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From: ZephyrQ on 22 Mar 2010 11:40
I keep a fairly vanilla Lenny box to do most of my personal/work stuff
get frustrated when I want to play a newer game and/or upgrade some
software that is requiring a newer library. Usually backports aren't
available and/or too unwieldy.

My question is how usable is Sidux? I've read a few accounts that
Squeeze is still very glitchy (yes, I know Sidux is based on Sid) but
Sidux updates often enough to work through the problems on a daily
(almost) basis.

Anyone had any experience using Sidux and how usable was it compared to
Squeeze?


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From: Andrew Winnenberg on 22 Mar 2010 12:20
> Anyone had any experience using Sidux and how usable was it compared to
> Squeeze?

I have both a Sidux and a Squeeze install at the moment. Usability
wise they're roughly the same, though Sidux is generally faster about
getting fixes in place. Neither Sidux nor Squeeze will be as stable
as... stable, however.

I think choosing between the two really comes down to what you want
from your distro. Sidux provides a pre-configured desktop install with
a later kernel and a few nice usability scripts. If you want a
pre-configued KDE4 or XFCE install and don't mind doing some
maintenance then Sidux is worth exploring. If not, then I personally
wouldn't bother. Their "spices" are nice, but hardly necessary if
you're used to running vanilla Debian.


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From: Nuno Magalhães on 22 Mar 2010 12:30
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 15:19, ZephyrQ <ZephyrQ(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Anyone had any experience using Sidux and how usable was it compared to
> Squeeze?

I don't really notice unstable to be unstable, except when it is :)
Granted if you upgrade often you're more likely to run into trouble.
For my daily use, unstable is stable enough.

However, i am interested in this, i've stumbled across Sidux too and
am considering it.

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From: Jochen Schulz on 22 Mar 2010 12:50
Nuno Magalhães:
>
> I don't really notice unstable to be unstable, except when it is :)
> Granted if you upgrade often you're more likely to run into trouble.

In my experience, upgrading daily (or even twice a day) is almost
totally painless. Sure, you may hit a few more bugs on the way, but the
upgrade process itself is a totel non-issue. Upgrading a sid system that
hasn't seen any upgrades for six weeks is much more annoying.

> For my daily use, unstable is stable enough.

Same here. Private use only, though.

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