Sparky 7.2 “Orion Belt” is out. It is a quarterly updated point release of Sparky 7 “Orion Belt” of the stable line. Sparky 7 is based on and fully compatible with Debian 12 “Bookworm”. Changes: – all packages updated from Debian and Sparky stable repos as of December 5, 2023 – Linux kernel PC: 6.1.55 … Read more
The 11th monthly Sparky project and donate report of the 2023: – Linux kernel updated up to 6.6.3 & 6.1.64-LTS & 5.15.140-LTS – added to repos: WhatsApp for Linux – sparky-backlight upgraded up to 0.2.0 – Midori web browser 11, based on Firefox, and under new ownership, landed in Sparky stable & testing repos (amd64 … Read more
Sparky Backlight has been upgraded up to v0.2.0. What is Sparky Backlight? Sparky Backlight is a small tool which lets you change the desktop brightness via the panel’s tray icon. The tool is targeted to small window managers such as JWM or Openbox, but can be used on any desktop. Changes – uses xrandr instead … Read more
This is the first release of Sparky 7.1 RC1 “Orion Belt” targeted to the single board mini computers Raspberry Pi. Changes: – based on Debian 12 “Bookworm” – added packages: exaile, radiostation, libreoffice, rpi-imager – jgmenu replaced openbox-menu – added pcmanfm daemon to openbox autostart, which lets you automount external drives now ARM user:password – … Read more
The 10th monthly Sparky project and donate report of the 2023: – Linux kernel updated up to 6.6.0 & 6.1.60-LTS & 5.15.137-LTS – added to repos: spectrum audio player – Sparky 2023.10 & 2023.10 Special Editions of the rolling line released Sparky 7 ARMHF & ARM64 for RaspberryPi single board computers is on the way. … Read more