I just moved the latest Firefox 48.0-2 to Sparky repos. Unfortunately it makes an issue with opening some web pages, such as: Facebook, Google+, etc. The error message is: NS_ERROR_NET_INADEQUATE_SECURITY and is reported already: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=833719 To fix the problem, upgrade the ‘libnss3’ package to version 3.26-1 from ‘Sid’ repos.
There is a new desktop available for Sparkers now: CDE. From Wikipedia: The Common Desktop Environment (CDE) is a desktop environment for Unix and OpenVMS, based on the Motif widget toolkit. It was part of the UNIX98 Workstation Product Standard, and was long the “classic” Unix desktop associated with commercial Unix workstations. After a long … Read more
Thunderbird – the email client is available for sparkers now. Sparky is shipped with the Icedove email client as default – Debian’s rebranded Thunderbird. If you do not like/want/etc. Icedove – the Thunderbird can be installed from our repository. Check do you have installed ‘hunspell-en-us’ package, before installing Thunderbird: sudo apt-get update apt-cache policy … Read more
There is an update of iso images of SparkyLinux 4.4 special editions available now: GameOver, Rescue and Multimedia. This release is based on SparkyLinux 4.4 and is fully compatible with Debian testing “Stretch”. “GameOver” Edition features LXDE desktop, a very large number of preinstalled games and useful tools. It’s targeted to gamers. SparkyLinux “Rescue” Edition … Read more
Enventor 1.0.0 landed in Sparky repository. 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. It is a visual EDC editor with real-time preview of the Edje file. Does syntax highlighting, … Read more