The Trinity Desktop Environment is available to install for Sparky users now. From Wikipedia: The Trinity Desktop Environment project (TDE) is a fork of KDE 3.5, organised and led by Timothy Pearson, who had coordinated Kubuntu remixes featuring KDE 3.5, after Kubuntu switched to KDE 4. This project aims to release continuing bug fixes, additional … Read more
There are three SparkyLinux 4.3 special editions available now: GameOver, Rescue and Multimedia. This release is based on SparkyLinux 4.3 and is fully compatible with Debian testing “Stretch”. “GameOver” Edition features LXDE desktop, a very large number of preinstalled games, useful tools and scripts. It’s targeted to gamers. SparkyLinux “Rescue” Edition is an operating system … Read more
New, updated iso images of SparkyLinux 4.3 “Tyche” are available 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 version 4.2 and 4.3: – full system upgrade as of April 24, 2016 – Linux kernel … Read more
There is some changes in the Sparky’s default upgrade tool Sparky APTus Upgrade (aka System Upgrade) 0.1.23, such as: – added ‘–no-install-recommends’ option (it is not the default) to avoid installation extra packages which are not dependencies to the existing ones, but they are recommended and are installed as default. Using the new option, … Read more
Sparky 4.3 MinimalISO short introduction of the upcoming update of next iso images. Used open-source tools to make the presentation: – Gscreenshot – lightweight screenshot tool – GIMP – raster graphics editor – Audacity – audio editor – OpenShot – video editor Used audio track “Peace Within” by Peter Rudenko opsound.org/artist/peterrudenko/ which was released under … Read more