The Sparky Linux development team has released a new snapshot of the distribution. The new version uses it as its testing basis Debian (Bullseye) and brings updates on too many packages.
The development team reports:
The Sparky 2020.02 version "Po Tolo" has just been released. It is a (semi-) rolling distribution, based on the trial version of Debian 'Bullseye'
Changes:
Upgraded system to Debian Testing 'Bullseye' with repos from February 9, 2020. Calamares installer 3.2.18, Linux Kernel 5.4.13 by default (5.5.2 & 5.6-rc1 in Sparky unstable repos) Firefox 72.0.2, Thunderbird 68.4.2 .6.4.0, LibreOffice 3.0.8.VLC 4.0.2, exaile XNUMX, etc.
A new Sparky public key has been added. ”
The announcement of the new version states that the Calamares installer may fail in some cases:
“The installer Squid fails if you install Sparky in full auto mode in full auto mode with full disk encryption and a swap partition, it works without any problems without swap partition ”.
The distribution is ideal even for those who have never had contact with it Linux. It has many extra tools for system management but also a very easy interface (UI) for installing or upgrading applications.
sparkylinux-2020.02-x86_64-xfce.iso (1,259MB, SHA512, signature),
sparkylinux-2020.02-x86_64-lxqt.iso (1,371MB, SHA512, signature),
sparkylinux-2020.02-x86_64-mate.iso (1,606MB, SHA512, signature).
