SparkyLinux 7.8 VM Images Released for VirtualBox and VMware

SparkyLinux project released ‘SparkyLinux 7.8 Orion Belt’ based on Debian 12 “Bookworm” branch: “The 8th update of Sparky 7 – 7.8 is out. It is a quarterly updated point release of Sparky 7 “Orion Belt” of the stable line. Sparky 7 is based on and fully compatible with Debian 12 ‘Bookworm’. Changes: all packages updated from Debian and Sparky stable repos; Linux kernel PC: 6.1.140-LTS (6.15.6, 6.12.38-LTS, 6.6.98-LTS in sparky repos); LibreOffice 7.4.7 (25.2.3 in Debian backports repos); KDE Plasma 5.27.5; LXQt 1.2.0; MATE 1.26; Xfce 4.18; Openbox 3.6.1; Firefox 128.12.0esr (140.0.4 in sparky repos); Thunderbird 128.12.0esr; fixed problem with conflicted libs installed previously from debian-multimedia repos; it blocked installation of some packages, such as Gimp; to fix it manually, uninstall libavutil57 (v10:5.1.3) and its deps, and install it back (v7:5.1.6); anyway, Gimp is preinstalled now in live media; ARM images are not updated, you can still use version 7.7…” You can checkout complete release announcement here.

We are providing you Virtual Machine images for latest version of the SparkyLinux 7.8 Orion Belt for VirtualBox and VMware.

You can download VDI and VMDK images for VirtualBox & VMware from here.