Sparky 2020.12

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The December snapshot of Sparky 2020.12 of the (semi-)rolling line is out. It is based on the Debian testing “Bullseye”. Changes: • packages updated from Debian testing repos as of December 3, 2020 • Linux kernel 5.9.11 (5.9.12 & 5.10-rc6 in Sparky unstable repos) • Calamares 3.2.34 + kpmcore 4.2.0 • APTus replaced by APTus … Read more

Simplest Studio

simplest studio

There is a new application available for Sparkers: Simplest Studio What is Simplest Studio? Simplest Studio is an application that allows you optimize and convert audio files. The following encoding modes are implemented: FLAC, WAV, DFF**, MP3. ** for use this format need to installed utility ‘sacd-extract’. Installation (Sparky 6 amd64 & i386): sudo apt … Read more

Slimjet

slimjet

There is a new application available for Sparkers: Slimjet What is Slimjet? Slimjet is built on top of the Chromium open-source project on which Google Chrome is also based. It enjoys the same speed and reliablity provided by the underlying blink engine as Google Chrome. However, many additional features and options have been added in … Read more

Nyxt

nyxt

There is a new application available for Sparkers: Nyxt What is Nyxt? Nyxt is a keyboard-oriented, extensible web-browser designed for power users. Conceptually inspired by Emacs and Vim, it has familiar key-bindings (Emacs, vi, CUA), is fully configurable and extensible in Lisp, and has powerful features for productivity. Nyxt supports GNU/Linux, macOS, and Guix with … Read more

LazPaint

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There is a new application available for Sparkers: LazPaint What is LazPaint? Free cross-platform image editor, like PaintBrush or Paint.Net, written in Lazarus (Free Pascal). Uses BGRABitmap library. Can read layered files (lzp, ora, pdn, oXo), multi-images (gif, ico, tiff), flat files (bmp, jpeg, pcx, png, tga, xpm, xwd), vectorial (svg), 3D (obj). Has drawing … Read more