Siduction 2021.3.0 (“Wintersky”): Social distribution with Linux 5.15.11 based on Debian

With Trigger Version 2021.3.0 (“Wintersky”) is the latest version of the social distribution, released by Linux developer Ferdinand Thommes, with a total of three current desktops based on Debian Unstable (“Sid”) and Linux 5.15. Computer base, in other contexts.

Three desktops and a window manager

The current release of Siduction, based on the snapshot of Debian Unstable from December 23, is offered in a total of five flavors, and is used with modern KDE Plasma 5.23.4 and higher resource saving desktops LXQt 1.0. 0 and Xfce 4.16.

The siduction community also offers a X.OrgComputer image with light window manager Flexbox on, not in the noX version X window layout Available through Cinnamon, known from MATE Desktop Environment, Linux Mint and LXDE, is not currently officially supported.

With immediate effect, in addition to the MATE missing in the last release, we will discontinue Cinnamon and LXDE distribution and focus on the KDE Plasma, LXQt, Xfce, Xorg and noX variants.

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In the latest version, PipeWire is now under Debian (“Sid”) PulseAudio And the iNet wireless daemon iwdSiduction 2021.1.0 has already been issued for Flavors X.Org and noX, and is now responsible for WLANs under KDE Plasma, LXQt and Xfce. There are also improved software packages.

In addition, the Siduction community graphical installation promises further improvements to the regular Calamares, which will be included in one of the upcoming releases.

As a small Christmas gift, we show you a small slide show with some of our wallpapers from the last 10 years during installation. We have additional plans for Kalamara in the future. We plan to release an image that is selectable on the installer, both for the desktop environment and for individual packages.

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Additional information on Siduction 2021.3.0 can be found officially here Release Notes.

Five computer images are available for download

Five layout images KDE (ISO), LXQt (ISO), Xfce (ISO), X.Org (ISO) And noX (ISO) Available for download and can be written to USB storage media with Ventoi and Rufus.