There is a development release of Sparky 4.6 RC STB ready for testing. It’s a final test before releasing the stable version of 4.6 STB. Sparky 4.6-RC STB is based on Debian (still) testing “Stretch” and pre-configured to use upcoming Debian stable Stretch base. Highlights: • upcoming Debian stable Stretch ready • Calamares installer with … Read more
There is a development iso image of Sparky 4.5-dev20161106 MinimalGUI ready for testing. The new dev iso image features: • Linux kernel 4.7 + the latest updates from Debian ‘testing’ repos • the Calamares installer 2.4.4 with added support of installation on 32 and 64 bit UEFI machines. • Sparky Advanced Installer which provides support … Read more
The last upgrade of GNOME Flashback Metacity session went fine, but the desktop doesn’t want to start itself. Tested with Lightdm only, as it is the Sparky’s default session manager. You can fix it in few ways: Easy way: Make full system upgrade, then run APTus-> Desktop-> GNOME Flashback to reinstall all the desktop … Read more
Budgie Desktop 10.2.6 just landed in our repository. If you have an older version installed, simply make system upgrade: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade If you would like to make fresh installations, do: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install budgie-desktop Then reboot and login to the new desktop to take affects.
There is testing iso image of Sparky 4.4-dev20160617 MinimalGUI ready to go. The dev iso image features: • Linux kernel 4.6 + the latest updates from Debian ‘testing’ repos • the Calamares installer which replaced the Live Installer. Calamares is available in the desktop’s Menu-> System-> Sparky Installer (the same name as the Live Installer … Read more