After nearly 2 and a half years of frantic development, the pace slowed to a more sedate rate in the last few months. (Much to the relief of the translation team I might add!!!).

(Original article by devil at 2009-05-16 in the previous blog) -- As already posted in the news entry "POSTALERT: Xserver-Xorg 1.6 is here" (see [1]) the upgrade to Xorg 1.6 brings about some changes and new features.
The main changes are with input device handling (mouse, keyboard, touchpad, etc.), which from now on can be handled by HAL instead of X.org.
HAL (hardware abstraction layer) or more precisely hald (hal-daemon) is a service that governs connected devices in realtime (see [2]).

Hi future bloggers,

welcome to the sidux blog.

We hope that people from sidux-dev and the sidux team will give the community a bit more of a clue on whats happening behind the scenes.  I believe bloggers and readers could both benefit from this and maybe we get some more users interested in being part of sidux development.

Ideas to make this an interesting place are highly welcomed.

Thanks to devil for this great idea, and the initial articles.