This is the first Sparky edition based on Debian stable line 9 codename “Stretch”.

Sparky “Home” edition provides fully featured operating system with two lightweight desktops: LXDE and Xfce.

Sparky MinimalGUI and MinimalCLI lets you install the base system with a minimal set of applications and a desktop of your choice, via the Sparky Advanced Installer.

Changes between version 4.5 and 4.6-STB:
– full system upgrade from Debian 9 stable repos as of June 19, 2017
– Linux kernel 4.9.30 as default (4.10.x and 4.11.x available in Sparky ‘unstable’ repo)
– added new repo (not active): wine-staging.com
– deep cleaning from old packages and files of older releases
– email client Icedove replaced by Thunderbird
– changed http to https protocol of all Sparky services, including repository; updating the ‘sparky-apt’ package fixes it automatically
– new theme “Sparky5” which fixes look of gtk+ based applications
– added two new live system boot options:
1. toram – lets you load the whole live system into RAM memory (if you have enough);
2. text mode – if any problem with normal or failsafe boot, this option runs sparky in text mode and lets you install it using the advanced installer
– new tool for checking and displaying notification on your desktop about available updates
– Calamares 3.1 as default installer