There is a new app available for Sparkers: Sayonara Player. Sayonara is a small, clear and fast audio player for Linux written in C++, supported by the Qt framework. It uses GStreamer as audio backend. Sayonara is open source and uses the GPLv3 license. One of Sayonara’s goals is intuitive and easy usablility. Currently, it … Read more
There is a new, small tool available for KDE & Sparky users: Plasma video wallpaper module. The module lets you use a video file as an animated wallpaper or lock screen. It can be installed from Sparky repository via Synaptic or apt commands: sudo apt update sudo apt install qml-module-org-kde-video-wallpaper Then go to your desktop … Read more
New live/install iso images of special editions of SparkyLinux 5.1 “Nibiru”: GameOver, Multimedia & Rescue are out. Sparky 5 follows the rolling release model and is based on Debian testing “Buster”. All special editions use Openbox window manager as default. GameOver Edition features a very large number of preinstalled games, useful tools and scripts. It’s … Read more
What is Patreon? From Wikipedia: Patreon (/ˈpeɪtriɒn/) is a membership platform that provides business tools for creators to run a subscription content service, as well as ways for artists to build relationships and provide exclusive experiences to their subscribers, or “patrons”… …It allows artists to receive funding directly from their fans, or patrons, on a … Read more
This is the last SparkyLinux monthly report of the 2017. • Sparky 4.7 armhf for RaspberryPi has been released • Sparky 5.2 with full disk encryption via Calamares has been released • the latest Linux kernel updated up to version 4.14.10 • added new tools to sparky repo: Motionbox, WoeUSB • Desktop Installer has been … Read more