Sparky iso images of both lines stable and rolling have been updated and rebuild again. This is a minor but important update which provides fixed chown and chmod of /etc/shadow which makes some problems after installing Sparky on a hard drive; the wrong settings been made via sparkybackup tool during a new iso building process … Read more
Sparky iso images of both lines stable and rolling have been rebuild and updated. This is a minor but important update which provides new settings of Sparky repositories. No system reinstallation is required of existing Sparky installations, simply make full system upgrade: sudo apt update sudo apt install sparky-apt sudo apt update sudo apt full-upgrade … Read more
New live/install iso images of SparkyLinux 4.8 “Tyche” are out. Sparky 4 is based on Debian stable line “Stretch” and built around the Openbox window manager. Sparky 4.8 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 install the … Read more
There is a new, testing live/install iso image of SparkyLinux 4.8 RC “Tyche” available to download. Sparky 4 is based on Debian stable line “Stretch”. Sparky 4.8 RC is a release candidate to upcoming next 4.8 stable release. Changes between 4.7 and 4.8 RC: – full system upgrade from Debian stable repos as of April … Read more
There is an update of SparkyLinux stable line 4.6.1-STB “Tyche”. This is Sparky edition based on Debian stable 9 “Stretch”. New live/install media features fixes of 3 issues found in the 4.6 release: 1. system installed via Calamares sets wrong chmod 777 of the root directory “/”, (should be 755); it is NOT Calamares related … Read more