Thunderbird – the email client is available for sparkers now. Sparky is shipped with the Icedove email client as default – Debian’s rebranded Thunderbird. If you do not like/want/etc. Icedove – the Thunderbird can be installed from our repository. Check do you have installed ‘hunspell-en-us’ package, before installing Thunderbird: sudo apt-get update apt-cache policy … Read more
Enventor 1.0.0 landed in Sparky repository. Enventor is an EDC editor with some convenient functions. It was started near the beginning of June 2013, so expecting it to do everything a mature script editor does is a bit premature. It is a visual EDC editor with real-time preview of the Edje file. Does syntax highlighting, … Read more
The Calligra suite 2.9.7 is available for Sparkers now. From Wikipedia: Calligra Suite is a graphic art and office suite by KDE split from KOffice in 2010. It is available for desktop PCs, tablet computers, and smartphones. It contains applications for word processing, spreadsheets, presentation, databases, vector graphics, and digital painting. Calligra uses the OpenDocument … Read more
A few lines let you know what is going on inside Sparky. If everything goes fine, new live/install iso images of Sparky 4.4 should be ready on the end of the next week. The ‘Calameres’ installer is available in our repository, but is not configured to install the system on UEFI machines yet. An … Read more
The default Sparky’s backup tool ‘Sparky Backup System’ has been upgraded up to version 20160808 (‘sparky-backup-core’ and ‘sparky-backup-sys’). Sparky Backup System is a tool which lets you backup your installed version of Sparky, including all installed applications, desktops and desktop settings into a single iso image file. But it doesn’t backup your personal files from … Read more