aptosid is a distribution based on Debian Sid (unstable), and a very lean distribution as such: It is basically 'vanilla' Debian Sid, but with a custom kernel build and some scripts/patches to ease the potential pains of using the evolutionary unstable Debian branch.

Even though it is based on unstable, it is actually surprisingly stable. Which might seem like a contradiction!

In my experience it is more stable than Ubuntu, or even Linux Mint.

In this post I'll do a quick review of the distribution, and try to give you a list of reasons why you might want to switch to using aptosid as your new GNU/Linux distribution of choice.

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A new year with lots of promises is upon us - actually it's been a new year for a while now, but I only got around to blog about it just now - and a lot of things has changed in the geeky life of me.

In the following I'll outline the most important changes, namely the move from Windows to Linux as primary OS, from Ubuntu to Debian as Linux of choice, from Gnome to KDE as main desktop environment, from Visual Studio to KDevelop as C++ development environment, from Notepad++ to Emacs.

And, what's probably more interesting to you, I'll try to explain why the change has taken place, and what that means.

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