The 7th monthly report of 2019 of the Sparky project: • ChourS finished translating all Sparky tools to Russian; thank’s a lot! • Linux kernel updated up to version 5.1.21 EOL & 5.2.5 & 5.3-rc2 • Sparky 4 “Tyche” transferred to ‘oldstable’ line • Sparky 5 “Nibiru” transferred to ‘stable’ line • the last live/install … Read more
As before, after releasing a new stable version of Sparky, there are a few changes to do. So… Sparky 4 “Tyche” is moved to oldstable line now. The latest 4.11 release is the last one of the 4 line, but it is still supported, the next 2 years about. Sparky 5 “Nibiru” just released, moving … Read more
There are new live/install media of SparkyLinux 5.8 “Nibiru” available to download. This is the 1st release of the new stable line, which is based on the Debian 10 “Buster”. Changes: – based on Debian 10 stable “Buster” now, repositories changed from ‘testing’ to ‘stable’ – system upgraded from Debian stable “Buster” repos as of … Read more
New live/install iso/img images of Sparky 4.11 are out. Sparky 4.11 “Tyche” is the last release of the 4 line which moves the base system from Debian stable “Stretch” to Debian oldstable “Stretch”. Make sure that Sparky 4 will be supported next 2 years about, so if you keep running your machine with Sparky 4, … Read more
Sparky 5 based on Debian 10 “Buster” has been moved to the new stable line now. What you should do now? 1. Check Debian repositories to make sure your OS uses ‘buster’ (or ‘stable’) repos at the /etc/apt/sources.list 2. Sparky 5 automatically changes its own repositories from testing to stable, by upgrading the ‘sparky5-apt’ package: … Read more