SparkyLinux è una distribuzione GNU/Linux basata sul sistema operativo Debian GNU/Linux. Sparky è un sistema operativo veloce, leggero e completamente personalizzabile che offre diverse versioni per diversi casi d'uso Sparky supporta circa 20 ambienti desktop e gestori di finestre offrendoti libertà di scelta, tenendo presente che il tuo computer è fatto per lavorare, divertirsi, divertirsi, restare in contatto con gli amici e molte, molte altre cose.
There are new iso images of Sparky 2023.07 Special Editions out there: GameOver, Multimedia and Rescue.
The March update of Sparky Special Edition iso images features Linux kernel 6.3.7, updated packages from Debian and Sparky testing repos as of July 22, 2023, and most changes introduced at the 2023.07 release.
There is a new application available for Sparkers: Teams for Linux
What is Teams for Linux?
Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux using Electron. It uses the Web App and wraps it as a standalone application using Electron. The official client for Linux from Microsoft is retired by the end of 2022 and is replaced with PWA.
Installation (Sparky 7 & 8 amd64/arm64/armhf):
sudo apt update
sudo apt install teams-for-linux
License: GNU GPLv3
Web: github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux
There is an update of Sparky ISO images of the stable line 7.0.1 out there.
This is a minor update, it mainly fixed an issue of the live config, which did not let you launch password reqiured application without password in live session, such as: Calamares, APTus, GParted, Gufw, etc.
Now, the apps don’t need a password to be launched in live session (excluding MinimalGUI i686).
As usually, all packages have been upgraded from Debian and Sparky stable repos, as of June 26, 2023, so all updates of Debian 12.1 are included.
No reinstallation is required if you have Sparky 7 installed, simply keep Sparky up to date.
The new iso images only fix the live session issue.
The 7th monthly Sparky project and donate report of the 2023:
– Linux kernel updated up to 6.4.7 & 6.1.42-LTS & 5.15.123-LTS
– Sparky 7 APTus: changed Trinity desktop repo from bookworm testing to stable
– Sparky 8 APTus: changed Trinity desktop repo from bookworm testing to trixie testing
– Sparky 7.0 i686 MinimalGUI ISO released
– Sparky 2023.07 & Special Editions of the semi-rolling released
– Openbox wm-logout: fixed logout option; added LockScreen option
– added to repos: teams-for-linux
– live media of the stable line updated up to 7.0.1
Many thanks to all of you for supporting our open-source projects. Your donations help keeping them and us alive.
Don’t forget to send a small tip in August too, please.
We thank all of you, who, after our requests, decided to unblock ads on our pages, these small revenues help us maintain our online services. Unfortunately, most of you are still block our ads, making our income smaller then could be. That’s why your donations are so important to us, so we thank you with all our hearts.
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Due to misunderstanding of purpose of Sparky ‘unstable’ repo by many Sparky users, specially new ones, the Sparky unstable repo have been deactivated.
Sparky unstable repo features Sparky builds of Linux kernel only, but some of you can think that packages from Sparky unstable repo in Sparky stable, oldstable or testing line can damage your systems. I already received a few messages about that.
They can’t, cause there are only kernel packages only, as I said before…
Anyway, the Sparky kernel related packages moved to Sparky ‘core’ repo now.
Update of ‘sparky-apt-unstable’ 20230802 package disables the unstable repo.
You can also safely uninstall the ‘sparky-apt-unstable’ package.
Sparky APTus 20230802 of the Sparky 6,7 and 8 does not reconfigure the unstable repo during Sparky’s Linux kernel installation any more.
There is a new application available for Sparkers: RPi Imager
What is RPi Imager?
Raspberry Pi imaging utility. Graphical user-interface to write disk images and format SD cards. Raspberry Pi Imager is the quick and easy way to install Raspberry Pi OS and other operating systems to a microSD card, ready to use with your Raspberry Pi.
It lets you install Sparky armhf and arm64 image on a SD card via custom image option.
Installation (Sparky 6, 7 & 8):
sudo apt update
sudo apt install rpi-imager
License: Apache License version 2.0
Web: github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-imager
There is a new application available for Sparkers: Penguins’ eggs
What is Penguins’ eggs?
penguins-eggs is a console tool, under continuous development, that allows you to remaster your system and redistribute it as live images on usb sticks or via PXE. It supports: Debian, Devuan, Ubuntu and major derivatives: Linuxmint, KDE neon, etc. You can edit derivatives.yaml to easily add more. Supports: Arch Linux, EndeavourOS, Manjaro and RebornOS. eggs is written mostly in typescript and ideally can be used with different Linux distributions.
Installation (Sparky 7 & 8 amd64):
sudo apt update
sudo apt install eggs
License: MIT or GPL Version 2 licenses.
Web: github.com/pieroproietti/penguins-eggs
The 8th monthly Sparky project and donate report of the 2023:
– Linux kernel updated up to 6.5.0, 6.1.50-LTS, 5.15.129-LTS
– Sparky packages of Linux kernel moved from ‘unstable’ repo to ‘core’; the ‘unstable’ repo made misunderstanding of many users thinking that the packages of Debian unstable repo are available to all Sparky branches; the fact was that the Sparky unstable repos offered Sparky build of Linux kernels only; anyway, ‘sparky-apt-unstable’ package can be safetly uninstalled from your systems now
– added to Sparky 6, 7, and 8 repos: rpi-imager, eggs (penguins eggs)
Many thanks to all of you for supporting all our open-source projects. Your donations help keeping them and us alive.
Don’t forget to send a small tip in September too, please.
Important!
Make sure, that Sparky (semi-)rolling is based on Debian TESTING, not stable, so issues, bugs and other problems DO happen sometimes!
Due to changes in Debian and Sparky testing repos, some applications CAN NOT be installed via Sparky APTus, even they are listed in the APTus.
If you are not happy with that, switch to Sparky STABLE, or do something else, but DO NOT complain that on other services or forums. If you like Sparky, simply report your issue at Sparky forums, please.
Dear Sparkers, Linuxiarze, ArchiveOS, and our other services users – our statistics show that of those who block our ads, only 8% have unblocked them, for which we thank you very much; it means that 92% of rest of you are still blocking them, which is, why we need your donations so much and for which we thank you from all over hearts.
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* Keep in mind that some amounts coming to us will be reduced by commissions for online payment services. Only direct sending donations to our bank account will be credited in full.
* Miej na uwadze, że kwota, którą przekażesz nam poprzez system płatności on-line zostanie pomniejszona o prowizję dla pośrednika. W całości wpłynie tylko ta, która zostanie przesłana bezpośrednio na nasze konto bankowe.
This is a minor update of Sparky of the oldstable line 6.7.1 “Po Tolo” targeted to the single board mini computers Raspberry Pi.
It fixes one issue which breaks the Openbox desktop settings in both 6.7 armhf and 6.7-RC1 arm64 images
The second, important change is that the arm64 (aarch64) images have been fully tested at last on a real machine, fixed what should be, and published as a stable (oldstable now) release.
If network doesn’t start automatically (arm64 CLI) start and enable it as follow: sudo systemctl start NetworkManager
sudo systemctl enable NetworkManager
This is the first update of Sparky 7 – 7.1 “Orion Belt”.
It is a quarterly updated point release of Sparky 7 “Orion Belt” of the stable line. Sparky 7 is based on and fully compatible with Debian 12 “Bookworm”.
Changes:
– all packages updated from Debian and Sparky stable repos as of September 12, 2023
– Linux kernel 6.1.52 (6.5.3-sparky & 5.15.131-LTS-sparky in sparky repos)
– LibreOffice 7.4.7
– Calamares 3.2.61
– KDE Plasma 5.27.5
– LXQt 1.2.0
– MATE 1.26
– Xfce 4.18
– Openbox 3.6.1
– firefox 102.15.0esr (117.0.1-sparky in sparky repos)
– thunderbird 102.15.0
– vlc 3.0.18
– exaile 4.1.3
– removed sparky unstable repo (sparky’s linux kernel is placed in ‘core’ repo now)
– added rpi-imager to all iso images to let you easy manage RPi images
– Openbox: added gnote and parcellite
– MATE: added gnote
– LXQt: added noblenote
– ARM images 7.x are not ready yet
Sparky 7 “Orion Belt” is available in the following versions:
– amd64 BIOS/UEFI+Secure Boot: Xfce, LXQt, MATE, KDE Plasma, MinimalGUI (Openbox) & MinimalCLI (text mode)
– i686 non-pae BIOS/UEFI (Legacy): MinimalGUI (Openbox) & MinimalCLI (text mode)
Make sure that the ‘os-prober’ will be not executed to detect other bootable partitions as default, but Sparky provides a GRUB option to detect other OSes anyway.
But, a next updating of GRUB packages override the option.
To fix that manually, add the line: GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false
on the end of the file (as root): /etc/default/grub
Then update grub: sudo update-grub
live user pasword: live
If you have Sparky 7.0 installed – simply keep it up to date. No need to reinstall your OS.
New iso images of Sparky 7 “Orion Belt” can be downloaded from the download/stable page
There are new iso images of Sparky 2023.07 Special Editions out there: GameOver, Multimedia and Rescue.
The March update of Sparky Special Edition iso images features Linux kernel 6.3.7, updated packages from Debian and Sparky testing repos as of July 22, 2023, and most changes introduced at the 2023.07 release.
There is a new application available for Sparkers: Teams for Linux
What is Teams for Linux?
Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux using Electron. It uses the Web App and wraps it as a standalone application using Electron. The official client for Linux from Microsoft is retired by the end of 2022 and is replaced with PWA.
Installation (Sparky 7 & 8 amd64/arm64/armhf):
sudo apt update
sudo apt install teams-for-linux
License: GNU GPLv3
Web: github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux
