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Title: What are the main differences between Sparky stable and Debian Stable+Backports
Post by: giulinideon on January 06, 2019, 06:18:10 PM

Hi guys, how are you ?

First of all, thank you for your job on SparkyLinux.

I have used Debian Stable + Backports in the past to get a mix of stability and "up-to-date" packages for my desktop needs.

What does sparky linux offer for users of his stable releases that i can't get with debian +backports ?

Bonus:

What does sparky linux rolling release have over the normal debian testing ? :)

Thanks.

Title: Re: What are the main differences between Sparky stable and Debian Stable+Backports
Post by: paxmark1 on January 06, 2019, 11:30:14 PM

I came because it had good LXQT support ( just prior to Debians putting it in) and hey, all the non-free is installed.

1. Different installers. Sparky had Calmares as first option and a remastersys
https://calamares.io/about/
https://sparkylinux.org/wiki/doku.php/advanced_installer

2. All non-free components are readily available at install, simplifies wifi for some, etc. There is the option to not install. And if you look hard enough you can find the mini-isos from Debian that have the non-free components for testing and stable.

3. The aptus suite. I'm a cli guy, but it is a fairly well crafted "swiss army knife" of all things upgrading. Search the wiki for "aptus"
https://sparkylinux.org/wiki/doku.php/start
Yad features heavily.

4. Quite a lot of ppa's that you can enable. Wine, steam, play on linux etc. Sid sources for testing. The ppas are not Ubuntu based. Myself, I don't use them much, and I comment out the debmultimedia source as soon as possible.

Downside, unable to post problems in #debian #debian-next , etc. irc or forum. I have a few times, but it was where I had the same problem on a Sparky and a Debian machine.

More revealed in the wiki.

peace out.

Title: Re: What are the main differences between Sparky stable and Debian Stable+Backports
Post by: giulinideon on January 14, 2019, 08:01:06 PM

Thank you for your answer, helped a lot.

About the Sparky Rolling Release, do sparky linux team test/fix something in the packages before it became available in the repositories ?
After a debian release, testing repositories became a little bit unstable due to the number of packages from sid. How sparky linux handle this instability ?

Thank you.

Title: Re: What are the main differences between Sparky stable and Debian Stable+Backports
Post by: giulinideon on January 15, 2019, 01:54:33 AM

This thread, to a certain extent, answered my question:

https://sparkylinux.org/forum/index.php/topic,3088.msg6641.htm

Thanks.

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