Sparky news 2018/04

The 4rd monthly report of 2018 of Sparky project: – new iso images gotten localization to be chosen from boot list – implemented full disk encryption to upcoming Sparky 4.8 of the stable line – APTus 0.4.0 reconfigured and enlarged of new options of installing some popular application – sparky-xterm 0.2.0 uses now transparency tilda … Read more

Future direction of Sparky

It took really long, but finally I made my mind about the future of Sparky. Don’t think it showed up suddenly, yesterday or so, not really. To make this decision, I spoke with our community members via community sites, forums, made a few polls, and individual talks as well. I made many, many tests, checking … Read more

Sparky news 2018/03

The 3rd monthly report of 2018: – added new packages to repos: bleachbit, notepadqq, webmin, falkon – sparky 5.3 & 5.3 Special Editions been released – added German locales to 8 sparky tools, thank’s to Detlef – changes in the sparky advanced installer: ∘ changed the first window to let you quit and update the … Read more

Sparky news 2018/02

This is the second monthly report of 2018: • added new packages to repos: Min web browser, Debian kernel installer (a part of APTus), Sparky CA, RSS Guard • sparky’s Linux kernel updated up to version 4.15.7 • built and installed the Graphene Desktop; it is not compatible with Sparky4/Debian Stretch, but is compatible with … Read more

Sparky news 2018/01

The first monthly report of 2018: • ddm and lightdm-manager removed from sparky repos • aptus extra updated adding new apps which have been already added to sparky repos • removed all deepin desktop related packages and repo • added new packages to repos: Sayonara Player, Plasma wideo wallpaper module • Sparky 5.2 Special editions … Read more