The June snapshot of Sparky 2020.06 of the (semi-)rolling line is out. It is based on the Debian testing “Bullseye”. Changes: • system upgrade from Debian testing repos as of June 5, 2020 • Linux kernel 5.6.14 (5.7.0 in Sparky unstable repos) • Firefox 77.0 • Thunderbird 68.8.1 • LibreOffice 6.4.4.2 • debi-tool’ replaced by … Read more
Call for testers. It is a development release of Sparky which is based on Debian testing “Bullseye”. The Sparky Advanced Installer received (experimental) improvements by darekem73, such as: • autopartitioning • partition encrypting • logical volume support The Yad based GUI is disabled, so text mode only. Other changes: • sparky tools uses ‘spterm’ (Sparky … Read more
The May snapshot of Sparky 2020.05 of the (semi-)rolling line is out. It is based on the Debian testing “Bullseye”. Changes: • upgrade from Debian testing repos as of May 5, 2020 • Linux kernel 5.6.7 (5.6.10 & 5.7-rc4 in Sparky unstable repos) • Calamares 3.2.23 • added additional support of Sparky installation on UEFI … Read more
A quarterly update point release of live/install media of Sparky 5.11 “Nibiru” of the stable line is out. This is a release based on Debian 10 “Buster”. Changes: – the base system upgraded from Debian stable repos as of March 1, 2020 – Linux kernel 4.19.98 LTS (PC) – Linux kernel 4.19.97 LTS (ARMHF) – … Read more
New iso images of Sparky 2020.03.1 of the (semi-)rolling line have been generated. This is a minor update of the live/install media which provides: • fixed issue which doesn’t let you boot Sparky 2020.03 copied to an USB stick • Sparky repository changed to the named “potolo” (“testing” works as before) • all packages updated … Read more