This is a minor update of Sparky of the oldstable line 6.7.1 “Po Tolo” targeted to the single board mini computers Raspberry Pi. It fixes one issue which breaks the Openbox desktop settings in both 6.7 armhf and 6.7-RC1 arm64 images The second, important change is that the arm64 (aarch64) images have been fully tested … Read more
The 8th monthly Sparky project and donate report of the 2023: – Linux kernel updated up to 6.5.0, 6.1.50-LTS, 5.15.129-LTS – Sparky packages of Linux kernel moved from ‘unstable’ repo to ‘core’; the ‘unstable’ repo made misunderstanding of many users thinking that the packages of Debian unstable repo are available to all Sparky branches; the … Read more
There is a new application available for Sparkers: Penguins’ eggs What is Penguins’ eggs? penguins-eggs is a console tool, under continuous development, that allows you to remaster your system and redistribute it as live images on usb sticks or via PXE. It supports: Debian, Devuan, Ubuntu and major derivatives: Linuxmint, KDE neon, etc. You can … Read more
There is a new application available for Sparkers: RPi Imager What is RPi Imager? Raspberry Pi imaging utility. Graphical user-interface to write disk images and format SD cards. Raspberry Pi Imager is the quick and easy way to install Raspberry Pi OS and other operating systems to a microSD card, ready to use with your … Read more
Due to misunderstanding of purpose of Sparky ‘unstable’ repo by many Sparky users, specially new ones, the Sparky unstable repo have been deactivated. Sparky unstable repo features Sparky builds of Linux kernel only, but some of you can think that packages from Sparky unstable repo in Sparky stable, oldstable or testing line can damage your … Read more