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 4.2

Questa versione contiene (in Inglese):

This is the second update of Live/Install iso images of SparkyLinux 4.x, which provides a some changes and improvements, such as:
– full system upgrade from Debian testing repository as of December 15, 2015
– Linux kernel 4.2.0 (4.2.6)
– Enlightenment 0.20.0 (0.20.1 is available in our repos)
– KDE Plasma 5.4.3
– LXDE 0.99.0-2
– LXQt 0.10.0-2
– MATE 1.10.2
– Openbox 3.6.1-2
– Xfce 4.12.2
– Iceweasel 38.2.1esr
– Icedove 38.4
– LibreOffice 5.0.4 rc1
– Wine 1.8 rc3
– removed KDE/KWin based packages, the system uses Openbox window manager only and applications based on Qt and GTK libs (LXQt edition)
– a small issue which did not let loading the default Sparky wallpaper has been fixed (KDE 64 bit edition)
– the live-installer supports auto login via SDDM in the target system (KDE edition)
– due to removing a dependency from Debian testing repository for ‘mintstick’ tool, it has been replaced by Sparky USB Live Creator, which is a GUI front-end to ‘dd’, and another (new) tool Sparky USB Formatter
– ‘boot-repair’ tool has been removed from iso images, but it is still available in the Sparky repository and on the iso images of the Sparky Rescue Edition
– ‘xfce4-mixer plugin’ has been replaced by ‘pulseaudio-plugin’ (Xfce edition)
– general cleaning and removing obsolete packages
– localizationing Sparky tools
– TOR Messenger – a multi messenger (IM), which uses the TOR network as default, is available in Sparky repository now
– removed all old Sparky wallpapers from the live iso images, and the default wallpapers has been slightly modified, depends of a Sparky edition
– added small application called “Sparky First Run”
– added ‘menulibre’ package (Xfce edition)
– added new tool ‘obmenu-generator’, which can generate a static or dynamic pipe menu and ‘xfdashboard’ tool (Openbox edition)

Risorse

La distribuzione può essere scaricata da:

• 64 bit LDXE (1,5GB): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sparkylinux/sparkylinux-4.2-x86_64-lxde.iso
• 64 bit Mate (1,6GB): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sparkylinux/sparkylinux-4.2-x86_64-mate.iso
• 64 bit XFCE (1,5GB): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sparkylinux/sparkylinux-4.2-x86_64-xfce.iso
• 64 bit KDE (167GB): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sparkylinux/sparkylinux-4.2-x86_64-kde.iso
• 64 bit LXQT (1,3GB): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sparkylinux/sparkylinux-4.2-x86_64-lxqt.iso

Il sito web della distribuzione è: http://sparkylinux.org/

Screenshot

SparkyLinux 4.2 KDE

Conclusioni

Gli utenti con Enlightenment devono guardare la procedura per passare da E19 a E20.