The SparkyLinux team has released SparkyLinux 5.9 Nibiru, an updated snapshot in projects 5.x series. This release is based on Debian 10 Buster and all the packages have been updated from the Debian repos as of 4th October 2019.

Sparky Linux Preview

As a quarterly update, there is nothing much to yell about Sparky’s 5.9 release. The noteworthy improvements are summarized below.

  • Linux Kernel 4.19.67 LTS
  • Improvement to the Sparky forums and official website. It is more mobile-friendly now.
  • Hungarian translation is finished for Sparky tools. Some of them are still not available in official repositories, however, they will be added shortly.

Sparky 5 is available in the following flavors:

  • amd64 & i686: LXQt, Xfce, MinimalGUI (Openbox) & MinimalCLI (text mode)
  • armhf: Openbox & CLI (text mode)

Also, read Sparky 5.9 release announcement in Sparky Website.

Sparky 2019.08 LXQt screenshots

01 Sparky Linux LXQt Desktop01 Sparky Linux LXQt Desktop02 About Sparky Linux02 About Sparky Linux03 About LXQt03 About LXQt04 Application Menu04 Application Menu05 PCManFM Qt05 PCManFM Qt06 Midnight Commander06 Midnight Commander07 Multitasking Overview07 Multitasking Overview08 QTerminal08 QTerminal09 QTerminal Dropdown09 QTerminal Dropdown10 Firefox Web Browser10 Firefox Web Browser11 VLC Media Player11 VLC Media Player12 QMMP Music Player12 QMMP Music Player13 LibreOffice Impress13 LibreOffice Impress14 LXImage14 LXImage15 Aptus package manager15 Aptus package manager16 Synaptic Package Manager16 Synaptic Package Manager17 Bleachbit system cleaner17 Bleachbit system cleaner18 Featherpad18 Featherpad19 Icon Browser19 Icon Browser20 Resource usage - top20 Resource usage - top21 Configuration Center21 Configuration Center22 Leave LXQt22 Leave LXQt