[conspire] Siduction ... trust path to ISOs?

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Tue Feb 26 23:02:34 PST 2019


Bollixed a name reference:

> Boy, I really do wish that the original project, Sidux, hadn't
> collapsed during internal political wrangles, and not just because they
> had the best name.  Wehen that happened, the developers all left and
> founded the 'Aptosid' fork (leaving a non-developer with the
> organisational entity and the Sidux trademark).  They were excellent for
> quite a few years.  Siduction was a further schism off of Aptosid
> supposedly motivated by the Siduction developers not caring enough about
                              ^^^^^^^^^ 'Aptosid'
> desktop computing.  (You never know, as an outsider, whether things like
> that are reason or pretext.)   


The claim at the time was that Aptosid was desktop-hostile, and one
couldn't help notice that the new Siduction fork produced about seven
DE 'flavours' in their ISOs, whereas Sidux and its immediate Aptosid
sucessor had several fewer.





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