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SparkyLinux Openbox Changelog

What's new in SparkyLinux Openbox 4.2

Dec 21, 2015
  • full system upgrade from Debian testing repository as of December 15, 2015
  • Linux kernel 4.2.0 (4.2.6)
  • Enlightenment 0.20.0 (0.20.1 is available in our repos)
  • KDE Plasma 5.4.3
  • LXDE 0.99.0-2
  • LXQt 0.10.0-2
  • MATE 1.10.2
  • Openbox 3.6.1-2
  • Xfce 4.12.2
  • Iceweasel 38.2.1esr
  • Icedove 38.4
  • LibreOffice 5.0.4 rc1
  • Wine 1.8 rc3
  • removed KDE/KWin based packages, the system uses Openbox window manager only and applications based on Qt and GTK libs (LXQt edition)
  • a small issue which did not let loading the default Sparky wallpaper has been fixed (KDE 64 bit edition)
  • the live-installer supports auto login via SDDM in the target system (KDE edition)
  • due to removing a dependency from Debian testing repository for ‘mintstick’ tool, it has been replaced by Sparky USB Live Creator, which is a GUI front-end to ‘dd’, and another (new) tool Sparky USB Formatter
  • ‘boot-repair’ tool has been removed from iso images, but it is still available in the Sparky repository and on the iso images of the Sparky Rescue Edition
  • ‘xfce4-mixer plugin’ has been replaced by ‘pulseaudio-plugin’ (Xfce edition)
  • general cleaning and removing obsolete packages
  • localizationing Sparky tools
  • TOR Messenger – a multi messenger (IM), which uses the TOR network as default, is available in Sparky repository now
  • removed all old Sparky wallpapers from the live iso images, and the default wallpapers has been slightly modified, depends of a Sparky edition
  • added small application called “Sparky First Run”
  • added ‘menulibre’ package (Xfce edition)
  • added new tool ‘obmenu-generator’, which can generate a static or dynamic pipe menu and ‘xfdashboard’ tool (Openbox edition)

New in SparkyLinux Openbox 4.0 RC (Apr 4, 2015)

  • massive numbers of updates from Debian testing and SparkyLinux repositories
  • full system rebranding, see HowTo: http://sparkylinux.org/sparky-rebranding/
  • new flat theme “Sparky4″
  • new flat icon set “Ultra-Flat-Icons”
  • wallpaper “Vortex” by LiquidSky64
  • the look of all the system’s elements has been fully integrated
  • many visual improvement
  • Gnome-Alsamixer replaced by Pulse Audio Mixer (LXDE edition)
  • XChat replaced by HexChat
  • Wbar has been removed
  • traditional look of the desktop with one bottom’s panel
  • updated Boot-Repair (available in Live system only)
  • updated Live-Installer
  • the default’s Sparky iso building tool is Sparky Backup System now; it works in a text console or using Yad based GUI – available in our repos
  • many small improvements
  • many improvements and bugs fixing of Sparky apps
  • all the Sparky apps moved to SourceForge git repos