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Last Update: 2025-05-17 18:09 UTC


The siduction distribution is a desktop-oriented operating system and live medium based on the "unstable" branch of Debian GNU/Linux. Forked from aptosid in late 2011, siduction offers many separate live media with a range of desktop environments. The project also promises regular releases, an open development model, and friendly relationship with its developer and user community.

Popularity (hits per day): 12 months: 100 (112), 6 months: 70 (178), 3 months: 105 (122), 4 weeks: 108 (120), 1 week: 97 (124)

Average visitor rating: 8.23/10 from 39 review(s).


siduction Summary
Distribution siduction
Home Page https://siduction.org/
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User Forums http://forum.siduction.org/
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Documentation https://manual.siduction.org/welcome
https://wiki.siduction.org/
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Recent Related News and Releases
  Releases announcements with download links and checksums:
 • 2024-12-24: Distribution Release: siduction 2024.1.0
 • 2023-08-17: Distribution Release: siduction 2023.1.0
 • 2023-03-10: Distribution Release: siduction 22.1.1
 • 2022-12-30: Distribution Release: siduction 22.1
 • 2021-12-24: Distribution Release: siduction 21.3.0
 • 2021-07-29: Distribution Release: siduction 21.2.0
 • 2021-02-15: Distribution Release: siduction 21.1.0
 • 2018-03-09: Distribution Release: siduction 18.2.0
 • 2017-12-31: Distribution Release: siduction 18.1.0
 • 2017-03-06: Distribution Release: siduction 17.1.0
 • 2016-12-24: Distribution Release: siduction 16.1.0
 • 2016-01-01: Development Release: siduction 15.1.0 Dev
 • More siduction releases...

  Headlines:
 • 2021-12-24 siduction narrows focus on desktop editions
 • More siduction headlines...

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amdgpu (23.0.0) 23.0.0 23.0.0 23.0.0 21.0.0 18.0.1 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- amdgpu (23.0.0)
apparmor (4.1.0)                             apparmor (4.1.0)
apt (3.1.0) 2.9.18 2.7.3 2.6.0 2.3.13 1.6.1 1.4rc2 1.4beta2 1.1.10 1.0.9.3 0.9.14.2 0.9.8.1 0.9.7.6 0.9.7 0.8.15.9 apt (3.1.0)
bash (5.2.37) 5.2.37 5.2.15 5.2.15 5.1 4.4 4.4 4.4 4.3 4.3 4.2 4.2 4.2 4.2 4.2 bash (5.2.37)
bind (9.20.9) -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- bind (9.20.9)
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cinnamon (6.4.10) -- -- -- -- 3.6.7 3.2.7 2.6.13 2.6.13 2.2.16 -- -- -- -- -- cinnamon (6.4.10)
cups (2.4.12) 2.4.10 2.4.2 2.4.2 2.3.3 2.2.7 2.2.1 2.2.1 2.1.2 1.7.5 1.6.4 1.5.3 1.5.3 1.5.3 1.5.0 cups (2.4.12)
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ffmpeg (7.1.1) 7.1 6.0 5.1.2 4.4.1 3.4.2 3.2.4 3.2.2 2.8.4 -- -- 0.8.6 0.8.4 0.8.3 -- ffmpeg (7.1.1)
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flatpak (1.16.1) 1.15.91 1.14.4 1.14.3 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- flatpak (1.16.1)
freetype (2.13.3) 2.13.3 2.13.0 2.12.1 2.11.0 2.8.1 2.6.3 2.6.3 2.6.1 2.5.2 2.5.1 2.4.9 2.4.9 2.4.9 2.4.8 freetype (2.13.3)
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mate-desktop (1.28.2) -- -- -- -- 1.20.1 1.16.1 1.10.2 1.10.2 -- -- -- -- -- -- mate-desktop (1.28.2)
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plasma-desktop (6.3.5) 6.2.4 5.27.7.1 5.27.2 5.23.4 5.12.5 5.8.4 5.8.4 -- 4.11.13 4.11.4 4.10.3 4.8.4 4.8.4 4.7.2 plasma-desktop (6.3.5)
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postgresql (17.5) -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- postgresql (17.5)
Python (3.13.3) 3.12.8 3.11.4 3.11.2 3.10.1 2.7.15 2.7.13 2.7.13 2.7.11 2.7.8 2.7.5 2.7.3 2.7.3 2.7.3 2.7.2 Python (3.13.3)
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samba (4.22.1) 4.21.2 -- -- -- 4.7.4 4.5.4 -- 4.3.3 -- -- -- -- -- 3.6.1 samba (4.22.1)
systemd (257.5) 257.1 254.1 252.6 249.7 238 232 232 228 215 204 -- -- -- -- systemd (257.5)
thunderbird (138.0.2) 128.5.2 115.1.0 102.8.0 91.4.1 52.7.0 45.7.1 -- 38.5.0 31.2.0 -- 17.0.5 10.0.10 -- -- thunderbird (138.0.2)
vim (9.1) 9.1 9.0 9.0 8.2 8.0 8.0 -- 7.4 7.4 7.4 7.3 7.3 7.3 7.3 vim (9.1)
vlc (3.0.21) -- -- -- -- -- 2.2.4 2.2.4 -- 2.2.0rc1 2.1.2 2.0.6 2.0.4 2.0.1 1.1.12 vlc (3.0.21)
wayland (1.23.1) -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- wayland (1.23.1)
xfdesktop (4.20.1) 4.20.0 4.18.1 4.18.1 4.16.0 4.12.4 4.12.3 4.12.3 4.12.3 4.10.2 4.10.2 4.10.2 4.10.0 4.8.3 4.8.3 xfdesktop (4.20.1)
xorg-server (21.1.16) 21.1.15 21.1.8 21.1.7 1.20.13 1.19.6 1.19.2 1.19.0 1.17.3 1.16.1.901 1.14.5 1.12.4 1.12.4 1.12.1.902 1.10.2.902 xorg-server (21.1.16)

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Version: 2024.1.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-05-07
Votes: 1


FAST ? You must go back into the 20th century to find a distro that boots in less than 2 minutes.

I have a dozen laptops to be "updated" to a "common" system, which ranges from PUPPY--->MINT.
Da Boss says everyone will get a new COMMON desktop, no exceptions. Yes, Sir.... period.

So far, its been a war zone ! Not one distro has fitted more than three old laptops, without problems.
We updated a fairly new machine from MINT to "SID" and that user was very impressed,,,
and pleased that her desktop looked the same ! She named it SID !

We may have a winner !!!
One old IBM laptop required a USB WiFi plug. A big-screen Toshiba needed video re-sizing.
Today, a hard-drive failed to format, so we are using a USB/HDD.

GOOD ? We have installed and re-installed PCs of every description over the years,
and are pleased to recommend SIDuction / Debian / XFCE.

Drawbacks: Fat applications (you know who), are useless in most business systems.
We wish the distro-install could skip-over selected / un-wanted, fat-apps.

CHEERS to the "SID" authors - you gotta winner !



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Version: 2024.1.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-04-13
Votes: 3


Finally - this is what Debian should be! Fast, smooth and up-to-date like Arch, without being Arch. :-)

I have a high-end gaming system and a lot of distros don't even support my hardware or require a bunch of messing around to get things working smoothly, and even then don't have the ability to install latest kernels or drivers etc...

Siduction just works. Currently running on kernel 6.14.2-1 and Mesa 25.0.3, giving all the best performance for games and system in general!

To the developers of Siduction - Thank you! :-)


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Version: 2024.1.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-03-14
Votes: 3


After almost endless distro hopping, the top 20 or even more of Distrowatch up and down, I finally got stuck with Siduction, great concept, rolling release Debian, and so far I am very satisfied.

Installation in a blink of the eye.

But beware, the volume keys and the mute key of the keyboard do /may not work on the Xfce desktop, but according to Google this is not a Seduction bug, but a bug of Xfce itself.

In any case, they don't work with my Logitech Master keyboard.


Otherwise I am very satisfied with the KDE desktop, after activating Flathub in Discover you can install practically an infinite number of apps. Very practical instead of having to work with the console.
When updating, however, I was advised in the very friendly Seduction forum to do this with the console and "apt-get upgrade", as this does not work properly via the Discover update due to "SID status"

Uninstalling apps works flawlessly both via the console and with Synaptic. Fortunately, a lot of "bloatware" (for my needs) isn't automatically installed.


Hardware was recognized immediately, integration of the Epson multifunction printer was ok straight away.

The PC is an “old” Aspire C24-860 All-In-One with Intel® Core™ i3-7130U and Intel graphics with 16 Gb RAM.

Seduction runs smoothly and quickly on it.
If it stays that way, we'll remain “pretty best friends” and I won't have to switch between distributions in the future, because Debian can finally keep up with Arch in terms of up-to-dateness, for example as far as the Linux version is concerned.




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