There is a new tool available for Sparkers: Delta Chat Desktop. What is Delta Chat? Delta Chat is like Telegram or Whatsapp but without the tracking or central control. Delta Chat does not need your phone number… Delta Chat doesn’t have their own servers but uses the most massive and diverse open messaging system ever: … Read more
Call for testers! It is a development release of Sparky which is based on Debian testing “Bullseye”. Goals: • added support of installation Sparky on UEFI machines with Secure Boot; the live system should be booted with Secure Boot off; after installation the Secure Boot can be turned on • both installers: Calamares and Sparky’s … Read more
There are new tools available for Sparkers: Picom & Sparky Picom Manager. What is Picom? Picom is a standalone compositor for Xorg, suitable for use with window managers that do not provide compositing. Picom is a fork of compton, which is a fork of xcompmgr-dana, which in turn is a fork of xcompmgr. Installation: sudo … Read more
A quarterly update point release of live/install media of Sparky 5.11 “Nibiru” of the stable line is out. This is a release based on Debian 10 “Buster”. Changes: – the base system upgraded from Debian stable repos as of March 1, 2020 – Linux kernel 4.19.98 LTS (PC) – Linux kernel 4.19.97 LTS (ARMHF) – … Read more
There is a tool available for Sparkers, which lets you make full system upgrade in a text mode via just one command: Sparky Upgrade. The tool was introduced in Sparky APTus Upgrade 0.3.15. The Sparky APTus Upgrade offers a GUI to make your system upgrade, but if you prefer a text based tool, the Sparky … Read more