Sparky 2019.08 - First snapshot in Bullseye series - released

The Sparky Linux team has announced the release of Sparky Linux 2019.08 with code name Po Tolo. This is the first snapshot of Sparky rolling line based on Debian Bullseye. Debian Bullseye is the current testing branch of Debian.

Sparky Linux 2019.08 Preview

What is new in Sparky 2019.08?

In addition to updated packages from Debian Bullseye branch, it includes the following noteworthy changes.

Systemd is updated from Debian “Bullseye” as of 1st August 2019.

GCC 9 is included (Still GCC 8 remains as default C compiler)

Introduces new Sparky6 theme

Fresh Tela icon set

Refined desktop look and feel

Replaced lightdm with sddm for LXQt Edition

Linux Kernel 4.19.37 is included (5.1.21 EOL, 5.2.5 & 5.3-rc2 are available in projects’ repos.

There is no 32-bit flavor

As decided earlier, Sparky Linux 32 bit flavor would not be available for rolling releases. It will support amd64/x86_64 machines only. However, if you are running a 32-bit flavor of Sparky Linux, you can continue to avail updated packages, and it will be fully supported.

LXQt and Xfce Editions

Sparky Linux 2019.08 is available with Xfce and LXQt desktop environments. It also provides Minimal GUI and MinimalCLI alternatives. The installation images can be downloaded from Sparky Linux official download page.

The following section showcases some screenshots captured in Sparky Linux 2019.08 LXQt Edition.

01 Sparky Linux LXQt Desktop 02 About Sparky Linux 03 About LXQt 04 Application Menu 05 PCManFM Qt 06 Midnight Commander 07 Multitasking Overview 08 QTerminal 09 QTerminal Dropdown 10 Firefox Web Browser 11 VLC Media Player 12 QMMP Music Player 13 LibreOffice Impress 14 LXImage 15 Aptus package manager 16 Synaptic Package Manager 17 Bleachbit system cleaner 18 Featherpad 19 Icon Browser 20 Resource usage - top 21 Configuration Center 22 Leave LXQt