There are new tools available for Sparkers: Picom & Sparky Picom Manager. What is Picom? Picom is a standalone compositor for Xorg, suitable for use with window managers that do not provide compositing. Picom is a fork of compton, which is a fork of xcompmgr-dana, which in turn is a fork of xcompmgr. Installation: sudo … Read more
A quarterly update point release of live/install media of Sparky 5.11 “Nibiru” of the stable line is out. This is a release based on Debian 10 “Buster”. Changes: – the base system upgraded from Debian stable repos as of March 1, 2020 – Linux kernel 4.19.98 LTS (PC) – Linux kernel 4.19.97 LTS (ARMHF) – … Read more
There is a tool available for Sparkers, which lets you make full system upgrade in a text mode via just one command: Sparky Upgrade. The tool was introduced in Sparky APTus Upgrade 0.3.15. The Sparky APTus Upgrade offers a GUI to make your system upgrade, but if you prefer a text based tool, the Sparky … Read more
The 3rd monthly #stayhome report of 2020 of the Sparky project: • Linux kernel updated up to version 5.6.0 • ChourS2008 translated a few Sparky wiki pages to Russian, thanks a lot • Nemoman keep translating Sparky wiki pages to Hungarian, thanks a lot • I keep translating wiki pages to Polish as well • … Read more
New iso images of Sparky 2020.03.1 of the (semi-)rolling line have been generated. This is a minor update of the live/install media which provides: • fixed issue which doesn’t let you boot Sparky 2020.03 copied to an USB stick • Sparky repository changed to the named “potolo” (“testing” works as before) • all packages updated … Read more