I’m confused as to whether you actually ran this distro before your review or just reviewed it from little tidbits you could quickly scrounge up.

Anyway, I really enjoyed Sidux when I gave it a whirl a while back. I went with the XFCE flavor and in the end it was simply too much work for me while I was attending classes. Despite this I look foward to trying it again (probably with the KDE 4.5 this time around) as it’s a smoking fast distro with the latest and greatest Debian has to offer (what more could you want eh? ).

I’m currently an Ubuntu 10.04 LTS user and if nothing else I plan to stick with this LTS release until 12.04 rolls around. I do however find it funny when people complain about the 6 months releases when there are 2 year LTS releases that are generally rock solid (at least for a desktop orientated distro).

I think a lot of people don’t realize that the LTS releases have 6 month point releases. Which means that LTS releases are not just static entities (especially with 10.04 and bringing in new major revisions of Firefox and maybe others?).

Anyway, just some miscellaneous points I wanted to address.

Cheers,
daemox

So, is sr a scsi dvd device?

Speed test:
>sudo hdparm -tT /dev/sr0
/dev/sr0:
Timing cached reads: 2 MB in 2.05 seconds = 999.29 kB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 4 MB in 3.39 seconds = 1.18 MB/sec

This seems slow and could therefore indicate that DMA is not enabled?

dmesg:
>dmesg|grep ata2
[ 0.207787] ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0×170 ctl 0×376 bmdma 0×1868 irq 15
[ 0.372917] ata2.00: ATAPI: HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8083N, 0K04, max UDMA/33
[ 0.388630] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33

Does this indicate that dma is enabled?
How do I find out?

VLC is much less choppy but only plays advertisements, not the film, on one specific film.

Running newly installed Ubuntu 10.04 with css installed.

Br,
Arne