Sparky news 2017/06/29

  An another month almost gone, even haven’t seen when… So what changed? – Lumina Desktop updated up to version 1.3.0; with new ‘lumina-mediaplayer’ tool; fixed reboot and poweroff menu options (during compilation process detected as Linux not Debian, with wrong the 2 commands before) – added new packages to the repos: Opera web browser, … Read more

Sparky news 2017/05/29

  Not much published in May, but changes happen under the hood: – the biggest changes are around Sparky packages – I built many source packages of Sparky tools, and they landed to our repos already. Still some packs missing, but keep building when I can – APTus upgraded up to 0.3.11, which features new … Read more

Sparky news 2017/04/29

April, April… and the April almost gone… What’s up? – rebuilt Calamares to disable LUKS in autopartitioning option – Sparky builds based on upcoming Debian stable Stretch are set now, the live system uses Calamares instead of the old ‘live-installer’ – Budgie Desktop removed from Sparky repos – it is available from Debian repos now … Read more

Sparky news 2017/03/29

The time goes fast and the next month almost gone… So, what changed? – the latest development iso image 4.6-dev20170307 was shipped with Calamares 3.1, with support of installation on 32 and 64 bit BIOS/UEFI machines – some Sparky packages have been updated to version 4~YYYYMMDD and landed in Sparky’s “stable” repository, to be ready … Read more

Sparky news 2017/02/28

  I heard that the community portals are closed 29 and 30 of February this year, so I posted the latest news today 🙂 What happened in the February: – built and added meta packages of GameOver, Multimedia and Rescue editions, so you can easily install the tools on the top of your Sparky installation … Read more