SparkyLinux
SparkyLinux è una distribuzione Linux leggera basata su versioni customizzate di Enlightenment e LXDE, adatta sia ai vecchi che hai nuovi computer. Si basa sul ramo testing di Debian.
Versione 3.4
Questa versione contiene:
- Linux kernel 3.14
- all packages upgraded from Debian testing repositories as of 2014/06/23
- MATE 1.8
- Openbox 3.5.2-6
- Xfce 4.10
- support for installation on machines with EFI
- systemd is the default init system now, see how to change sysvinit to systemd: http://sparkylinux.org/sparky-systemd/
- menu of Openbox (Base Edition) has gotten a few extra scripts
- added new package: hardinfo
- teamviewer has been updated up to version 9
- sparky-live-usb-creator – a tool for creating bootable live USB disks; it’s a GUI frontend for ‘dd’ command
- mintstick – a tool for formating USB disks and creating bootable live USB disks
- steam & steam-launcher 1.0.0.48
- skype 4.3
- seamonkey-2.26.1 – internet suite which consists a web browser SeaMonkey Navigator, an e-mail and news client program Mail & Newsgroups, an HTML editor Composer and an IRC client ChatZilla
- nightingale-1.12.1 – audio player and web browser based on the Songbird media player source code
Risorse
La distribuzione può essere scaricata da:
- 64 bit XFCE (1,4 GB): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sparkylinux/sparkylinux-3.4-x86_64-xfce.iso
- 64 bit base (576MB): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sparkylinux/sparkylinux-3.4-x86_64-base.iso
- 64 bit Mate (1,5GB): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sparkylinux/sparkylinux-3.4-x86_64-mate.iso
Il sito web della distribuzione è: http://sparkylinux.org/
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Conclusioni
La distribuzione ha superato i test su sistemi EFI emulati, pertanto da ora è possibile (anche se non totalmente affidabile) installare su UEFI.