SparkyLinux 3.4 “Annagerman” MATE, Xfce and Base (Openbox) is out. As usually new iso images of SparkyLinux provide a ton of updates, some changes and system improvements, such as: – Linux kernel 3.14 – all packages upgraded from Debian testing repositories as of 2014/06/23 – MATE 1.8 – Openbox 3.5.2-6 – Xfce 4.10 – support … Read more
Out of date! Sparky Mate Edition has been using Mate repository for a while. Now, you can (and should) switch from Mate repo to the Debian’s. All Mate file have been moved to Debian repository so it works fine now. How to do that? 1. Remove Mate repo from sources.list: deb http://repo.mate-desktop.org/archive/1.8/debian/ jessie main 2. … Read more
SparkyLinux 3.4 “Annagerman” LXDE, Razor-Qt and Enlightenment 18 is out. New iso images of SparkyLinux 3.4 provide a ton of updates, some changes and system improvements, such as: – Linux kernel 3.14 – all packages upgraded from Debian testing repositories as of 2014/05/31 – LXDE 0.5.5-6 – Openbox 3.5.2-6 – Razor-Qt 0.5.2-4 – Enlightenment has … Read more
We have two updates of our tools: 1. Sparky-Backup-System 0.1.7 – features the new init system “systemd” which is the default init system for all Sparky versions now. 2. Sparky-Backup-Apps 0.1.4 – fixed Liferea backup bug due to changes with different Liferea locations of configuration files.
Out of date! This is the recommended way to upgrade SparkyLinux Enlightenment desktop from E17 to E18: 1. Add Sparky E18 repository – edit the file ‘sources.list’ (as root): nano /etc/apt/sources.list 2. Change SparkyLinux repository from: deb http://sparkylinux.org/repo testing main to: deb http://sparkylinux.org/repo testing main deb http://sparkylinux.org/repo e18 main 3. Leave Enlightenment desktop, login to … Read more