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

lazpaint

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

Sparky 5.13

A next point release of Sparky 5.13 “Nibiru” of the stable line is out. This release is based on Debian stable 10 “Buster”. Changes between 5.12 and 5.13: • system upgraded from Debian stable repos as of November 3, 2020 • Linux kernel 4.19.152 (PC) • Linux kernel 5.4.72-v7+ (ARMHF) • Firefox 78.4.0esr • Thunderbird … Read more

Sparky news 2020/10

The 10th monthly Sparky project and donation report of 2020: • Linux kernel updated up to version 5.9.2 & 5.10-rc1 • Sparky 4.13 “Tyche” of the oldstable line released • Sparky ‘oldstable’, ‘stable’ & ‘testing’ repos removed; use ‘tyche’, ‘nibiru’ or ‘potolo’ instead • Added to repos: MellowPlayer, Boostnote, FFQueue, Hiero • Added to APTus … Read more

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