There are new live/install iso images of SparkyLinux 5.2 “Nibiru” available to download. Sparky 5 follows rolling release model and is based on Debian testing “Buster”. Sparky 5.2 provides fully featured operating system with lightweight desktops: Xfce, MATE and LXQt. Sparky 5.2 MinimalGUI (Openbox) and MinimalCLI (text mode) lets you install the base system with … Read more
Sparky 4.7 armhf for RaspberryPi is out now. Sparky of the 4.x line is based on the stable branch of Debian 9 “Stretch”. This release is available in two versions: • Openbox – with a small set of applications • CLI – text based Hightlights: • fixed all known issues • changed ‘volumeicon’ to ‘pnmixer’ … Read more
Sparky monthly report of the November 2017: – keep building missing packages for armhf arch – re-built some sparky tools to be compatible with armhf arch – enlightenment updated up to version 0.22.1 and efl up to 1.20.6, so they are available now for i386, amd64 & armhf archs – lumina-desktop updated up to … Read more
The second development image of Sparky 4-dev20171127 armhf for RaspberryPi is available for testing. Changes between the present and the first development versions: • fixed detected and reported issues; including connection configuration of ethernet and wifi via network-manager applet; • replaced some applications to lighter ones, having in mind that the device has 1 GB … Read more
There is a development iso image of Sparky 5-dev20171120 MinimalGUI ready for testing. The Sparky 5 live system is based on Debian testing “Buster”. All packages have been updated as of November 20, 2017. The most important change is about disk encryption. The Calamares installer has full disk encryption option enabled to be used during … Read more