New updated live/install iso images of SparkyLinux 4.4 “Tyche” are available to download now. As before, Sparky “Home” editions provide fully featured operating system based on the Debian ‘testing’, with desktops of your choice: LXDE, LXQt, KDE, MATE and Xfce. Changes between versions 4.3 and 4.4: – full system upgrade as of August 15, 2016 … Read more
There is an update of EFL 1.18.0 ready in Sparky repository now. Due to the Enlightenment’s developers changes, the ‘evas-generic-loaders’, ’emotion-generic-players’ and ‘elementary’ have been merged into the EFL package and they are no available (as separated packages) in Sparky repos any more. There is no changes with installing Enlightenment, so do it as … Read more
A few lines let you know what is going on inside Sparky. If everything goes fine, new live/install iso images of Sparky 4.4 should be ready on the end of the next week. The ‘Calameres’ installer is available in our repository, but is not configured to install the system on UEFI machines yet. An … Read more
The Lumina Desktop Environment is available for Sparkers now. The Lumina Desktop Environment is a lightweight system interface designed for use on any Unix-like operating system. Lumina is based on using plugins, which allows the entire interface to be arranged by each individual user as desired. A system wide default layout is also included, and … Read more
The default Sparky’s backup tool ‘Sparky Backup System’ has been upgraded up to version 20160808 (‘sparky-backup-core’ and ‘sparky-backup-sys’). Sparky Backup System is a tool which lets you backup your installed version of Sparky, including all installed applications, desktops and desktop settings into a single iso image file. But it doesn’t backup your personal files from … Read more