smxi on sidux is gone. Whither art thou smxi?

[radu]

Has anyone made a comparison of the various options for a smxi/Linux system? Kernel capabilities? Stability before and ofter upgrades? Interfaces? System tools? etc? Are there any links?

Although this can easily become a gnome v. kde flame war it would would be a useful tool for a newbie (to either Linux or smxi) trying to pick the best flavour.

I switched off Mepis when it went Ubuntu-based, and installed Kanotix. At one time I had problems upgrading and on IRC somebody (h2, slh?) recommended what is now smxi. One night my Kanotix suddenly and seamlessly turned into sidux before I could understand what that meant. I've only had a coupe o upgrade problems since.

[techAdmin]

The first part of your question doesn't appear to have any meaning I can see, think about it more and try putting it into more concrete terms.

The 'seamless' upgrade from kanotix to sidux was the result of hundreds of hours of development from me and the sidux core guys, that was back when we worked as a 'team', closely, smxi was the only actual clean upgrade path for a while, even though today the sidux guys like to pretend that part of their history simply never existed.

Everyone involved in sidux worked hard to get that initial upgrade happening, but even with that, I've found that the old kanotix stuff had some hacks in it that simply will never be fully right, though for some users it's been fine, for my systems I had to do some manual hacking and bug hunting to get rid of some errors, but once gone, it's been fine.