Hallo,

when I try to boot Linux Lite from USB, the process gets stuck at GRUB, showing “GRUB loading” “Welcome to GRUB” and a blinking cursor. 

Here is some more information:
- USB: tried with 2 types: 16 GB USB 3.0 or 64 GB USB 3.2
- Linux Lite Version: tried with 7.8, 7.6 and 6.6 versions, sha256 sum always verified ok
- USB ISO burner: tried with Rufus 4.12 and 4.11 (trying ISO and DD image), Etcher 2.1.4 and Ventoy 1.1.10 on Windows 11
- PC: tried on two old notebooks:
  - HP Pavillon dv6-6b07ez: 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5-2430M, 8 GB DDR3 Memory, AMD Radeon HD 6490M video graphics, Intel 6 Series/C200 Chipset, BIOS Insyde Version F.1C, no UEFI, no Secure Boot
  - Compaq Presario CQ61: 2.1 GHz Intel Core 2 T6500, 4 GB Memory, Mobile Intel 4 Series Chipset Family, Default System BIOS, no UEFI, no Secure Boot.

BTW: On the HP Pavillon I could boot and install Linux Mint 22.2 Xfce without problems. So, I’m really wondering why GRUB doesn’t work in the Linux Lite distro?

Thank you very much in advance for any hint!
Best regards.
Marco

I am trying to connect the Yamaha music keyboard PSR-e473 as a MIDI controller keyboard in Linux Lite OS. 

However, it is not showing and is undetected by my PC running LinuxLiteOS 7.8

I had checked the cable; it is working perfectly with other devices, and the keyboard is recognized by the other device as a MIDI controller. 

It will be great if any one of you can guide or share reference documentation for further troubleshooting. 

Kind Regards,

i have started geting notification that i have 100+ updates lined up but when i go install it it tells me its up to date. Is it just visual bug or am i missing updates ?

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Wow. Have not typed on a forum styled like this in a very long time.

7.8 Runs Great. Used it on a 2 Month Old Hasee X5 
& I'm using it on my Favorite ride or die HP 15 r029wm Rev: 2213-100

Could use a good first guy crash course. [edit: Oh hey, see that Wiki link right on the Desktop? Booyahh]
MicroSlop CoSlop+ is lame.

Not getting locked out of a laptop all because I am in a car ever again. Linux, I've missed ya, bud. 

I Mostly do the live boot thing, but when I get things setup how I want, I'll do Linny Bo Binny Proper. Thank you for your patience as I transend from Linux N0000b to Linux Novice.

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(01-31-2026, 07:47 AM)valtam Wrote: Release Announcement

Linux Lite 7.8 Final is now available for download.

Release Announcement

Linux Lite 7.8 Final is now available for download.

See below for more details.




Changes:

Linux Lite 7.8 comes with 12 completely new re-writes of 12 of our applications as we move towards changing the majority of our applications to Python and GTK4 in Series 8.

These include:

- Lite Auto Login
- Lite Desktop
- Lite DPI
- Lite Firewall
- Lite Network Shares
- Lite Software
- Lite Sounds
- Lite Sources
- Lite System Report
- Lite Theme Manager
- Lite Updates
- Lite User Manager
- Lite Welcome

We're most excited about the new Lite Software. We've added more than 20 popular applications. BleachBit, Darktable, KDE Connect, Kdenlive and Stacer to name a few.





























System Monitoring Center

We've updated the System tab in System Monitoring Center to include more system information. This will be included in the Final. If you'd like to get your hands on it now, just run Install Updates.




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How do I know if my Windows PC has UEFI?

In Windows Search, type msinfo or msinfo32 and launch the desktop app named System Information. Look for the BIOS Mode item, and if the value for it is UEFI, then you have the UEFI firmware. If it says BIOS Mode Legacy, then that’s the firmware you’re running.

Secure Boot is supported, but unless you know exactly how to handle it, it is a P.I.T.A. at best so I am going to say...you must disable Secure Boot to enable stress free computing.

Some helpful snippets from the latest Help Manual:





UEFI Support link - https://mityer.khdlhfjijfrupr.tk/forums/uefi-secure-boot/

Details:

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Downloads:

Release Name: Linux Lite 7.8 Final
Size: 2.8Gb (DVD, USB)

Download Linux Lite 7.8 Final from one of the mirrors: (some may still be syncing)

HTTP & HTTPS:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-lite/files/7.8/

Brazil - http://sft.if.usp.br/linuxlite/isos/
China - https://mirrors.sjtug.sjtu.edu.cn/linuxliteos/isos/
Ecuador - http://mirror.ueb.edu.ec/linuxliteos/isos/
Ecuador - https://mirror.cedia.org.ec/linuxliteos/isos//
Germany - http://mirror.alpix.eu/linuxliteos/isos/
Germany - https://mirror.alpix.eu/linuxliteos/isos/
Greece - http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/linux/linuxlite/isos/
Greece - https://fosszone.csd.auth.gr/linuxlite/isos/
Hong Kong - http://mirror-hk.koddos.net/linuxlite/isos/
Hong Kong - https://mirror-hk.koddos.net/linuxlite/isos/
Indonesia - https://pinguin.dinus.ac.id/iso/lite/isos/
Netherlands - https://mirror.koddos.net/linuxlite/isos/
New Caledonia - http://mirror.lagoon.nc/linuxlite/linuxlite/isos/
Singapore - https://mirror.freedif.org/LinuxLiteOS/isos/
Sweden - http://ftpmirror1.infania.net/linuxlite/isos/
Sweden - https://mirror.accum.se/mirror/linuxliteos.com/isos/
United Kingdom - https://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/repo...lite/isos/
United Kingdom - https://mirror.vinehost.net/linuxlite/isos/
USA - http://mirror.clarkson.edu/linux-lite/isos/
Vietnam - https://mirror.meowsmp.net/linuxlite/isos/

Checking the MD5SUM of the Linux Lite ISO:

Open a Terminal on Linux Lite and do:

Hi everyone,
I’ve been using Linux Lite for about two years now on a variety of older machines. I absolutely love how it breathes life into hardware that Windows has long since abandoned. Recently, I decided to take an old mid-tower desktop that was sitting in my closet and turn it into a dedicated, low-power storage node for my home network. Since Linux Lite is so lightweight, it seemed like the perfect OS to keep resources focused on data throughput rather than desktop fluff.
However, I’ve run into a bit of a technical "rabbit hole" that I’m hoping someone here might have navigated before. To get the storage capacity I need, I’ve installed a dedicated HBA (Host Bus Adapter) card along with a PCI-E expander card. My goal was to bypass the limited onboard SATA ports and run a larger array of mechanical drives for a redundant backup system.
The specific point that's tripping me up is how the current kernel in Linux Lite 6.x is negotiating the handshake with the PCI-E expander. When I boot up, the HBA itself is recognized immediately in the terminal via lspci, but the drives connected through the expander card are acting very sporadically. Sometimes they show up in GParted, and other times they just don’t initialize at all during the mount process. I've read in some older documentation that certain power-management features in the kernel can sometimes conflict with "enterprise-grade" controllers when they're used in consumer-grade motherboards.
I’ve always been a bit of a "janky tech" enthusiast—there’s a certain satisfaction in making high-end server gear work in a repurposed office PC—but this one has me stumped. I’ve already tried disabling the "Link Power Management" in the BIOS, thinking it was a power-state issue, but the inconsistency remains. It’s frustrating because when it does work, the speeds are fantastic, but I can't rely on a storage box that might lose half its drives after a simple reboot.
I’m curious if anyone else in the community has experimented with HBA controllers or PCI-E expansion hardware on Lite. Do you think I should be looking into a specific kernel header or perhaps a manual tweak to the GRUB parameters to ensure these cards initialize properly every time?
Has anyone noticed if newer versions of Linux Lite have changed the way they handle high-latency PCI-E handshakes compared to the older 5.x releases?

Hello All,

I have installed Linux Lite 4.8 on an HP 350 G2.  Everything seems to work fine except for waking from the suspended state.
I have set the computer to blank the screen after 5 minutes of inactivity and suspend after 30 minutes on both power and battery.
The screen goes blank as it should after 5 minutes, then after 30 minutes it suspends and the power light starts flashing.
If I now try to wake it up by touching the mouse pad, what happens is that the power light stops flashing, but the screen stays dark.  I have to touch the mouse pad again to make the screen turn on.

So I have to touch the mouse twice to wake it up every time.

This may seem like a small thing, but it is still annoying.  I would like the computer to wake from sleep and turn the screen back on with a single touch of the mouse.

Can anyone please suggest a fix, or at least a way of finding out why the screen doesn't turn on when the mouse is first touched?

I have already tried to fix it by putting:
ExecStart=/usr/bin/bash -c "xrandr -d :0 --output eDP-1 --auto"
in a systemd service file "After=suspend.target", which seemed like a good idea, but soon discovered that the command was not being executed on wake after suspend.

UPDATE
I have now discovered that if I put startx in the systemd service file, the screen turns on after suspend unconditionally.  So it's fixed!  The only problem is that startx fails with a lot of error messages in syslog, so this isn't a very satisfactory solution.

(The command wasn't being executed before because the bash path was wrong, it should be /bin/bash.)

Hello folks
Can you please help me? I cannot update my installation as below:


===========================
Install Updates Error Log
===========================

Install Updates could not fetch the package cache information lists.
Go to https://mityer.khdlhfjijfrupr.tk/forums/ and paste the log below into
a new or existing thread for assistance.

============ Log ===========

Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security InRelease
Hit:3 https://linux.teamviewer.com/deb stable InRelease
Hit:4 https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Hit:5 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/mozillateam/ppa/ubuntu noble InRelease
Hit:6 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/mozilla...ext/ubuntu noble InRelease
Err:2 https://linuxlite.3load.com galena InRelease
  403  Forbidden [IP: 2606:4700:3037::ac43:d205 443]
Hit:7 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble InRelease
Hit:8 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates InRelease
Hit:9 https://packages.mozilla.org/apt mozilla InRelease
Hit:10 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports InRelease
Hit:11 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security InRelease
Reading package lists...
E: Failed to fetch http://linuxlite.3load.com/dists/galena/InRelease  403  Forbidden [IP: 2606:4700:3037::ac43:d205 443]
E: The repository 'http://linuxlite.3load.com galena InRelease' is not signed.
W: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/mozilla.../InRelease: Signature by key 0AB215679C571D1C8325275B9BDB3D89CE49EC21 uses weak algorithm (rsa1024)
W: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/mozilla.../InRelease: Signature by key 0AB215679C571D1C8325275B9BDB3D89CE49EC21 uses weak algorithm (rsa1024?

Hello virtual machine

Operating system: Windows 11 Pro, 64-bit (Build 22631.3007)
Virtual program: VMware® Workstation Pro 25H2 25.0.0.24995812

See video - i create virlual machine for testing LinuxLite 7.6 - after input username, login-password for user - stopped

Please, help me - why LinuxLite 7.6 stopped after input username, login-password for user in VMware® Workstation Pro 25H2 25.0.0.24995812

Log - see in attach

Video setup LinuxLite 7.6 in VMware® Workstation Pro 25H2 25.0.0.24995812 - see video on link https://disk.yandex.com/i/Cf3G7NwiIzSflA

LinuxLite 7.2 in VMware® Workstation Pro 25H2 25.0.0.24995812 - setup, work perfectly

I find topic https://mityer.khdlhfjijfrupr.tk/forums/showt...635&page=3

Solution - in virtualbox, change video display to vboxsvga.

In VMware® Workstation Pro 25H2 25.0.0.24995812 do not change VideoDriver to vboxsvga

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