The second development image of Sparky 4-dev20171127 armhf for RaspberryPi is available for testing. Changes between the present and the first development versions: • fixed detected and reported issues; including connection configuration of ethernet and wifi via network-manager applet; • replaced some applications to lighter ones, having in mind that the device has 1 GB … Read more
There is an update of SparkyLinux 4.7 “Tyche” out there. This is Sparky edition based on Debian stable line 9 code name “Stretch”. No big changes, the new iso images provide updates of all installed packages, from Debian “Stretch” and Sparky repositories as of November 17, 2017. Highlights: – Linux kernel 4.9.0-4 (4.9.51) – Xfce … Read more
There is the first image of Sparky 4-dev20171023 ARMHF available for testing. The new image is created for a single board mini computer RaspberryPi. From Wikipedia: The Raspberry Pi is a series of small single-board computers developed in the United Kingdom by the Raspberry Pi Foundation to promote the teaching of basic computer science in … Read more
There are new live/install iso images of SparkyLinux 5.1 “Nibiru” available to download. Sparky 5 follows the rolling release model and is based on Debian testing “Buster”. Sparky “Home” edition provides fully featured operating system with lightweight desktops: Xfce, MATE and LXQt. Sparky MinimalGUI (Openbox) and MinimalCLI (text mode) lets you install the base system … Read more
There is a new desktop available for Sparkers: Manokwari. Manokwari is a desktop shell for GNOME 3 with Gtk+ and HTML5 frontend. Manokwari is used by BlankOn Linux distribution. Recommended way to install Manokwari Desktop on Sparky host: sudo apt update sudo apt install sparky-desktop-manokwari or via APTus 0.3.x with ‘sparky-desktop’ >= 20170918 Successfully installed … Read more