Review: Aptosid (Install and First Impressions)
I’ve installed Debian here and there on different computers in the last seven or so years that I’ve been using Linux. I almost ended up being a Debian person, but the Fedora book at the bookstore was more comprehensive, so I was set along the Red Hat path. On the one hand, I’ve often envied Debian both for its ease up upgrades and for its stability. On the other hand, I like having the latest stuff. KDE 4.8 is about to come out and I’ll be restless for the next few months before it makes its way into Fedora. So Debian’s never quite been for me. I’ve heard a lot about Aptosid (formerly Sidux) which turns Sid (the unstable repo) into a usable distro. Of course, Ubuntu does this along with a little extra polish, so I figured I’d see what Aptosid’s up to.
As usual for my reviews, I ran Aptosid in a virtual machine, virt-manager. To my delight, Aptosid uses KDE, my preferred desktop environment. They’ve set it up to where the folder view is the whole desktop so it behaves like the desktops more people are used to.
Interestingly, they also have not chosen to have
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