24 Nov
2008
24 Nov
'08
9:51 p.m.
david wrote:
Crypto wrote:
That is why Sidux has the smxi script for upgrades. The developers keep
a constant watch on upgrades and smxi will put a hold on anything that
breaks, thereby stabilizing the unstable. I highly recommend using smxi
rather than standard upgrade/dist-upgrade for Sidux. It's probably the
best feature of Sidux.
I used Sidux for some time on EeePC , and updated with smxi regularly
with no issues. Recently changed to Debian-Eee for it's specific
hardware support, but Sidux is great on my no.2 desktop PC. I'd use it
on no.1 desktop (Debian testing), but can't bear the thought of re-doing
2 years of tweaks and config. :) It multi-boots Studio64 for serious
audio work and Sidux for checking out bleeding-edge packages. The main
Debian testing runs Jack and audio apps nicely too, but not RT.
There are very good reasons to have a closer look
at sidux. Amongst other
things: there are packages for dssi-vst, RT kernel, Rosegarden etc. which can
be installed conveniently via apt-get.
I understand Sidux is an attempt to make a usable distro out of Debian's
Unstable repository. I've used it, it's a great distro. Only drawback I
know of is that if you do an upgrade, it becomes pure Debian Unstable -
which sometimes can be very very unstable!