pavroo Call for testers! It is a development release of Sparky which is based on Debian testing “Bullseye”. Goals: • added support of installation Sparky on UEFI machines with Secure Boot; the live system should be booted with Secure Boot off; after installation the Secure Boot can be turned on • both installers: Calamares and Sparky’s … Read more
There are new tools available for Sparkers: Picom & Sparky Picom Manager. What is Picom? Picom is a standalone compositor for Xorg, suitable for use with window managers that do not provide compositing. Picom is a fork of compton, which is a fork of xcompmgr-dana, which in turn is a fork of xcompmgr. Installation: sudo … Read more
A quarterly update point release of live/install media of Sparky 5.11 “Nibiru” of the stable line is out. This is a release based on Debian 10 “Buster”. Changes: – the base system upgraded from Debian stable repos as of March 1, 2020 – Linux kernel 4.19.98 LTS (PC) – Linux kernel 4.19.97 LTS (ARMHF) – … Read more
There is a tool available for Sparkers, which lets you make full system upgrade in a text mode via just one command: Sparky Upgrade. The tool was introduced in Sparky APTus Upgrade 0.3.15. The Sparky APTus Upgrade offers a GUI to make your system upgrade, but if you prefer a text based tool, the Sparky … Read more
Many thanks to all of you for supporting our open-source projects, specially in this difficult days. Your donations help keeping them alive. Thanks a lot! Dziękuję bardzo! Vielen Dank! Merci beaucoup! Muito obrigado! Mnohokrat dakujem! どうもありがとう ! Don’t forget to send a small tip in April too, please 🙂 Country Supporter Amount Krzysztof M. PLN … Read more