User:Pipersid

siduction is a desktop-oriented operating system based on the "unstable" branch of Debian, which uses the codename Sid. It was forked from aptosid in July, 2011. The distribution is offered in ISO image files, which can, after installation on a USB flash drive or DVD, be booted and run as-is, or installed to a hard drive with the included graphical installer. Multiple popular desktop environments are offered, including KDE, Razor-QT, XFCE, Gnome, and LXDE (soon to be merged with Razor-QT). The goal of the distribution is to provide a stabilized, easy-to-use and cutting-edge free, open-source operating system. The name is taken from the combination of the Sid branch of Debian, and the English word “seduction” -- a deliberate strong personal attraction.

Features
Siduction is based on Debian's most modern branch, “Sid”, also referred to as the unstable branch. This means that siduction is inherently a rolling-release distribution of Debian Linux, since the Sid repository receives software package updates on a continuous basis, supporting the development of the next stable release of Debian. Other Linux distributions that use the rolling release model include Arch Linux, Sabayon, Semplice, Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE), and others. Beginning with 2013.2 RC, the default initialization is systemd. The release notes, as well as the Debian wiki, provide information and relevant commands for using systemd and its journal. To enhance the usability of the native Sid branch, siduction provides a number of tools and scripts, including the graphical installer and ceni for network configuration. It includes a manual with detailed guidance for system configuration and administration. Of course, online guidance for support of Debian systems is abundant and generally applies to siduction.

Live media
Each release comes as an ISO image file, which is used to make a Live CD, a Live DVD, or (most popular) a bootable Live USB flash drive installation. These media boot to a graphical, fully functional Linux desktop. A graphical installer is included, if the user desires to perform a hard drive installation of siduction.

Installer
The graphical installer can be launched directly from the booted live session. Siduction can be installed to USB-connected hard disks and USB flash drives, as well as to internal hard disk drives.

Updates
Once siduction is installed, it can be kept up-to-date with updated packages from the Debian Sid and siduction repositories. Because of the possibility that critical new system files, including packages supporting the X server graphical display system, might be installed during an update, system updates are run at the command line using apt-get, after the X server is shut down. This prevents the possibility of pre-install and post-install scripts causing damaging conflicts with running user-space applications and/or a running X server. Therefore updates are installed at 'run-level 3' (for sysv configured systems) or in the multi-user.target level for systemd configured systems. Detailed instruction are included in the manual. Being a distribution of Sid, the active development branch of Debian, transitions of package versions can occasionally cause a situation where it is undesirable to update a siduction system, pending correction of a conflict. To help users avoid the problem, warnings regarding upgrades are posted on the main website and in the Upgrade Warnings section of the forum.

Support

 * The IRC channel #siduction at irc.oftc.net, port 6667 gives fastest response.
 * The forum is also a good place for questions, discussion, and tips, however the typical response time is longer.

Multilingual
The default language of siduction releases is English, however German, English (GB), Italian, Polish, Portuguese (BR), and Romanian (i18n support) are also provided within the DVD, selectable at boot prompt.

Packages
Siduction comes with the full Debian selection of software packages for general productivity work, system rescue/repair tasks, and internet-based surfing and communications. In the various Desktop Environments, default package suites have been selected for the released ISO image, and of course after installation the entire Debian repository is available for further adaptation of the system to the user's needs. The complete package list for each siduction release is included in the project download directory, named .manifest.

Releases
Siduction releases are prepared to coincide with major useful improvements in the underlying Debian Sid system and the desktop environments – thus they are not timed on a regular basis. Typically we have offered one or two releases per year, as shown below.

Name
The part sid of the distribution name is derived from Debian Sid (named after the Sid Phillips character in Toy Story). $foo bar baz ... The names of the releases are taken from famous rocksongs.

Software
Siduction releases contain only free software as defined by the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG). To aid proof of compliance, a monolithic tarball containing the source for all packages used in the release is provided alongside the Live CD ISOs. Access to non-free software such as codecs, plugins and wlan firmware can be enabled by configuring contrib and non-free Debian repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list.d

In keeping with the evolutionary nature of the "unstable" Debian branch, siduction releases do not provide an upgrade path from previous release versions. Rather, once installed, incremental updates are performed via regular "dist-upgrades". The idea of a "Release" is instead to improve Live CD hardware support, performance, flexibility and reliability, built from the current debian unstable repository.

System recommendations
Siduction is supported for the i686 computer architecture and the amd64 computer architecture.