Sparky news 2022/05

The 5th monthly Sparky project and donate report of 2022: – Linux kernel updated up to 5.18.1 – Added to repos: Nala, Hypnotix, Bitcoin Core – Sparky 6.3 of the stable line released – ‘firefox-sparky’ & ‘firefox-esr-sparky’ Mozilla build packages moved to Sparky 5 oldstable & Sparky 4 oldoldstable repos too Many thanks to all … Read more

Bitcoin Core

bitcoin core

There is a new application available for Sparkers: Bitcoin Core What is Bitcoin Core? Bitcoin Core connects to the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network to download and fully validate blocks and transactions. It also includes a wallet and graphical user interface, which can be optionally built. Bitcoin Core is the original Bitcoin client and it builds the … Read more

Hypnotix

hypnotix

There is a new application available for Sparkers: Hypnotix What is Hypnotix? Hypnotix is an IPTV streaming application with support for live TV, movies and series. It can support multiple IPTV providers of the following types: M3U URL, Xtream API, Local M3U playlist. Hypnotix does not provide content or TV channels, it is a player … Read more

Sparky 6.3

sparky6 xfce

The 3rd update of Sparky 6 – 6.3 is out. It is a quarterly updated point release of Sparky 6 “Po Tolo” of the stable line. Sparky 6 is based on and fully compatible with Debian 11 “Bullseye”. Changes: – system upgraded from Debian & Sparky stable repos as of May 5, 2022 – PC: … Read more

Nala

nala

There is a new application available for Sparkers: Nala What is Nala? Nala is a front-end for libapt-pkg. Specifically we interface using the python-apt api. Especially for newer users it can be hard to understand what apt is trying to do when installing or upgrading. We aim to solve this by not showing some redundant … Read more

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