SparkyLinux Gets New Development Cycle Based on Debian GNU/Linux 11 "Bullseye" | Linux Today

SparkyLinux Gets New Development Cycle Based on Debian GNU/Linux 11 “Bullseye”

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Marius Nestor
Aug 7, 2019

Work on the SparkyLinux “Po Tolo” series has started as a semi-rolling release version where users install the operating system once and receive updates forever. The first snapshot, SparkyLinux 2019.08, is now available to download based on the software repositories of Debian GNU/Linux 11 “Bullseye.” SparkyLinux 2019.08 “Po Tolo” is contains an updated system from the Debian Testing repositories as of August 1st, 2019, and comes with the GCC 9 system-wide compiler, though GCC 8 is still used by default. This release is powered by Linux kernel 4.19.37, though Linux kernel 5.2.5 is available on the SparkyLinux unstable repos.

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Marius Nestor

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