![]() ![]() Debian's software collection is vast, and Debian itself offers little help navigating it. ![]() It comes with a wide range of tools for managing your system, such as making your own bootable ISOs, plus curated collections of Linux apps, codecs, gaming tools, and more. It also has both command-line and friendly graphical frontends to the normal Debian package manager, called APTus. The desktop choices aren't all there is to SparkyLinux. There are also metapackages and scripts to drive it from the shell Perhaps even the new Go-based FyneDesk.ĪPTus is a sort of app store for Debian packages. There are other exotica out there that deserve to be seen, such as the SGI Irix-like Maxx Interative Desktop, or the NeXTSTEP-style GNUstep Desktop Environment. ![]() We'd like to see Sparky discard the offerings that are already in dozens of other distros, and really lean into this angle. As we've said before, we feel that the Linux desktop world badly needs more diversity of design. It's wonderful to see such a profusion of choices. It's a little rudimentary, and there were some display glitches, but perhaps now that it's available in a modern distro, it will get a lick of paint. More recently, developer Morgan Aldridge got permission from Hasegawa to continue work, and now Mlvwm runs on 21st century Linux. The Macintosh-Like Virtual Window Manager resembles Classic MacOS, because Takeshi Hasegawa's original version dates back to 1998 so predates the existence of Mac OS X. If that wasn't enough, just last month Sparky added Mlvwm to its list. KDE 6 hits RC-1 while KDE 5 brings fresh spin on OpenBSD.Could immutability be a Leap too far for openSUSE users?. ![]()
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