The 6th monthly Sparky project and donate report of 2022: – Linux kernel updated up to 5.18.8 & 5.15.51 LTS – Added to repos: NotepadNext text editor, WineZGUI a Zenity based simple GUI for Wine – Created a new community on Mastodon – APTus installs virtualbox-6.1 Oracle deb, instead of Debian Sid debs on Sparky … Read more
There is a new application available for Sparkers: WineZGUI What is WineZGUI? WineZGUI (pronounced Wine-Zee-Goo-Eee) is a wine frontend for playing windows games with wine easily. It is a collection of Bash scripts for Wine Prefix Management and Linux Desktop Integration for easier wine gaming experience using Zenity. It allows quick launching of Direct play … Read more
Dears Friends! There are 10 days left to the end of the month and we have only 31% of donations so far 🙁 We are balancing on a very thin line of profitability of our services. This means that without your help we may soon disappear from the web for good. We are very happy … Read more
Today’s update on Sparky testing (7) of GRUB bootloader provides a notable change – it does not list other operating systems on the GRUB menu any more: grub2 (2.06-1) unstable; urgency=medium * Boot menu entries for other operating systems are no longer generated by default. To re-enable this, set GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false in /etc/default/grub. If you have … Read more
There is a new application available for Sparkers: NotepadNext What is NotepadNext? A cross-platform, reimplementation of Notepad++. Notepad Next is yet another text and source code editor. Installation (Sparky 6 & 7 amd64): sudo apt update sudo apt install notepadnext License: GNU GPL 3 Web: github.com/dail8859/NotepadNext