SparkyLinux is a lightweight distro based on Debian, but it offers some choices that few if any others do.
This year's first new version of SparkyLinux has two development streams: a rolling-release version 8, based on Debian "Trixie," release 2024.01 of which just landed. There's also a stable-release version: SparkyLinux 7 is based on Debian 12 "Bookworm," and version 7.2 came out last month.
The original Unix desktop developed about 20 years ago, the Common Desktop Environment or CDE, became open source back in 2012, is also one of the desktop options on SparkyLinux. Back in Linux's youth, there was an $80 commercial version of CDE for Red Hat Linux 4.
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SparkyLinux harbors a flamboyant array of desktops
Both stable and rolling releases, Pi versions, and some very unusual customizations
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