New live/install iso images of special editions of SparkyLinux 5.1 “Nibiru”: GameOver, Multimedia & Rescue are out.

Sparky 5 follows the rolling release model and is based on Debian testing branch “Buster”.

All special editions use Openbox window manager as default.

GameOver Edition features a very large number of preinstalled games, useful tools and scripts. It’s targeted to gamers.

Multimedia Edition features a large set of tools for creating and editing graphics, audio, video and HTML pages.

The live system of Rescue Edition contains a large set of tools for scanning and fixing files, partitions and operating systems installed on hard drives.

Changes between version 5.0 and 5.1:

– full system upgrade from Debian testing repos as of October 2, 2017

– Linux kernel 4.12.13 as default (4.13.4-sparky is available in Sparky ‘unstable’ repo; and Liquorix kernel can be installed via APTus-> Install)

– Calamares 3.1.5 as the default system installer

– a live system’s memtest86+ issue has been fixed

– gcc 6 removed from the live media; the default compiler is gcc 7

– obmenu-generator updated up to version 0.80, what speeded up launching the menu with svg icons

– added new tool for installing a web browser: Sparky Web Browser Installer

No system reinstallation is required. If you have Sparky up to 4.5 or 5.0 installed on your hard drive, simply make full system upgrade:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

If any problem, run:

sudo dpkg --configure -a

sudo apt-get install -f

New iso images of the rolling edition can be downloaded from the download/rolling page.