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Sparky news 2026/03

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Apr 02, 2026

Quoting: Sparky news 2026/03 - SparkyLinux —

The 3rd monthly Sparky project and donate report of the 2026:

– Linux kernel updated up to 6.19.10, 6.18.20-LTS, 6.12.79-LTS – added to repos: Electron-Mail, Opera GX – the CLI sparky-installer got an option to install 32 grub-efi on 64bit machines; sparky testing (9) only – Sparky 2026.03 & Special Editions of the testing/rolling line released – according of change the nitrogen wallpaper tool to feh in sparkylinux testing, as I mentioned before, the change will be provided to the next ISO 2026.06 MinimalGUI and Rescue Edition; anyway, uploaded to repos a new, small tool, which lets you change your wallpaper in most, small window manager, called sparky-feh

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