I am happy to let you know that our baby SparkyLinux 4.6.1 “Tyche” has been published in Komputer Świat 11/2017. The Komputer Świat is a Polish magazine about computing, and it is 19th anniversary of the magazine. They released two DVD media, one of them is with: Polish operating system SparkyLinux (polski system operacyjny SparkyLinux) … Read more
There is a new version of Exaile 4.0.0-beta2 available for Sparkers. Exaile: Music Player for GTK+ Simple interface. Powerful music management. Smart Playlists. Advanced track tagging. Automatic album art. Lyrics. Streaming Radio. Podcasts. Secondary output device support. Easily extensible with 50+ plugins available. The Exaile was my favorite music player until Debian devs removed it … Read more
There are new live/install iso images of SparkyLinux 5.1 “Nibiru” available to download. Sparky 5 follows the rolling release model and is based on Debian testing “Buster”. Sparky “Home” edition provides fully featured operating system with lightweight desktops: Xfce, MATE and LXQt. Sparky MinimalGUI (Openbox) and MinimalCLI (text mode) lets you install the base system … Read more
There is a new desktop available for Sparkers: Manokwari. Manokwari is a desktop shell for GNOME 3 with Gtk+ and HTML5 frontend. Manokwari is used by BlankOn Linux distribution. Recommended way to install Manokwari Desktop on Sparky host: sudo apt update sudo apt install sparky-desktop-manokwari or via APTus 0.3.x with ‘sparky-desktop’ >= 20170918 Successfully installed … Read more
The latest update has broken deepin desktop, so I updated all deepin related packages after. No luck anyway. The desktop is no longer compatible with Stretch, can be installed on Debian testing or Sid. All changes, tests and fight takes too much time so I decided to remove an installation option of deepin desktop from … Read more