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Wednesday, November 27, 2013

I'm trying out SparkyLinux, it's based on Debian Testing





 








I'm trying out SparkyLinux - based on Debian Linux. See the ScreenShots above, of my first run of sparkylinux-3.1-i486-e17, in VirtualBox. I liked how the E17 - Enlightenment Desktop works. There was an error. But, it was able to auto recover. I imagine, this is because I was running it in a VM and not Real Hardware. And it is easy on the System Resources. I ran it in a Single Core, VM. With 768mb of ram and 64mb of Video Memory. I'll try it out with Mate Desktop, later and the Gave Over version, too. Here's the info, from their Site...

Don

About SparkyLinux


SparkyLinux is a lightweight, fast and simple Linux distribution disigned for both old and new computers featuring customized Enlightenment and LXDE desktops. It has been built on the “testing” branch of Debian GNU/Linux.
Available for i486 and x86_64 machines.
Main features:
- Debian testing based
- rolling release
- lightweight, fast & simple
- main edition – lightweight & fast LXDE desktop
- Enlightenment – lightweight and beautiful
- ultra light edition with Openbox and JWM desktops (Ultra Edition)
- special gaming edition: GameOver
- MATE Edition with GNOME 2 fork desktop
- Razor-Qt Edition with Qt based desktop
- CLI Edition for building own customized desktop
- most wireless and mobile network cards supported
- set of selected applications, multimedia codecs and plugins
- easy hard drive / USB installation


Screenshots

Videos


Read More...
http://sparkylinux.org/


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