Hello crankypuss,
their are no scheduled builds available.
Okay, no nightly builds. Is it correct that there will be 32bit builds along with the 64bit builds that happen... what is it, every month or so?
Most users use installed systems and enjoy the rolling release.
Once I get siduction installed I hope to join them.
Did you know you can dist-upgrade in live-mode (anything besides kernel, because reboot)?
I'm not sure whether I knew that or not... I "know" that I can update a stretch install to sid by modifying sources.list and running the update program, but haven't attempted that yet. Are you saying that I could upgrade from stretch to siduction in more or less the same way? If so could you either post, or direct me to, the appropriate sources.list contents for upgrading from stretch to siduction?
Sometimes interested users contact us on irc://irc.oftc.net:6667/#siduction
and offer help to test fresh builds.
Some users build their own homebrew, see http://forum.siduction.org/index.php?topic=4777.0
greetings
musca
[edit: tricky smf doesn't support irc:// links, sorry. Just drag'n drop the link to another browser-tab]
I think that building a homebrew is beyond my connectivity limitations. I only have metered wireless broadband access through Verizon so the amount of data required to set up a mirror and keep it relatively current sounds (from the referenced thread) prohibitive.
Can you recommend an IRC client? I haven't used one since moving to linux a few years back. Of course google will show suggestions but if one is better than the rest please advise.
I was unable to get the siduction installer to work on the ASUS (as you know) but from what I saw of LXQT in live mode, it seems very nice. Please post or email more information about the approach of doing a dist-upgrade, that sounds like the most practical approach to this situation. Thanks.