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 some changes in the Sparky’s default upgrade tool Sparky APTus Upgrade (aka System Upgrade) 0.1.23, such as: – added ‘–no-install-recommends’ option (it is not the default) to avoid installation extra packages which are not dependencies to the existing ones, but they are recommended and are installed as default. Using the new option, … Read more
The itch.io desktop’s application (Linux client) landed in SparkyLinux repository. itch.io is a website for users to host, sell and download indie video games. Indie game (Independent video games) are video games created by individuals or small teams generally without video game publisher financial support. The itch.io desktop application can be installed via the package … Read more
Sparky 4.3 MinimalISO short introduction of the upcoming update of next iso images. Used open-source tools to make the presentation: – Gscreenshot – lightweight screenshot tool – GIMP – raster graphics editor – Audacity – audio editor – OpenShot – video editor Used audio track “Peace Within” by Peter Rudenko opsound.org/artist/peterrudenko/ which was released under … Read more
Gscreenshot is a small and nice, Python based tool which lets you make a desktop screenshot. The tool has been originally created by Matej Horvath and discontinued in 2006. I debianized the tool last year, providing version 1.3.1 to a few Sparky spins. Nate Levesque brought the Gscreenshot back to life, upgrading it and releasing … Read more