The 3rd update of Sparky 7 – 7.3 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 March 13, 2024 – … Read more
Sparky 7.2 “Orion Belt” 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 December 5, 2023 – Linux kernel PC: 6.1.55 … Read more
This is the first release of Sparky 7.1 RC1 “Orion Belt” targeted to the single board mini computers Raspberry Pi. Changes: – based on Debian 12 “Bookworm” – added packages: exaile, radiostation, libreoffice, rpi-imager – jgmenu replaced openbox-menu – added pcmanfm daemon to openbox autostart, which lets you automount external drives now ARM user:password – … Read more
This is a minor update of Sparky of the oldstable line 6.7.1 “Po Tolo” targeted to the single board mini computers Raspberry Pi. It fixes one issue which breaks the Openbox desktop settings in both 6.7 armhf and 6.7-RC1 arm64 images The second, important change is that the arm64 (aarch64) images have been fully tested … Read more
Sparky 6.1 Release Candidate 1 ARMHF for single board machines RaspberryPi is out. It is based on Debian Bullseye packages and build using the pi-gen script. The system works on Linux kernel 5.10.63 and is available, as before, in two versions: – Openbox – with small set of applications – CLI – text mode only … Read more