There is a new version of ‘sparky-polkit’ 0.2.x availabe in Sparky repos. What is Sparky-Polkit? The ‘sparky-polkit’ tool chooses a PolicyKit authentication agent (lxpolkit or gnome policykit), and is targeted to all window managers supported by Sparky. As desktop environments use their own polkits; window managers don’t have and don’t use any as default. How … Read more
Call for testing: a new, testing version of sparky-remsu 0.2.0-beta1 package. The ‘sparky-remsu’ tool provides a centralizied mechanism which gives root/sudo privileges to all Sparky tools which need it. The tool was using before: gksu, lxqt-sudo; and before, before: gksudo and kdesudo. To make it more flexible, depends of many different desktops and its own … Read more
There is a new appliacation available for Sparkers: Webmin. From the project web site: Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any modern web browser, you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more. Webmin removes the need to manually edit Unix configuration files like /etc/passwd, and lets … Read more
There is a new appliacation available for Sparkers: Notepadqq. From the project web site: Notepadqq is designed from developers, for developers. With its more than 100 supported languages, it is the ideal text editor for your daily tasks. The project is completely Free and Open Source. Installation: sudo apt update sudo apt install notepadqq The … Read more
There are new live/install iso images of SparkyLinux 5.3 “Nibiru” available to download. Sparky 5 follows rolling release model and is based on Debian testing “Buster”. Sparky 5.3 provides fully featured operating system with lightweight desktops: LXQt, MATE and Xfce. Sparky MinimalGUI (Openbox) and MinimalCLI (text mode) lets you install the base system with a … Read more