Restricted packages

As you know, it’s not really possible to have support for many devices without non-free drivers. Sparky similar like a couple other Linux distributions features contrib and non-free packages and drivers. In my way, it helps managing the system easily, specially by new Linux users. But… Some people don’t want or don’t like restricted packages … Read more

SparkyLinux 3.2 GameOver is out

SparkyLinux 3.2 “GameOver” is out. It has been built on the top of SparkyLinux 3.2 “Annagerman” and it’s fully compatible with Debian “testing” Jessie. SparkyLinux “GameOver” is a special edition of our distro targeted to game players. “GameOver” 3.2 offers : – access to games compiled for Linux platform – access to “popular” and “modern” … Read more

New Openbox problems

  The last week updates of Openbox up to version 3.5.2-5 can make some problems. It will install ‘openbox-gnome-session’ package as its depends and whole basic GNOME3 environment as well 🙂 If you’d like to put everything back to the prevoius stage, remove extra packages from the system: apt-get remove nautilus openbox-gnome-session gdm3 gnome-bluetooth gnome-control-center … Read more

SparkyLinux 3.2 e17, MATE & CLI is out

  SparkyLinux 3.2 “Annagerman” Enlightenment, MATE & CLI is out. New Live/Install media of SparkyLinux 3.2 e17, MATE and CLI features: – Linux kernel 3.11-2 (3.11.10-1) – all packages have been upgraded from Debian testing repositories as of 2013/12/15 – MATE 1.6 – Enlightenment 0.17.3-2 – PCManFM 1.1.2-1 (e17 desktop) – added support for installation … Read more