I have upgraded all Sparky editions on my machine this week. All of them went well, but ‘systemd’ has been installed automatically. It’s time to switch from ‘sysvinit’ to ‘systemd’ now. ‘sysvinit’ is an older version of init system used in Debian based systems. From Wikipedia: ‘init (short for initialization) is the first process started … Read more
Out of date! The latest Sparky MATE edition has been shipped with MATE 1.6. If you’d like to upgrade it up to the newest version, simply follow a few steps. Edit the repository list (as root): su nano /etc/apt/sources.list Change the line below from: deb http://repo.mate-desktop.org/debian jessie main to: deb http://repo.mate-desktop.org/archive/1.8/debian/ jessie main Refresh the … Read more
The second testing iso image of SparkyLinux 3.3.2-test2 Base Edition is out. The last week brought some solutions for bugs which have been found in the previous release of 3.3.2-test1. We have found a solution after a set of tests we made in a virtual environment. The present version of the installer got bugs … Read more
The first testing iso image of SparkyLinux 3.3.2-test1 Base Edition is ready to go. The release features the system installer with EFI support for 64 bit machines. As I said before, I can’t test it on a physical machine with EFI, because I don’t have any. I have tested it on VirtualBox with EFI … Read more
SparkyLinux has been selected to be on the ballot for the April SourceForge project of the Month. This vote will be conducted on SourceForge, and will run until April 4th. Anyone with a SourceForge account is eligible to vote. The project of the month gets listed at the top of the front page of the … Read more