SparkyLinux 2021.03

Its rather unimpressive-looking screenshots intrigued Mayank Sharma, who wants to find how this distro has survived for as long as it has.

- Mayank Sharma

IN BRIEF

A Debian-based family of distros that produces releases based on Debian’s stable and testing Debian branches. The project puts out several ISO, each with a different desktop environment to cater to all kinds of machines. SparkyLinux is notable for its custom tools.

SPECS

Minimum

CPU: Pentium 4 and above

Memory: 1GB

Hard disk space: 10GB

Build: Supports both 32- and 64-bit machines

SparkyLinux is one of a handful of decent distros that’s managed to survive for over a decade now by building a loyal and sizable community of users around it. The project’s handful of developers produce distros based on Debian’s Stable and Testing branches. The releases based on Debian Stable have 32-bit ISOs as well, which makes them ideal for older hardware.

This is the latest release of the distro based on Debian Unstable. These are rolling releases that can be updated perpetually, but the project still puts out ISOs with a refreshed set of packages to make it easier for new users to get into SparkyLinux.