Dear Sparkers For a while someone has been trying hard to discredit SparkyLinux on Distrowatch, writing (user’s review) that there is a problem with the EFI and so, making Sparky useless in his opinion. I understand that not everyone likes SparkyLinux and it doesn’t work well on every machine, but if you are using SparkyLinux … Read more
The latest iso images of Sparky rolling 2022.03 have an issue with a DNS configuration via ‘systemd-resolved’. The live system features a small script which fixes it via ‘sparky-firstrun-fix’ package which is removed during post-install. But… If you find the same problem after installing Sparky on a hard/virtual drive, and can’t install the ‘sparky-firstrun-fix’ package, … Read more
Sparky 2022.03 of the (semi-)rolling line is out, which is based on Debian testing “Bookworm”. The new iso images provide: – all packages upgraded as of March 6, 2022 – Linux kernel 5.16.11 (5.16.12 & 5.17-rc7 in sparky unstable repos) – Calamares 3.2.53 – Firefox 96.0.3 (firefox-sparky 98.0 & firefox-esr-sparky 91.7.0esr (Mozilla builds) available in … Read more
МИ З ВАМИ The 2nd monthly Sparky project and donate report of 2022: – Linux kernel updated up to 5.16.11 & 5.17-rc5 – Added to repos: Microsoft Teams, Reinlendar2-lite, Mailspring, Sparky Launcher – Sparky 6.2 of the stable line released – Sparky changed the repos signing way, visit Sparky Wiki to get more info New … Read more
The last update of ‘apt’ package returns with an issue like that: W: https://repo.sparkylinux.org/dists/core/InRelease: Key is stored in legacy trusted.gpg keyring (/etc/apt/trusted.gpg), see the DEPRECATION section in apt-key(8) for details. It means, signing repos via ‘apt-key’ in the: /etc/apt/trusted.gpg file is deprecated now. How to fix it? Simply make system upgrade, specially the ‘sparky-apt’ and … Read more