After three years since the last update, the release of the Siduction 2021.1 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 of the new release began about a year ago, but in April 2020, the key developer of the Alf Gaida project stopped communicating, about which nothing has been heard since then and other developers have not been able to find out what happened. However, the team managed to gather their strength and continue development with the remaining forces.
Siduction is a fork of Aptosid that spun off in July 2011. The key difference from Aptosid is the use of a newer version of KDE from the experimental Qt-KDE repository as a user environment, as well as the formation of distribution builds based on fresh versions of Xfce, LXDE, GNOME, Cinnamon, MATE and LXQt, as well as a minimalistic build of X.Org on based on the Fluxbox window manager and a "noX" build supplied without a graphical environment for users who wish to build their own system.
The new release updates the desktop versions of KDE Plasma 5.20.5 (with the transfer of some components from the 5.21 branch), LXQt 0.16.0, Cinnamon 4.8.6, Xfce 4.16 and Lxde 10. The Linux kernel has been updated to version 5.10.15, and the system manager Systemd to 247. The package base is in sync with the Debian Unstable repository as of February 7th. Improved installer based on the Calamares framework. In the Xorg and noX builds, the iwd Wi-Fi daemon is used to configure the connection to wireless networks.
Source: opennet.ru