14 DAY TRIAL // The team at Sparky Linux has just announced that the May snapshot is now live and users can download the 2020.05 build based on Debian testing “Bullseye.”
The new release obviously comes with a series of important change and one of the most notable is the upgrade to Linux kernel 5.6.7. The Sparky unstable repos come with Linux kernel 5.6.10 & 5.7-rc4.
Furthermore, there are improvements for UEFI systems with Secure Boot.
“Added additional support of Sparky installation on UEFI machines with Secure Boot: the live system should be launched with Secure Boot off as before; but after installation the Secure Boot can be turned on; both installers: Calamares and Sparky’s Advanced provides support of such installation,” the dev team explains in a changelog (which you can also find embedded below).
There are obviously several other fixes, including for Xfce, as well as new packages for all ISO images, like pulseaudio-module-bluetooth and fuse3 instead of fuse.
App updates
App updates have also been included, so the new snapshot comes with LibreOffice 6.4.1.2, Firefox 75, Thunderbird 68.7.0, and Python 3.8 out of the box.
Another notable change concerns package list updating, with the team explaining the following:
“[We] disabled package list updating, during installing Sparky via Calamares; even you install Sparky with active internet connection, the Debian or Sparky server can be temporary off, so it could stop the installation.”
As usual, you can easily upgrade your system from the Sparky Upgrade GUI or just using the following command:
sparky-upgrade
sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade