The 3rd monthly #stayhome report of 2020 of the Sparky project: • Linux kernel updated up to version 5.6.0 • ChourS2008 translated a few Sparky wiki pages to Russian, thanks a lot • Nemoman keep translating Sparky wiki pages to Hungarian, thanks a lot • I keep translating wiki pages to Polish as well • … Read more
New iso images of Sparky 2020.03.1 of the (semi-)rolling line have been generated. This is a minor update of the live/install media which provides: • fixed issue which doesn’t let you boot Sparky 2020.03 copied to an USB stick • Sparky repository changed to the named “potolo” (“testing” works as before) • all packages updated … Read more
New Sparky named repositories have been created, alongside to the present ones: • oldstable-> tyche • stable-> nibiru • testing-> potolo What is it for? Developing and providing packages to Sparky based on Debian testing only was quite easy, it was just one branch, developed as a rolling release. No changes in repos required then. … Read more
Sparky live/install media of the ‘oldstable’ line updated up to version 4.12. Sparky 4 “Tyche” is based on the Debian 9 oldstable “Stretch”. Changes: • all packages updated as of March 11, 2020 • reconfigured Sparky repositoy to the present one • added a new Sparky public key System reinstallation is not required, make full … Read more
The March 2020 snapshot of Sparky 2020.03 “Po Tolo” of the (semi-)rolling line is out. It is based on the Debian testing “Bullseye”. Changes: – system upgraded from Debian testing repos as of March 7, 2020 – Calamares installer 3.2.20 – Linux kernel 5.4.19 as default (5.5.8 & 5.6-rc4 in Sparky unstable repos) – changed … Read more