The Calligra suite 2.9.7 is available for Sparkers now. From Wikipedia: Calligra Suite is a graphic art and office suite by KDE split from KOffice in 2010. It is available for desktop PCs, tablet computers, and smartphones. It contains applications for word processing, spreadsheets, presentation, databases, vector graphics, and digital painting. Calligra uses the OpenDocument … Read more
There is an update of Enlightenment 0.21.2 ready in Sparky repository now. Make upgrade as usually: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade If you would like to make fresh installations, run: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install enlightenment The present version of Enlightenment 0.21.2 uses EFL 1.18 and Python-EFL 1.18 (both available in our … Read more
Reported issue: the login screen (lightdm) doesn’t start after the first boot from a hard drive, after installing Sparky. Possible reason: plymouth To temporary handle with that, edit kernel starts options via GRUB. Press ‘e’ key to edit it. Go to the end of the line started with “linux” and delete ‘quiet splash’ options. Than … Read more
New updated live/install iso images of SparkyLinux 4.4 “Tyche” are available to download 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 versions 4.3 and 4.4: – full system upgrade as of August 15, 2016 … Read more
There is an update of EFL 1.18.0 ready in Sparky repository now. Due to the Enlightenment’s developers changes, the ‘evas-generic-loaders’, ’emotion-generic-players’ and ‘elementary’ have been merged into the EFL package and they are no available (as separated packages) in Sparky repos any more. There is no changes with installing Enlightenment, so do it as … Read more