Kanotix seeks stability, sidux follows unstable [LWN.net]

Kanotix seeks stability, sidux follows unstable

Posted Jan 8, 2007 0:49 UTC (Mon) by cleary (guest, #41669)
In reply to: Kanotix seeks stability, sidux follows unstable by codermattie
Parent article: Kanotix seeks stability, sidux follows unstable

"Forking debian unstable to stabilize and release as a new distribution is now classic"

Just to clarify, sidux does not "fork" debian unstable, it sticks as close as possible to pure debian sid, including using the same repositories.
What sidux attempts to provide is timely patching/package holding/highly visible warnings for problem packages in dist-upgrades, current kernels - stable and rc (for the game) as well as a community to help when things go awry.
It provides open source livecd-from-scratch building tools, as well as various other live cd related utils.
It (will) provide a fast hd installer in a similar way to Kanotix, which at best I've managed to boot and do a full install in under 10 mins (using the toram cheatcode).
It's aimed at desktop users who want bleeding edge software with the least amount of pain.

The points you raise about merging technology/Git look very interesting, my experience with code repositories is currently very limited so I'm not in a position to comment in any detail :(

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