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
The latest update has broken deepin desktop, so I updated all deepin related packages after. No luck anyway. The desktop is no longer compatible with Stretch, can be installed on Debian testing or Sid. All changes, tests and fight takes too much time so I decided to remove an installation option of deepin desktop from … Read more
The Pantheon Desktop Environment packages are installed in Sparky from a 3rd party repositories. The latest upgrade has broken the desktop on Sparky 5.x based on Debian testing “Buster”. The desktop packages are targeted to Debian Stretch and still work fine on Sparky 4.x. So, I removed Pantheon desktop installation from MinimalGUI/CLI iso images, and … Read more
There are new live/install iso images of SparkyLinux 5.0 “Nibiru” available to download. Sparky 5 follows rolling release model and is based on Debian testing branch “Buster”. From Wikipedia: In Babylonian astronomy, Nibiru (in cuneiform spelled dné-bé-ru or MULni-bi-rum). The term refers to the equinox and the astronomical objects associated with it… …Nibiru was considered … Read more