Tuesday, August 4, 2015

SparkyLinux 4.0

SparkyLinux 4.0

Wars have been fought over what is the best Debian-based distribution, but Shashank Sharma is convinced that this ready-to-use OS is a contender

Apart from being one of the first Linux distributions (distros), Debian also has the distinction of fathering, or inspiring a large number of other distros. Several of these descendants, such as Ubuntu and Linux Mint have since gone on to achieve fatherhood in their own right. Despite the choice of different repositories (repos) as their base,most projects prefer Debian Stable as the foundation for their distro. But the Stable repos features thoroughly tested, albeit older, software which makes it ill-suited for distros that wish to serve only the latest of everything to their users. SparkyLinux is one such distro and it uses the Debian Testing repository as its starting place.
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