Vanillux: A Debian-based Rolling Distribution

To be honest I did not know about this distribution, in fact, I found out about it from a comment on Com-SL and I started looking for information about it.

I cannot say for sure if this distribution adds "something else" to Debian In terms of ease or usability, in fact, without wanting to detract from it, I don't think it gives us "anything better" except the Rolling feeling. For this I would have to download it and test it thoroughly, but it seems to me that we can have the same (or something similar) to what it offers us LMDE.

To use it we can use two methods:

<° - We download this script and run it on Debian.
<° - Or we download the images of the disks for i386, amd64 or ARM

I think the first method would be the most satisfactory if we do an installation of Debian from scratch and we don't install anything other than the Base System. Afterwards, we would just have to execute this:

# wget http://dl.vanillux.org/debian-vanillux/vanillux-install.sh && chmod +x vanillux-install.sh && ./vanillux-install.sh

vanillux uses Gnome Shell as a desktop environment and gives us the option to use Gnome fallback if we need some more performance. Chromium y VLC they come by default. Other applications like LibreOffice and others, can be installed later. The part that is not clear to me is which repository to use if we want to have a distro rolling release, Ya que vanillux has the following repositories:

Stable

The stable repository where the initial release packages are located.

• deb http://apt.vanillux.org/vanillux vanillux main non-free
• deb-src http://apt.vanillux.org/vanillux vanillux main non-free

Testing

This is where packages that have been stable enough to be used are tested. Today, this is where Vanillux resides.

• deb http://apt.vanillux.org/vanillux testing main non-free
• deb-src http://apt.vanillux.org/vanillux testing main non-free

Unstable

This is where developers can upload their packages for testing.

• deb http://apt.vanillux.org/vanillux unstable main non-free
• deb-src http://apt.vanillux.org/vanillux unstable main non-free

Experimental

This is where next-gen packages are put to the test.

• deb http://apt.vanillux.org/vanillux experimental main non-free
• deb-src http://apt.vanillux.org/vanillux experimental main non-free

Upstream

This is where we let the open source community upload the latest version of their packages.

• deb http://apt.vanillux.org/vanillux upstream main
• deb-src http://apt.vanillux.org/vanillux upstream main

Vendors

This is where we are going to let third party providers load their packages to keep their users up to date. These packages may have end user license restriction or if you require a paid license key.

• deb http://apt.vanillux.org/vanillux vendors main non-free
• deb-src http://apt.vanillux.org/vanillux vendors main non-free

That is, it is something similar to what we can find in debian

Support and contact

If you need help or want to contact the creators of the project, we can use the IRC irc.vanillux.org, Forum community.vanillux.org, via mail info@vanillux.org or via Twitter twit.vanillux.org.

If someone is encouraged to try it, please give us their impression 😀