This is the first update of Sparky 7 – 7.1 “Orion Belt”. 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 12, … 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
This is the July update of Sparky rolling iso images which works on Linux kernel 6.3, and provides updated packages from Debian ‘trixie’ and Sparky ‘sisters’ testing repos. What’s new: – all packaged upgraded from Debian and Sparky testing repos as of July 16, 2023 – Linux kernel 6.3.7 (6.4.3 & 6.1.38-ESR & 5.15.120-ESR in … Read more
The 7th update of Sparky 6 – 6.7 is out. It is a quarterly updated point release of Sparky 6 “Po Tolo” of the stable line. Sparky 6 is based on and fully compatible with Debian 11 “Bullseye”. Changes: – system upgraded from Debian & Sparky stable repos as of May 8, 2023 – PC: … Read more
The arm64 is a new architecture supported by SparkyLinux. The arm64 images are almost the same as armhf ones, but uses the Linux kernel and packages from the arm64 repos. The images can be used on such machines: – Raspberry Pi Zero 2 – Raspberry Pi 3 – Raspberry Pi 4 See the Raspberry Pi … Read more