Sparky Linux

Debian based Sparky Linux stand up to all the challenges from minimal to games.

I  downloaded and tested Mate which is less than 2GB but mounted on a 4GB USB.

It is sleek and boots briskly unlike Ubuntu or Mint.

Mate desktop avoids clutter similar to original Debian.

It is strange it has only a few entries on YouTube.

Guys in sparky are like stars that shine and do not boast or bloat.

I have no hesitation of recommending it

I make boot CDs using Debian and it does a clean job using about 4MB UFI partition for booting which is the smallest UFI, I have come across.

Rest of the free space is reserved and Gparted cannot claim the free space.

The system is in a different file system and the free space, I think is a FAT partition.

By the way, I installed Mint on butter file system (btrs) and it did a good job formatting the 120 GB left in my terrabyte old rotating disk.

Took a long time and GRUB detected all the other distributions, including Mageia.

The beauty was I had a lantern like speaker with a sprouting water chamber and multi coloured diode lights, which  I could not get to light up (even Ubuntu was not helpful) at booting time and get the audio sounds perfectly (did not use it for 4 full years) playing for my satisfaction.

Mint recharged it perfectly.

Voice recording was perfect.

My black old computer is like a Wesak Lantern for me to see it in the night (with lot of cooling fans).

Mint  got the colour arrangement of diodes also into fine tuning and a nice rhythm.

Thank you Mint.

Regarding the Sparky Linux I am going to download both games and media distribution for testing.
If one does not like Debian Sparky Linux is very good alternative.

I am sorry to realize Aptosid which was a Sidusx derivative has been discontinued from 2013 almost over a decade.

It has all the features of Memphis another Debian derivative I really liked my early days when dual booting with Windows 98:and I was struggling with 4MB RAM fortunately not with 42 Floppy Disks of Windows 95.
I had only 6 or 7 Debian 6 version.
1.;Install Windows.
2.install Partition Magic.
3.  Use partition magic to prepare Ex4 and brtrs file systems.
4. Boot Debian 6.
5. Use open office instead of Microsoft Words.
6. Migrated to open office in Debian.
7. Started using Debian derivative Mephis.
8. I was playing with SuSe Linux,  Redhat and Caldera Linux.
I have lot of books on Redhat and one book
on SuSe (Bible Book series).
Sadly no books on Debian but a man page which I hated. 
9.:I started writing books on Linux especially how to partition a 80GB hard disk and boot multiple Linux distributions.
10. Coming to Mephis which is early KDE desktop which was neat and clean.
It's ash coloured graphical instalation menu was well organized
Welcome screen when clicked.
Then I think an internal duction.
Then GRUB menu.
Then User and root registration.
Internet configuration which I use to skip (no ethernet in Ceylon then).
Using partition already prepared by Partition Magic for root, boot and home (no vat or user or tmp partitions then in my vocabulary.
Installation and run Linux instead of Windows at boot time.
Aptosid had all what I described above but I only ran Aptosid live.