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SparkyLinux 2025.12 “Tiamat” Released with Debian Forky Base, Linux Kernel 6.17

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9to5linux.com; By Marcus Nestor
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SparkyLinux 2025.12 (codename Tiamat) has been released today as another snapshot in the semi-rolling series of this Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution leveraging the Debian Testing repositories.

Based on the Debian Testing/Forky repositories as of December 14th, 2025, SparkyLinux 2025.12 ships with Linux 6.17.11 as the default kernel offering, as well as support for the recently released Linux 6.18 kernel series, which can be installed from the SparkyLinux software repositories, along with LTS kernels like Linux 6.12 and 6.6.

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