The release of the Siduction 2021.2 project has been formed, which develops a desktop-oriented Linux distribution built on the Debian Sid (unstable) package base. It is noted that the preparation for the new release began approximately a year ago, but in April 2020, the key developer of the project, Alf Gaida, stopped communicating, and nothing has been heard from him since. Other developers have been unable to determine what happened. Nevertheless, the team managed to gather their strength and continue development with the remaining resources.
Siduction is a fork of Aptosid that separated in July 2011. A key difference from Aptosid is the use of a newer version of KDE as the user environment, sourced from the experimental Qt-KDE repository, as well as the creation of distribution builds based on up-to-date versions of Xfce, LXDE, Cinnamon, and LXQt (GNOME and MATE builds were skipped due to lack of maintenance), and a minimalist X.Org build based on the Fluxbox window manager, along with the 'noX' build provided without a graphical environment for users who wish to assemble their system themselves.
The new release updates the versions of desktop environments to KDE Plasma 5.20.5 (with an additional build using Plasma 5.22.4), LXQt 0.16.0, Cinnamon 4.8.6.2, Xfce 4.16, and Lxde 11. The Linux kernel has been updated to version 5.13.6, and the system manager Systemd to 247.3-6. The package base is synchronized with the Debian Unstable repository as of July 28. In the Xorg and noX builds, as well as in the second build with Plasma 5.22.4, the iwd daemon is used for wireless network connections by default instead of wpa_supplicant (in other builds, iwd is provided as an option).
Source: opennet.ru
