Contents of the Live CD

Due to the complexity of law, sidux will only provide dfsg-free software on the live-cd, please check this link for additional information on non-free sources for firmware

The ISO is completely based on Debian Sid (up to date as of 2008-06-xx) enriched and stabilised with sidux' own packages and scripts. It comes with kernel kernel 2.6.26.slh.xx (smp, hard preemption). which is based on the most recent vanilla kernel together with sidux enhanced patches.

ACPI and DMA are enabled by default (can be disabled with acpi=off and nodma respectively in grub bootline)

i686 optimisation - not for use with older CPUs! (AMD64, Intel Core2, newer 64 bit capable AMD Sempron and Intel Pentium 4 CPUs (watch for the "lm" flag in /proc/cpuinfo or use infobash -v3) and i686 (Pentium pro/ Pentium II, AMD K7 Athlon or newer)

192 MB RAM required, 256 MB RAM recommended

Applications and Tools

The sidux-CD holds a variety of different programs and tools that cover almost any need of a desktop-user in everyday life.

KDE 3.5.9 (en + de). The graphical user-desktop that, enables you at a click of a button, to access programs/applications

For the Internet surfing Konqueror one of the worlds smartest web browsers with an extra kick: it has a file manager, FTP client and ssh -gui data transfer built in (sftp): very rare in web browsing world, and secondly iceweasel as an alternative.

For Networking and the Internet connecting there is ndiswrapper along with wpa/wlan and see our internal WIFI documentation. It now also includes driver support by mac80211 details are on main sidux site and here .

You wish to partition a hard drive, we have provided GParted and also cfdisk and gparted also now has an ntfs resize facility!

Diagnostic tools like Memtest86+ -Advanced Memory Diagnostic Tool

Complete manifests of each of the release variants are included on each download mirror.

Meta-Packages

Please refer to this page

Disclaimer

This is experimental software. Use at your own risk. The sidux project, it's developers and team members (all represented by the sidux e.V.) cannot be held liable under any circumstances for damage to hardware or software, lost data, or other direct or indirect damage resulting from the use of this software. If you do not agree to these terms and conditions, you are not permitted to use or further distribute this software.