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
New Sparky named repositories have been created, alongside to the present ones: • oldstable-> tyche • stable-> nibiru • testing-> potolo What is it for? Developing and providing packages to Sparky based on Debian testing only was quite easy, it was just one branch, developed as a rolling release. No changes in repos required then. … Read more
There is a new tool available for Sparkers: CudaText What is CudaText? CudaText is a free, open-source, cross-platform (runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS or FreeBSD) code editor written in Lazarus. It evolved from the previous editor named SynWrite which is no longer developed. It is extensible by Python add-ons (plugins, linters, code tree parsers, … Read more
Sparky live/install media of the ‘oldstable’ line updated up to version 4.12. Sparky 4 “Tyche” is based on the Debian 9 oldstable “Stretch”. Changes: • all packages updated as of March 11, 2020 • reconfigured Sparky repositoy to the present one • added a new Sparky public key System reinstallation is not required, make full … Read more