SparkyLinux 5.5 VM Images Released for VirtualBox and VMware

SparkyLinux project released the latest version based on Debian’s testing branch ‘SparkyLinux 5.5’ in several desktop editions: “There are new live/install ISO images of SparkyLinux 5.5 Nibiru available to download. Sparky 5 follows a rolling release model and is based on Debian testing Buster. Changes: system updated from Debian Testing repos as of September 17, 2018; Linux kernel 4.18.6 (4.18.8- & 4.19-rc4-sparky are available at Sparky unstable repos); the Calamares installer updated up to version 3.2.1; Thunar daemon is deactivated in the MinimalGUI Live (Openbox), due to problem of automounting new partitions created by Calamares; GCC 7 compiler has been removed, the system uses GCC 8 as default; removed packages: libpam-gnome-keyring, vim, imagemagick, systemd-ui, sparky-gexec, xterm (Openbox); also removed from LXQt media: lxtask, leafpad, notepqdqq; added new packages: seahorse, rxvt-unicode (Openbox), qps (LXQt), featherpad (LXQt); the Calamares and Advanced Installer remove Cryptsetup packages now (Calamares removes the packages if the system is not installed on an encrypted disk/partition); a terminal emulator used by Sparky tools has been changed from xterm to rxvt-unicode with pseudotransparency (Openbox)…” You can checkout complete release announcement here.

We are providing you Virtual Machine images for latest version of the SparkyLinux 5.5 for VirtualBox and VMware.

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