sidux 2008-04 Pontos - Not for the faint-hearted
Some time ago, a fellow user in one of the forums suggested I try sidux. Why I asked? Well, he said, sidux is Debian-based, it's light, stable and fast. After reading online a bit, I found overall positive impressions, I decided to follow suit and test sidux.
As always, I approached the distro with the "average Joe" attitude. The average Joe is a rather strict user. His distros must be fun, intuitive, hardware friendly, and easy to configure, while retaining a relatively high level of performance and good looks.
Not an easy test, after all. In this review, you'll see how well sidux fares against the daily challenges of casual computer usage - live CD experience with all its ups and downs, including Wireless support, browsing, multimedia support, Windows support, and more; then the installation and other configurations.
Can sidux satisfy these demands?
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The average Joe probably should not use sidux
sidux is based on Debian sid, aka the unstable distribution. PCLOS, ubuntu/mint are better choices.
sidux is pretty nice!
Never having tried sidux until 2009.1, I have to say I like it. 2009.1 was released February 15. Why the author of this article chose to blog on 2009.4, which was released December 23, or almost 3 months prior to 2009.1 is beyond me. All it does is express his personal frustrations with a release that is no longer current. Or, in other words, it has no value.
sidux does, however, require that you do things correctly in order to achieve correct results. Jumping in willy-nilly and trying to make things work the way you want--rather than doing it the sidux way--will usually render the appropriate results. sidux bills itself as "Debian-Hot & Spicy!" and it is. I would advise anyone who wants actual results, to avail themselves of the appropriate tools, such as smxi/sgfxi. They are there for a reason, and will make the new sidux user grateful for them. Besides these, there is a tremendous amount of help available in their user forum and via IRC.
As I said, I like sidux 2009.1. It has one of the best--if not the very best--implementations of KDE 3.5.10 still available. YMMV.
regards,
-dc