SparkyLinux 2025.12 “Tiamat” Released with Debian Forky Base, Linux Kernel 6.17

SparkyLinux 2025.12 “Tiamat” Released with Debian Forky Base, Linux Kernel 6.17

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Marcus Nestor
Jan 2, 2026

Based on the Debian Testing/Forky repositories as of December 14th, 2025, SparkyLinux 2025.12 ships with Linux 6.17.11 as the default kernel offering, as well as support for the recently released Linux 6.18 kernel series, which can be installed from the SparkyLinux software repositories, along with LTS kernels like Linux 6.12 and 6.6.

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Marcus Nestor

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