Last Updated on: 18th September 2024, 04:57 pm
The 5th update of Sparky 7 – 7.5 is out.
It is a quarterly updated point release of Sparky 7 “Orion Belt” of the stable line. Sparky 7 is based on and fully compatible with Debian 12 “Bookworm”.
Changes:
– all packages updated from Debian and Sparky stable repos as of September 17, 2024
– Linux kernel PC: 6.1.106 LTS (6.11.0, 6.6.51-LTS, 5.15.167-LTS in sparky repos)
– Linux kernel ARM: 6.6.47 LTS
– LibreOffice 7.4.7 (24.2.5 in Debian backports repo)
– KDE Plasma 5.27.5
– LXQt 1.2.0
– MATE 1.26
– Xfce 4.18
– Openbox 3.6.1
– Firefox 115.15.0esr (130.0.1 in sparky repos)
– Thunderbird 115.15.0
– nala removed for some reasons (still available in the official repos)
3rd party apps:
– VirtualBox package updated to version 7.1 in Sparky repos; 7.0 has to be uninstalled before installing 7.1
Sparky 7.5 “Orion Belt” is available in the following versions:
– amd64 BIOS/UEFI+Secure Boot: Xfce, LXQt, MATE, KDE Plasma, MinimalGUI (Openbox) & MinimalCLI (text mode)
– i686 non-pae BIOS/UEFI (Legacy): MinimalGUI (Openbox) & MinimalCLI (text mode)
– ARMHF & ARM64 Openbox & CLI
PC live user:password = live:live
ARM user:password = pi:sparky
If you have Sparky 7 installed – simply keep it up to date. No need to reinstall your OS.
New iso images of Sparky 7 “Orion Belt” can be downloaded from the download/stable page
Informacja o wydaniu w języku polskim: https://linuxiarze.pl/sparky-7-5/