SparkyLinux 4.0 “GameOver”

SparkyLinux 4.0 “GameOver”
SparkyLinux 4.0 “GameOver” is out.
It has been built on the top of SparkyLinux 4.0 “Tyche” and it’s fully compatible with Debian testing “Stretch”.
“GameOver” is a special edition of Sparky targeted to gamers.
The most important changes inside the GameOver 4.0:
– Linux kernel 4.0.5
– all packages upgraded from Debian testing repositories as of 2015/07/09
– lxde-common 0.99.0-2
– openbox 3.6.0-2
– PCManFM 1.2.3-1.1
– Iceweasel 38.1.0esr-2
– vlc 2.2.1-dmo6
– steam & steam-launcher 1.0.0.50
– desura for linux
– wine & playonlinux
– Sparky-IA – quick access to very old games
– grub 2.02~beta2-26
– added support of the system installation on 32 bit machines with UEFI motherboard
– system rebranding
– theme “Sparky4” and icons set “Ultra-Flat-Icons”
– Gnome-Alsa Mixer replaced by Pulse Audio Mixer
New applications:
– Sparky Internet Archive (sparky-ia) – lets you launch and play online very old games stored at Internet Archive via the default web browser. The application lets you choose one of the 3 game categories:
– Classic PC Games
– Internet Arcade
– MS-DOS Games
A set of emulators of old machines and systems available via the package manager and Sparky APTus Gamer: 

AdvenceMENU, 

Atari800, 

DeSmuME, 

Desura Installer, 

DOSBox, 

DOSEMU, 

ePSXe, 

FCEUX, 

FS-UAE, 

GNOME Video 

Arcade, 

Hatari, 

Higan, 

Hega Fusion, 

MAME, 

Mednafen, 

MESS, 

Nestopia, 

PCSX, 

PlayOnLinux, 

PPSSPP, 

Steam, 

Stella, 

VisualBoyAdvance, 

Virtual Jaguar, 

Wine, 

Winetricks, 

Yabause,

 ZSNES

A set of preinstalled games: 

0ad, 

3dchess, 

airstrike, 

alienblaster, 

amphetamine, 

antigravitaattori,

armagetronad, 

asciijump, 

asylum, 

atomix, 

balder2d, 

barrage, 

berusky, 

billard-gl, 

biniax2, 

black-box, 

blobby, 

bloaboats, 

blockout2, 

brainparty, 

bygfoot, 

chromium-bsu, 

einstein, 

extremetuxracer, 

five-or-more, 

flare, 

four-in-a-row, 

freecraft, 

freedroid, 

frozen-bubble, 

funnyboat, 

gnome-chess, 

gnome-hearts, 

gnome-klotski, 

gnome-mahjongg, 

gnome-mastermind, 

gnome-mines, 

gnome-nibbles, 

gnome-robots, 

gnome-sudoku, 

gnome-tetravex, 

gnubik, 

gnuchess, 

gnugo, 

gtkatlantic, 

gtkpool, 

gunroar, 

holdingnuts, 

iango, 

lbreakout2, 

lightsoff, 

liquidwar, 

ltris, 

maelstorm, 

megaglest, 

minetest, 

mokomaze, 

monopd, 

monsterz, 

moon-buggy, 

moon-lander,

 netmaze, 

netpanzer, 

openarena, 

pacman, 

performous, 

quadrapassel, 

slimevolley, 

smc, 

snake4, 

snowballz, 

supertux, 

swell-foop, 

tali, 

teeworlds, 

tennix, 

tetzle, 

tomatoes, 

transcend, 

warzone2100, 

wesnoth, 

widelands, 

xblast, 

xmoto, 

zaz

Live system user is: live
Password: live
Root password is blank (empty).
Minimum system requirements for SparkyLinux “GameOver”:
– CPU i586 / amd64
– 256 MB of RAM memory (some games need more than that – 500-1000MB recommended)
– an optical DVD drive or 4GB USB stick for Live medium
– 20 GB of space for installation on a hard drive (30GB recommended)
– 16 GB of Flash/Pen USB drive for “normal” installation (32GB recommended)

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