I am happy to say that all the required money we already found (received), thank’s to all of your donations! The VPS for next 2017 has been paid now, and the equipment (new internal hard drive and power supply) is ordered and coming now. Don’t forget you can support Sparky any time you’d like, to … Read more
There is an updated iso image of Sparky 45-dev20161107 ready to go. It fixes a small issue around authentication agent found in the previous 4.5-dev20161106 iso. The development iso images for i686 and x86_64 machines are placed on the download/development page. Please test it and report whatever you find.
There is a development iso image of Sparky 4.5-dev20161106 MinimalGUI ready for testing. The new dev iso image features: • Linux kernel 4.7 + the latest updates from Debian ‘testing’ repos • the Calamares installer 2.4.4 with added support of installation on 32 and 64 bit UEFI machines. • Sparky Advanced Installer which provides support … Read more
The last upgrade of GNOME Flashback Metacity session went fine, but the desktop doesn’t want to start itself. Tested with Lightdm only, as it is the Sparky’s default session manager. You can fix it in few ways: Easy way: Make full system upgrade, then run APTus-> Desktop-> GNOME Flashback to reinstall all the desktop … Read more
Linux kernel 4.8.6 landed in Sparky “unstable” repository. Due to compilation problem in the previous version, this time it is made with additional “CFLAGS -fno-pie” so the kernel works fine on amd64 and 686 compatible machines. The Linux kernel is available in Sparky “unstable” repository, so enabled it to upgrade or make fresh installation: https://wiki.sparkylinux.org/doku.php/repository … Read more