siduction Cinnamon For Linux

siduction Cinnamon is a free, open source and beautifully designed GNU/Linux operating system derived from the siduction Linux distribution, which in turn is derived from the award-winning Debian distro.

The Cinnamon edition of the siduction operating system is distributed as Live DVD ISO images that have approximately 1 GB in size each, designed to support both 32-bit (x86/i386) and 64-bit (x86_64/amd64) computers.

To use the ISO images, you will have to write them on either blank DVD discs, with any CD/DVD burning software, or on USB flash drives of 1GB or higher capacity, which can be later used to boot the operating system from the BIOS of a PC.

From the Live DVD boot menu, which will be encountered by uses when booting the bootable medium as explained above, you can start the live system with normal configuration or in safe graphics mode, boot an existing OS from the local drive, as well as to run a memory test.

As its name suggests, the distribution uses the Cinnamon desktop environment for its graphical sessions, both 3D and 2D software rendering modes are available. The interface boasts a traditional layout with a single panel located on the bottom edge of the screen.

The distribution has been designed from the ground up to be deployed on computers with old and semi-old hardware components, that’s why it uses Cinnamon and comes pre-loaded with lightweight apps.

It uses the AbiWord word processor and Gnumeric spreadsheet editor instead of LibreOffice, the Iceweasel web browser instead of Mozilla Firefox, as well as the IceDove e-mail and news client instead of Mozilla Thunderbird.

Among other apps, we can mention the Brasero CD/DVD burning software, Rhythmbox music player, Totem video player, Sound Juicer Audio-CD ripper, GParted partition editor, and Guake terminal emulator.