There is a new, small tool available for Sparkers: Sparky SU. This tool provides Yad based front-end for su (spsu) allowing users to give a password and run graphical commands as root without needing to invoke su in a terminal emulator. It can be used as a Gksu replacement to run any application as root. … Read more
There is a new application available in our repos: Midori 7.0. Midori is a lightweight yet powerful web browser which runs just as well on little embedded computers named for delicious pastries as it does on beefy machines with a core temperature exceeding that of planet earth. And it looks good doing that, too. Oh, … Read more
Many thanks to all of you for supporting Sparky! Your donations help keeping Sparky alive. Don’t forget to send a small tip in December too 🙂 Country Supporter Amount Eric H. € 25 Krzysztof M. PLN 50 Roberto T. € 10 Emil N. PLN 30 John S. € 10 Ruedi L. € 10 Alexander F. … Read more
The 11th monthly report of 2018 of the Sparky project: – Sparky’s Linux kernel updated up to version 4.19.5 & 4.20-rc4 – the ‘etcher-electron’ package changed its name to ‘balena-etcher-electron’; uninstall the old one and install the new one if you use the tool – Advanced Installer fstab config has been improved and the old … Read more
New live/install iso images of SparkyLinux 4.9 “Tyche” are available to download. Sparky 4 is based on Debian stable line “Stretch” and built around the Openbox window manager. Sparky 4.9 offers a fully featured operating system with a lightweight LXDE desktop environment; and minimal images of MinimalGUI (Openbox) and MinimalCLI (text mode) which lets you … Read more