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November 2019 donation report

2019/12/032019/12/03 by pavroo

Many thanks to all of you for supporting our open-source projects! Your donations help keeping them alive.

The last October and November all donations brought what we need to pay monthly bills and to cover our VPS as well, thank’s lot! The server bill is already paid so the new one will be ordered soon, and I will tell you know when, via social media, to make sure some problems are possible.

Anyway, counting all our bills and basic needs, we will be trying (asking all of you) to collect PLN 1000/€ 250/$ 270 every month, starting from the January 2020. It is really difficult to survive doing our works for free, selling nothing, as you know that, having the present amount of donations and a few Euros from the adds only. Sad but true.

Anyway, thank’s again for your last donations and don’t forget to send a small tip in December too 🙂

Country	Supporter	Amount
	Michał M.	PLN 50
	Peter E.	€ 25
	Krzysztof M.	PLN 50
	Andrzej K.	PLN 50
	Gernot P.	$ 10
	Kevin C.	$ 2
	Michel K.	€ 10
	Andrzej M.	PLN 5
	Karol N.	PLN 50
	Martyna K.	PLN 10
	Ruedi L.	€ 10
	Julian D.	€ 10
	Karl A.	€ 1.66
	Alexander F.	€ 10
	Agostino M.	€ 30
	Jacek G.	PLN 40
	Stanisław G.	PLN 20
	Andrzej P.	PLN 5
	Jorg S.	€ 2.5
	M. M.	PLN 25
	Carlos F.	€ 5
	Ryans Products LLC	€ 25
	Marcin C.	PLN 50
	Wolfgang L.	€ 12
	Lech S.	PLN 50
	Total:	€ 141.16 PLN 405 $ 12

Sparky 2019.12

2019/12/02 by pavroo

There are new live/install media of Sparky 2019.12 “Po Tolo” available to download, which is based on the testing branch of Debian “Bullseye”.

Goals:
• system upgraded from Debian testing “Bullseye” repos as of December 1, 2019
• Calamares installer 3.2.17
• Linux kernel 5.3.9 as default (5.4.1 & 5.3.14 in Sparky unstable repos)

No reinstallation is required if you have Sparky 2019.xx (of the line 6) installed, simply make full system upgrade.

New rolling iso images can be downloaded from the download/rolling page.

Known issues:
• encryption mode only – it works if you don’t use swap partition (automated partitioning on virtual machine tested only)

Sparky news 2019/11

2019/11/30 by pavroo

The 11th monthly report of the 2019 of the Sparky project:

• waterfox package changed its name to waterfox-classic-kpe
• Sparky 2019.11 Special Editions: GameOver, Multimedia & Rescue released
• Sparky 2019.11.1 MinimalGUI released to fix: GNOME Shell and KDE Plasma fresh installation; and removing some packages from live
• added new locales to Sparky tools: Greek provided by jidan; and updated Italian and Japanese locales as well; thank’s a lot for translations
• Linux kernel updated up to version 5.4.1 & 5.3.14
• CDE desktop updated up to 2.3.1 (stable & testing lines)
• added to repos: Videomass

Sparky 2019.11 Special Editions

2019/11/11 by pavroo

There are new live/install media of Sparky 2019.11 “Po Tolo” Special Editions available to download: GameOver, Multimedia & Rescue. The live system is based on the testing branch of Debian “Bullseye”.

GameOver Edition features a very large number of preinstalled games, useful tools and scripts. It’s targeted to gamers.

Multimedia Edition features a large set of tools for creating and editing graphics, audio, video and HTML pages.

The live system of Rescue Edition contains a large set of tools for scanning and fixing files, partitions and operating systems installed on hard drives.

Goals:
• system upgraded from Debian testing “Bullseye” repos as of November 10, 2019
• Calamares installer 3.2.16 + kpmcore 4
• Linux kernel 5.2.17 as default (5.3.10 & 5.4-rc7 in Sparky unstable repos)
• obmenu-generator removed from Rescue edition (due to Perl updated up to 5.30 and libgtk2-perl removed); it has been replaced by sparky-obmenu-rescue
• added Sid repos back (not active) – use it on your own risk
• Yad updated up to 5.0, but it is available from Sparky unstable repos now

No reinstallation is required if you have Sparky 2019.xx (of the line 6) installed, simply make full system upgrade.

New rolling iso images can be downloaded from the download/rolling page.

Known issues (encryption mode only):
• I performed a few tests with different partition combinations with the Calamares installer on an encrypted device – it works if I don’t use swap partition (automated partitioning on virtual machine tested only)

Sparky 2019.11

2019/11/03 by pavroo

There are new live/install media of Sparky 2019.11 “Po Tolo” available to download, which is based on the testing branch of Debian “Bullseye”.

Goals:
• system upgraded from Debian testing “Bullseye” repos as of November 2, 2019
• Calamares installer 3.2.16 + kpmcore 4
• Linux kernel 5.2.17 as default (5.3.8 & 5.4-rc5 in Sparky unstable repos)
• obmenu-generator removed from Openbox edition (due to Perl updated up to 5.30 and libgtk2-perl removed); it has been replaced by sparky-obmenu (+obmenu)
• added Sid repos back (not active) – use it on your own risk
• Yad updated up to 5.0, but it is available from Sparky unstable repos now

No reinstallation is required if you have Sparky 2019.xx (of the line 6) installed, simply make full system upgrade.

New rolling iso images can be downloaded from the download/rolling page.

October 2019 donation report

2019/11/02 by pavroo

Many thanks to all of you for supporting our open-source projects! Your donations help keeping them alive.

The last October donations brought ~75% what we asked for, so there is PLN 500/€ 125/$ 135 about missing to cover the VPS bill. As every month we also need PLN 500/€ 125/$ 135 to cover our other bills, Sparky and Linux related project, so consider to send extra tip this month to let us keep our services and work running, please.

I really hope we can do it with the best community in the World as you are!

Country	Supporter	Amount
	Krzysztof M.	PLN 50
	Ryans Products LLC	€ 25
	Dariusz M.	€ 10
	Władysław K.	PLN 20
	Gernot P.	$ 10
	Kevin C.	$ 2
	Krzysztof S.	PLN 40
	Michel K.	€ 10
	Andrzej M.	PLN 10
	Aymeric L.	€ 35
	Sebastian K.	PLN 50
	Reudi L.	€ 10
	Andrzej K.	PLN 50
	Alexander F.	€ 10
	Karl A.	€ 1.66
	Daniel S.	€ 10
	Stanisław G.	PLN 20
	Jacek G.	PLN 40
	Agostino M.	€ 30
	Jorg S.	€ 2.5
	Marek M.	PLN 10
	Massimo F.	€ 50
	Paweł G.	PLN 50
	Wolfgang L.	€ 12
	Francisco G.	€ 10
	Stefen Z.	€ 10
	William S.	€ 50
	Total:	€ 276.16 PLN 340 $ 12

Sparky news 2019/10

2019/10/31 by pavroo

The 10th monthly report of 2019 of the Sparky project:

• Sparky 5.9 based on Debian stable “Buster” released
• Linux kernel updated up to version 5.3.8 & 5.4-rc5
• Perl updated to 5.30 in Debian testing repos, so libgtk2-perl has been removed and -> obmenu-generator as well, from the Openbox edition (rolling/testing line only)
• sparky-obmenu installs and automatically configures obmenu for Openbox users, instead of obmenu-generator
• and the Rescue edition’s menu has been reconfigured as well
• Sparky rolling 2019.11 is on the way, stay tuned

Sparky 5.9

2019/10/072019/10/07 by pavroo

SparkyLinux 5.9 “Nibiru” is out. This is a quarterly update of live/install media of the stable line, which is based on Debian 10 “Buster”.

The base system has been upgraded from Debian stable repos as of October 4, 2019.
It works on the Linux kernel 4.19.67 LTS.
As usually, new iso/img images provide small bug fixes and improvements as well.

Sparky project page and Sparky forums got new skins; no big changes about the colors but they are much mobile devices friendly now.

Nemomen finished translating Sparky tools to Hungarian (thank’s a lot), but many of them still waiting for adding to packages.

Make sure our forums have been moved to a subdomain: https://forum.sparkylinux.org

System reinstallation is not required; if you have Sparky 5.8 installed make full system upgrade:
sudo apt update sudo apt full-upgrade
or via the System Upgrade tool.

Sparky 5 is available in the following flavors:
– amd64 & i686: LXQt, Xfce, MinimalGUI (Openbox) & MinimalCLI (text mode)
– armhf: Openbox & CLI (text mode)

New stable iso/img images can be downloaded from the download/stable page.

Payment day coming (2019)

2019/10/052019/10/05 by pavroo

Like every year Sparky needs YOUR help now!

As you know, SparkyLinux is a non-profit project so it does not earn money.
And probably some of you know that we have to pay bills for hosting server (vps), domains, the power (electricity), broadband (internet connection), etc., etc., from our personal, home budget.

The time for paying for our server coming quickly again so help us sending donation now!

This year we need a little more than last year: 1500 PLN for a newer and faster VPS which has to be paid until November 9, 2019. Due to often overloading the present one, it has to be replaced with a newer and a little faster one. I already made some improvements to make it working faster, but a new one is required anyway. There is also a new skin at the project and forums pages to make them much mobile friendly.

And as every month, we also need 500 PLN for other bills to cover most of our needs.

So all together, this month, we need your donations for about 2000 PLN / ~500 Euros / ~540 USD), please.

We also asked for donations our community at Linuxiarze.pl and ArchiveOS.org as well. Our virtual server hosts a few web pages, all IT / Open Source / Linux related: SparkyLinux.org, Linuxiarze.pl, ArchiveOS.org and SoftMania.org.

So please donate now to keep Sparky alive, any donation will be very helpful.

You are the best community in the Universe so I really believe we CAN do it!

Visit the donation page to find how to send out money.
Aneta & Paweł

September 2019 donation report

2019/10/242019/10/02 by pavroo

Many thanks to all of you for supporting our open-source projects!
Your donations help us keeping them alive.

Don’t forget to send a small tip in October too, please 🙂

Country	Supporter	Amount
	Viktor L.	€ 20
	Krzysztof M.	PLN 50
	Andrzej M.	PLN 30
	Michel K.	€ 10
	Reudi L.	€ 10
	Karl A.	€ 1.66
	Alexander F.	€ 10
	Jacek G.	PLN 40
	Yurij P.	€ 0.50
	Marian N.	PLN 50
	Stanisław G.	PLN 20
	Andrzej P.	PLN 5
	Jorg S.	€ 2.5
	Jeffrey V.	€ 20
	Karol N.	PLN 20
	Krzysztof B.	PLN 32.28
	Wolfgang L.	€ 12
	Gernot P.	$ 10
	Kevin C.	$ 2
	Wojciech H.	PLN 1
	Total:	€ 86,66 PLN 248,28 $ 12

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