New live/install iso images of SparkyLinux 5.7.1 “Nibiru” are available to download. This is a minor update of live images of Sparky 5 based on Debian testing “Buster”. This update provides: – full disk encrypting via the Calamares installer back – Linux kernel 4.19.28 as default – all packages updated from Debian testing repos as … Read more
Many thanks to all of you for supporting our open-source projects! Your donations help keeping them alive. Don’t forget to send a small tip in the April too, please 🙂 Country Supporter Amount Krzysztof M. PLN 50 Peter E. € 10 Artur K. PLN 55 Edgar H. € 3 Adrian B. $ 1 Gernot P. … Read more
The 3rd monthly report of 2019 of the Sparky project: • Sparky Tube received a few improvements • Advanced Installed has a new option which lets you choose autologin without password (suggested by Elton) • Sparky 5.7 released (LXQt, MinimalGUI/Openbox, MinimalCLI) • Sparky 5.7 Special Editions released (GameOver, Multimedia & Rescue) • Linux kernel updated … Read more
There is a new, small desktop available for Sparkers: Sway What is Sway? Sway (SirCmpwn’s Wayland compositor) is a tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager for X11. It works with your existing i3 configuration and supports most of i3’s features, plus a few extras. This means it is a … Read more
There is a new tool available for Sparkers: mkusb What is mkusb? The mkusb tool was developed to make it simpler and safer to create boot drives with the method to flash or clone an iso image or a compressed image file. It is using dd under the hood.The target is a mass storage device, … Read more