SparkyLinux

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SparkyLinux
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SparkyLinux 6.0 "Po Tolo" with Xfce
Developer SparkyLinux team [1]
OS family Linux (Unix-like)
Working stateCurrent
Source model Open source
Initial release5 May 2012;12 years ago (2012-05-05) [2]
Latest release 7.5 [3] / 18 September 2024;5 months ago (18 September 2024)
Available in Multilingual
Update method APT (front-ends available)
Package manager dpkg (front-ends available)
Platforms IA-32, x86-64, ARM
Kernel type Monolithic (Linux)
Userland GNU
Default
user interface 		LXQt, MATE, Xfce and KDE
License Mainly GPL and other free software licenses, minor additions of proprietary
Official website sparkylinux.org

SparkyLinux is a desktop-oriented operating system based on the Debian operating system. The project offers a ready-to-use operating system with various desktops to choose from. [4] SparkyLinux is released 3-4 times per year to provide the latest versions of all applications.

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History

The project was born in October 2011 as an Ubuntu remix with Enlightenment as the default desktop having the name ue17r (Ubuntu Enlightenment17 Remix). After a few months of testing, the base system was changed to Debian and renamed SparkyLinux. [5]

Features

SparkyLinux has two main "flavors": the "stable flavor", which is based on the latest Debian stable, and the “rolling flavor”, which is based on the testing (next stable) branch of Debian and uses a (semi-)rolling-release cycle. Additionally, it includes a collection of tools and scripts to help users with easy administration of the system. [6]

The default desktop environments are LXQt (former LXDE), MATE, Xfce, and KDE, but users can install other desktops via 'Sparky APTus'.

As Sparky ISO image features a few proprietary packages, the 'Sparky APTus' provides a small tool called 'Non-Free Remover' which can easily uninstall all 'contrib' and 'non-free' packages from the system. [7]

Since 2023, the project has offered storage persistence from a utility that writes USB disk images. The feature so far only works on the MinimalGUI version of SparkyLinux. [8]

Special editions

See also

References

  1. ↑ "SparkyLinux Team" . Retrieved 20 August 2021.
  2. ↑ "SparkyLinux 1.0 wersja finalna". 5 May 2012. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
  3. ↑ https://sparkylinux.org/sparky-7-5/.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ↑ "Start [Sparky Wiki]".
  5. ↑ pavroo (13 October 2021). "ue17r". ArchiveOS. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
  6. 1 2 pavroo (18 December 2024). "About". SparkyLinux. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
  7. ↑ pavroo (20 September 2023). "Sparky APTus". SparkyLinux. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
  8. ↑ pavroo (20 January 2023). "Sparky 2023.01 + Persistence". SparkyLinux. Retrieved 2023-02-05.

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