There is a new, testing live/install iso image of SparkyLinux 4.8 RC “Tyche” available to download. Sparky 4 is based on Debian stable line “Stretch”. Sparky 4.8 RC is a release candidate to upcoming next 4.8 stable release. Changes between 4.7 and 4.8 RC: – full system upgrade from Debian stable repos as of April … Read more
There are new live/install iso images of SparkyLinux 5.3 “Nibiru” available to download. Sparky 5 follows rolling release model and is based on Debian testing “Buster”. Sparky 5.3 provides fully featured operating system with lightweight desktops: LXQt, MATE and Xfce. Sparky MinimalGUI (Openbox) and MinimalCLI (text mode) lets you install the base system with a … Read more
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