Features

• Simple Desktop Environment(SDE). It's a fork of old LXDE keeped dependency on Gtk2 with very customizable panel.
• Openbox or PekWM as a window manager.
• PISI package manager.
• Just lynx as a web browser.
• No any installation helpers.

Resources

• Side project repositories - https://codeberg.org/side
• Simple Desktop Environment repositories - https://github.com/sde-gui
• Handbook resources

Short FAQ

• See pisi help and service help output for system management.

Feedback

• uglyside@yandex.ru <- Me (Requests and suggestions for Side distribution. Currently dead.)
• wandrien.dev@gmail.com <- Vadim Ushakov (Simple Desktop Environment developer.)
• Bug reports and pull requests (see Resources).

Images

• Docker image for package maintainers - https://hub.docker.com/u/uglyside
• Download live ISO - https://sourceforge.net/projects/lxdeside/files/iso/

Important note

A few months ago sourceforge remove some old iso images and large packages from lxdeside project page. Currently sidelinux project has one reliable source: codeberg. Temporarily since 2026.01.17 use docker image and source repos for get packages.

Live user - uglyside, password - live, Release notes