sunrat Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 Named after a Collective Soul song, it's here! We are very happy to present to you the final release of siduction 2013.2 – December. siduction is a distribution based on Debian’s unstable branch and we try to release a few new snapshots over the course of each year..... siduction 2013.2 – December is shipped with 5 desktop environments: KDE SC, XFCE, LXDE, Razor-Qt and GNOME, all in 32- and 64-bit variants. From the included DEs this time around only LXDE fits on a CD with 700 MegaByte. Release notes for siduction 2013.2 with systemd 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burninbush Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 Yes! Running it right now, the amd64/kde4 desktop. I always try the Siduction releases, but mostly they have fatal problems with my weird [?] motherboards; on this release almost everything works as I expect it should. Except the freaking clock, which I have not been able to figure out how to set so it stays set -- it just now reverted to something that is 8 hours ahead of my time. What I want is for the kde desktop to display the same time as my hardware clock -- which seems to be mostly automatic in the other 10 distros on this machine. And booting with old-style grub 0.97 ... I can't quite deduce what to say to it in kernel parms. But I can make it work by telling grub to use /boot/grub/grub.cfg as a config file. Anybody know what to say in 0.97? I usually would just name the kernel, tell it root=/dev/sda8, and name the initrd ... but doing that it jumps into a text screen [busybox?] shortly after I hit return, and I have no idea what went wrong. Clearly the install is OK if I use their configfile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted January 1, 2014 Author Share Posted January 1, 2014 For the time, it usually treats the hw clock as UTC. In the previous version, you can edit the file: /etc/adjtime In that file change UTC to LOCAL The new release has systemd instead of sysvinit, so I'm not sure if it's the same. I haven't tried December yet. I usually leave it on UTC and force Windows to use UTC. It's easier than changing every Linux install for just one Win install. With GRUB, I presume you are using another distro's legacy GRUB and want to add siduction to it. siduction has GRUB 2.00-22. Sorry, I really can't remember how to use legacy GRUB. I just install siduction's GRUB to /dev/sda and do update-grub whenever I change/add other distros. It has always worked. Maybe you can install siduction GRUB to the partition and chainload. I know I've just given you a couple of "maybe" answers. As always, siduction forums are very helpful and the devs post regularly. I know they are braced for a deluge of systemd related questions from this release. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted January 8, 2014 Author Share Posted January 8, 2014 Siduction "December" now installed. Boy, systemd seems to make a noticeable difference. Boots and closes like lightning. Only issues I've had were wifi and sound. I configured wifi with network-manager after installing firmware-atheros in the live system, easy-peasy. But then after installing I couldn't get online with console login, but OK in desktop. Out with network-manager and in with Ceni, all good now. As for sound, several problems. I prefer to use Phonon Gstreamer backend over VLC backend as Gstreamer supports crossfading. However couldn't play mp3, which I enabled by installing gstreamer-plugins-ugly. Had sound in Amarok but not with Flash in Iceweasel. I think my Nvidia HDA HDMI sound was stealing the top card spot. A quick edit of /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf to make my M-Audio Audiophile 2496 the top card and all is well. I haven't installed the Nvidia graphics driver yet as nouveau seems to be working well so far. Maybe later. So not quite a walk in the park, but only minor issues. From here on, most tweaks will probably just be cosmetic. I'll give it a 9.5/10 for total awesomeness and a definite improvement on the old system. But only 8/10 for out of the box instant useability, like any Debian system. Sunrat seal of approval! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 I'll give it a 9.5/10 for total awesomeness and a definite improvement on the old system. But only 8/10 for out of the box instant useability, like any Debian system. Sunrat seal of approval! Nice write up. How does antiX score on your seal of approval ? When I tried it over Christmas I could not get a wireless connection with either of two cards that both worked out of the box with XP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted January 10, 2014 Author Share Posted January 10, 2014 I tried antiX briefly in VBox. Looks great for a light system but I haven't used it enough to rate it. I currently use LinuxBBQ with LXDE as my light system, although the dev is taking an extended break so that may change soon. Start a new thread about your wireless and post what cards you have as shown in lspci/lsusb. If it's like Debian you need to install firmware. I'm sure we can get it working. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Start a new thread about your wireless and post what cards you have as shown in lspci/lsusb. If it's like Debian you need to install firmware. I'm sure we can get it working. Ta will do at some time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted January 29, 2014 Author Share Posted January 29, 2014 New 2013.2.1 images are now available to fix a few issues with the original release. Fix Release for siduction 2013.2 December Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mhbell Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 New 2013.2.1 images are now available to fix a few issues with the original release. Fix Release for siduction 2013.2 December Amen to that. Downloaded and installed it tonight. No problems I am using it as I write this.Mel 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted January 30, 2014 Author Share Posted January 30, 2014 Hallelujah! That's good news, Mel. I just did a NoX install with the new installer to build up a custom audio studio distro. Plain sailing so far. I had to dig into the old brain a bit to remember some of the command line fu. I accidentally formatted the swap partition which my main siduction install didn't like as it changed the UUID. journactl -bx -p 3 found the problem straight away. I just found the new UUID with blkid , edited it in fstab and back to normal. I'm liking systemd, and journalctl is much easier than checking log files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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