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Re:SymphonyOS – Light, Friendly, and Useful by keithpeter on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @10:22AM (#10744753)
Quote from Wikipedia page about the OS

"At first, Symphony OS was based on Knoppix. Since its May 2006 release it is no longer based on Knoppix, but rather on Debian unstable, and features a functional hard drive installer."

Debian Sid is viable as the basis for desktop use, but there can be issues now and again and they can persist for a week or two. Just wondering at the target market for this one.

Always fun to do a dist-upgrade on anything Debian derived to see what happens...

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Re:SymphonyOS – Light, Friendly, and Useful by ryanq_do on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @10:26AM (#10744792)
The current release available on the website is based on Debian Wheezy and was released in January. A new release, with a completely re-written desktop, based on Ubuntu will be coming out next month.

The wikipedia page is out of date in many places

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Re:SymphonyOS – Light, Friendly, and Useful by keithpeter on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @12:24PM (#10745720)
Thanks for clarification. Wheezy is mega-stable at present. Good luck with the transition to Ubuntu!! Quite a job.
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