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
Call for translating & testing: Sparky Backup Sys 20180327. Sparky Backup Sys is a Yad based GUI to Sparky Backup Core tool. The Sparky Backup Core provides scripts to make a bootable iso image of your Sparky installation and the Advanced Installer as well. All Sparky Backup related tools have been localized (English and Polish … Read more
New live/install iso images of special editions of SparkyLinux 5.3 “Nibiru”: GameOver, Multimedia & Rescue are out. Sparky 5 follows the rolling release model and is based on Debian testing branch “Buster”. All special editions use Openbox window manager as default. GameOver Edition features a very large number of preinstalled games, useful tools and scripts. … Read more
There is a new version of ‘sparky-polkit’ 0.2.x availabe in Sparky repos. What is Sparky-Polkit? The ‘sparky-polkit’ tool chooses a PolicyKit authentication agent (lxpolkit or gnome policykit), and is targeted to all window managers supported by Sparky. As desktop environments use their own polkits; window managers don’t have and don’t use any as default. How … Read more
Call for testing: a new, testing version of sparky-remsu 0.2.0-beta1 package. The ‘sparky-remsu’ tool provides a centralizied mechanism which gives root/sudo privileges to all Sparky tools which need it. The tool was using before: gksu, lxqt-sudo; and before, before: gksudo and kdesudo. To make it more flexible, depends of many different desktops and its own … Read more