The Trinity Desktop Environment is available to install for Sparky users now. From Wikipedia: The Trinity Desktop Environment project (TDE) is a fork of KDE 3.5, organised and led by Timothy Pearson, who had coordinated Kubuntu remixes featuring KDE 3.5, after Kubuntu switched to KDE 4. This project aims to release continuing bug fixes, additional … Read more
New, updated iso images of SparkyLinux 4.3 “Tyche” are available now. As before, Sparky “Home” editions provide fully featured operating system based on the Debian ‘testing’, with desktops of your choice: LXDE, LXQt, KDE, MATE and Xfce. Changes between version 4.2 and 4.3: – full system upgrade as of April 24, 2016 – Linux kernel … Read more
There is the Budgie Desktop 10.2.4 available in our repository. If you have an older version installed, simply make system upgrade: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade If you would like to make fresh installations, do: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install budgie-desktop The source package is available too, if you’d like to build … Read more
There is a new tool from the “e” group targeted to the Enlightenment developers, and available in the Sparky repos now: Enventor. Enventor is an EDC editor with some convenient functions. It was started near the beginning of June 2013, so expecting it to do everything a mature script editor does is a bit premature. … Read more
There is a quick (very quick) update of Enlightenment 0.20.5 ready in Sparky repository now. If you have an older 0.20.x version installed, simply make system upgrade: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade If you would like to make fresh installations, do: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install enlightenment