SparkyLinux 5.0 VM Images Available for VirtualBox and VMware

SparkyLinux project released the latest version based on Debian’s testing branch ‘SparkyLinux 5.0’ in several desktop editions: “Sparky ‘Home’ edition provides fully featured operating system with lightweight desktops: LXQt, MATE and Xfce. As usually, Sparky MinimalGUI (Openbox) and MinimalCLI (text based) 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 5.0: full system upgraded from Debian Testing repos as of July 14, 2017; Linux kernel 4.11.6 as default (4.12.x is available in Sparky Unstable repo); new theme ‘Sparky5’; new theme of LXQt edition; new default wallpaper created by our community member ‘barti’; new set of wallpapers of the Nature category, with a few nice landscapes from Poland; Calamares 3.1.1 as the default system installer; new tool for checking and displaying notification on your desktop about available updates. Other changes: added new repos (not active): wine-staging.com; 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…” You can checkout complete release announcement here.

We are providing you Virtual Machine images for latest version of the SparkyLinux 5.0 for VirtualBox and VMware.

You can download VDI and VMDK images for VirtualBox & VMware from here.