SparkyLinux 3.4 “Annagerman” MATE, Xfce and Base (Openbox) is out. As usually new iso images of SparkyLinux provide a ton of updates, some changes and system improvements, such as: – Linux kernel 3.14 – all packages upgraded from Debian testing repositories as of 2014/06/23 – MATE 1.8 – Openbox 3.5.2-6 – Xfce 4.10 – support … Read more
SparkyLinux 3.4 “Annagerman” LXDE, Razor-Qt and Enlightenment 18 is out. New iso images of SparkyLinux 3.4 provide a ton of updates, some changes and system improvements, such as: – Linux kernel 3.14 – all packages upgraded from Debian testing repositories as of 2014/05/31 – LXDE 0.5.5-6 – Openbox 3.5.2-6 – Razor-Qt 0.5.2-4 – Enlightenment has … Read more
We have two updates of our tools: 1. Sparky-Backup-System 0.1.7 – features the new init system “systemd” which is the default init system for all Sparky versions now. 2. Sparky-Backup-Apps 0.1.4 – fixed Liferea backup bug due to changes with different Liferea locations of configuration files.
New testing iso image of SparkyLinux 3.3.2-test3 Base Edition is out. This is the third and probably the last testing iso image before the final version of Sparky 3.4 will be published in June. As usual, all packages have been upgraded from Debian “testing’ repository (14/May/2014). New iso image of 3.3.2-test3 includes changes: – … Read more
I have upgraded all Sparky editions on my machine this week. All of them went well, but ‘systemd’ has been installed automatically. It’s time to switch from ‘sysvinit’ to ‘systemd’ now. ‘sysvinit’ is an older version of init system used in Debian based systems. From Wikipedia: ‘init (short for initialization) is the first process started … Read more