There is the first image of Sparky 4-dev20171023 ARMHF available for testing. The new image is created for a single board mini computer RaspberryPi. From Wikipedia: The Raspberry Pi is a series of small single-board computers developed in the United Kingdom by the Raspberry Pi Foundation to promote the teaching of basic computer science in … Read more
There are new live/install iso images of SparkyLinux 5.1 “Nibiru” available to download. Sparky 5 follows the rolling release model and is based on Debian testing “Buster”. Sparky “Home” edition provides fully featured operating system with lightweight desktops: Xfce, MATE and LXQt. Sparky MinimalGUI (Openbox) and MinimalCLI (text mode) lets you install the base system … Read more
A new application is available for Sparkers: Leo Editor. Leo is a PIM, IDE and outliner that accelerates the work flow of programmers, authors and web designers. Outline nodes may appear in more than one place, allowing multiple organizations of data within a single outline. Installation: sudo apt update sudo apt install leo
There is a minor update of Sparky MinimalGUI and MinimalCLI 4.5.4. Sparky “Full (Home)” editions are installed as they are, with no need of updating or installing extra packages from the repositories. MinimalGUI and MinimalCLI editions are shipped with current versions of packages, but they are current when the iso images were built only. After … Read more
There is a new app available in Sparky repos: pmrp. pmrp (Poor Man’s Radio Player) is an Internet radio player script written in bash. Features : – 350 hand-picked radio stations. – Music, news, talk-shows, interviews, comedy, plays and much much more. – Easy menu system to browse-navigate between different radio stations. – Now playing … Read more