New iso images of Sparky 2022.07 of the (semi-)rolling are ready to go. Changes between Sparky 2022.04 and 2022.07: – all packages upgraded from Debian & Sparky testing repos as of July 5, 2022 – Linux kernel 5.18.5 (5.18.9 & 5.15.52-LTS in sparky unstable repos) – Added new packages to iso images: nala, hypnotix, zstd, … Read more
Sparky oldoldstable 4 “Tyche” reached its end-of-life on July 1, 2022, as well as Debian 9 “Stretch” LTS. Sparky 4 is based on Debian 9 so support for Sparky 4 has been finished. If you still use Sparky 4, I recommend to upgrade to Sparky 5 “Nibiru”, following the Wiki page: https://wiki.sparkylinux.org/doku.php/upgrade_4_to_5 Alternatively, backup your … Read more
The 6th monthly Sparky project and donate report of 2022: – Linux kernel updated up to 5.18.8 & 5.15.51 LTS – Added to repos: NotepadNext text editor, WineZGUI a Zenity based simple GUI for Wine – Created a new community on Mastodon – APTus installs virtualbox-6.1 Oracle deb, instead of Debian Sid debs on Sparky … Read more
Dears Friends! There are 10 days left to the end of the month and we have only 31% of donations so far 🙁 We are balancing on a very thin line of profitability of our services. This means that without your help we may soon disappear from the web for good. We are very happy … Read more
The 5th monthly Sparky project and donate report of 2022: – Linux kernel updated up to 5.18.1 – Added to repos: Nala, Hypnotix, Bitcoin Core – Sparky 6.3 of the stable line released – ‘firefox-sparky’ & ‘firefox-esr-sparky’ Mozilla build packages moved to Sparky 5 oldstable & Sparky 4 oldoldstable repos too Many thanks to all … Read more