THIS post, (yes this one) is my 1000th post!  To commemorate it, I am increasing my donation total to $1000.00 USD. 

Now I'm off to plan what to do when my reputation score hits 1000.

Terminal : Free readout
inuxlite@linuxlite-HP-Compaq-dc7700p-Ultra-slim-Desktop:~$
linuxlite@linuxlite-HP-Compaq-dc7700p-Ultra-slim-Desktop:~$ free
            total      used      free    shared    buffers    cached
Mem:      3094220    1245376    1848844      48432      96776    845920
-/+ buffers/cache:    302680    2791540
Swap:      3135484          0    3135484
linuxlite@linuxlite-HP-Compaq-dc7700p-Ultra-slim-Desktop:~$

Running LL2.8 32bit 3 GB RAM  (3 x 1 GB)  Standard config;  LAN connected.  Intel Dual core 6300 CPU  1.86 GHz

CPU capable of 64 bit - Maximum RAM  ( Bios) 3 x 2GB.  Video card  shares existing memory

Standard office use - Not gamer.  Some video viewing.  SKYPE

QUESTION

With Ubuntu threatening 32 bit demise what are my most cost effective options?
a) changing to 64 bit , utilising existing RAM -  will I run into  low memory availability issues.
b) Bite the bullet and buy 3 x 2gb sticks RAM (Ebay)

Option b) is virtually the same cost as the residual value of the HP DC7700p 

TIA.

My wife has migrated from a Chromebook, and liked the feature they had of the function keys having by default the functions such as volume up and down, screen contrast up and down, etc. rather than having to hit the Fn key at the bottom of the keyboard, hold it down, and then hit the F5 or F6 key.

Is there some way of making Linux Lite automatically add the Fn key by default when you hit F1 through F12?

The top 2 picks from the community will go into 3.4 Final.
Please pick your 2 favorite wallpapers.
Poll expires 16th March.

Thank you.

Mosque:



Fireworks:



Waterfalls:



Cave:



Gaming - Steam Logo:



Orion Nebula:

Hello All,

I've just done an install from a Systemback image of my LL-2.8 system on the same hardware it was created on.
For some reason now when I plug in any external USB drive or mount an internal drive they open with Geany  :o
I'm guessing it's probably something simple that's been messed up by Systemback, but I have no idea what or even what to look for to fix it.

If I Open as Administrator from the Desktop or any folder, then navigate to the drives I can view all the files on the drives, copy, paste, delete etc..
I've chown-ed them to my user which did change ownership but I still can't access them from my user account, every time I try Geany opens with the drive's UUID or label as it's title.
Cannot change the permissions of any internal partitions, it appears to do so but they remain as root ownership.

Used Systemback a few times now without issues, on both EXT4 & BTRFS filesystems, this time it's BTRFS for sda1 & sda3, swap is sda2.

Never seen anything like this before and have no idea where to even start searching for a solution, hopefully without having to start from scratch with a clean install.
Was wondering if anyone's seen something like this or perhaps knows of a fix?

Thanks


EDIT: the rest of the install seems to work fine so far, programs work as expected, settings all kept etc. etc..

Hi to All,
I installed the Linux lite 3.2., and then I installed Skype, version 4.3.0.37-0ubunt0.12.04.1, from "Lite software".
After that, i tried to run Skype, by clicking on the icon of Skype, I waited for six to seven minutes. There was not been any signs of connecting on Skype.
It happened same with Team Viewer. 

Does anyone know what a problem is?

Hello everybody,

I couldn't find an answer on the forums or elsewhere. The power went out about a week ago while I was updating. Since then, the Lite Desktop Widget seems to be  confused. It now says "99 days since your last update", though I've just updated and the system confirms that. Repeatedly disabling, loging out and in or restarting the computer and then enabling the widget again doesn't help either.  Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

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The matter is solved with the latest update.

Can anyone tell me what the LIVE boot user name and password is?

I boot up the LinuxLite disk and ran it for a while. Ended up closing the screen to hit the hay
for the night and this morning when I went to open the lid, it prompted me with user name
and pass. I tried several things that other distros use, but no go.

Any help with this will be appreciated!

Hi
My LL has crashed.
I recently updated the software which went without a hitch.  I was prompted to do a restart which I immediately did... now the computer won’t boot.  It starts and gets as far as the screen with the feather, then the screen goes blank and the keyboard LEDs (caps lock etc) flash on-off every second(ish).
I started it in recovery mode (left shift key) and under “Advanced Options for Description” I successfully booted it in 4.4.0-62.  The most recent version i.e. the one that crashes is 4.4.0-64.
So it looks like something went wrong with the last update, is there a way to roll back to 4.4.0-62 and retry the latest update?
Thanks.

Release Announcement

Linux Lite 3.4 Beta is now available for testing. There have been a number of changes since the 3.2 release. See below for all the changes.
Linux Lite 3.4 Final will be released on April 1st, 2017.



Lite Updates Notify - A new application for Linux Lite. Lite Updates Notify is a desktop notification that informs the user of all available updates. Menu, Favorites, Install Updates should be run before executing Lite Updates Notify for the first time. A HUGE thank you to Ralphy for his collaboration on this challenging application.

1. Menu, Settings, Lite Updates Notify.



2. Select a notification frequency.



3. When you receive your desktop notification, you will get either of two messages:





This is a notification only. Go to Menu, Favorites, Install Updates if the notification says you have updates to install. This is an optional application, you do not have to use it if you don't want to and it is disabled by default.

16.04.2 Base - Linux Lite 3.4 is based off 16.04.2, however, we do not include the 4.8 kernel Hardware Enablement Stack. The HWE stacks were never meant to be supported for the entire life of the LTS release. In the past, support has been limited between HWE releases. I prefer to offer people the option to switch to one of our custom kernels should you require newer hardware support, not forcefully impose a newer kernel where it is not necessary or where it may drop support for older hardware.

Lite Welcome - Has been improved by recommending people follow a basic 3 step post-install process. Install Updates > Install Drivers > Setting a Restore Point.





Window snapping by default - Dragging windows to the corners and snapping windows which is a feature familiar to Windows users, is now available in Linux Lite 3.4 Thank you to torreydale for this suggestion.

Joystick support - New in Linux Lite, better support for joysticks.

Changelog:

Kernel 4.4.0-65 (custom kernels also available via our Repository for versions 3.13 - 4.10)
Firefox 51.0.1
Thunderbird 45.7.0
LibreOffice 5.1.6.2
VLC - 2.2.2
Gimp 2.8.20
Base: 16.04.2

There is no upgrade to or from Beta releases. Beta releases are for testing only and it is not recommended to run them as your main or secondary operating system.

Developer credits for this release - Jerry Bezencon, Ralphy

Downloads:
HTTP:
Download 32bit from here - Linux Lite 3.4 Beta 32bit
md5sum: 75eae1bba1caaf85b72fb14e1030c4ad
Size: 1002mb (DVD, USB)

Download 64bit from here - Linux Lite 3.4 Beta 64bit
md5sum: 4bade47d0116de4ff6330425c811ed33
Size: 990mb (DVD, USB)

TORRENTS:
32bit Torrent from here - linux-lite-3.4-beta-32bit.iso.torrent
Hash: 8802035b9f65f677b29b340218006058018cf10a
Size: 1002mb (DVD, USB)

64bit Torrent from here - linux-lite-3.4-beta-64bit.iso.torrent
Hash: eb306daa9f490ada8c5729e59f3634a372c934a7
Size: 990mb (DVD, USB)

Live USB/DVD/VirtualBox/Vmware:

Login is automatic, no credentials are required. The image can be written to a 2gb or larger USB stick, or a writable DVD. Alternatively, you can use the dd command: sudo dd if=linux-lite-3.4-beta-xxbit.iso of=/dev/sdx bs=4M where 'x' is the letter of your usb stick. In linux to find out the letter of your usb stick, open a terminal and type: df -h It is usually listed as 'media' or similar. Please see the built in Help Manual if you require a more detailed explanation of this procedure.

All Ubuntu 32bit kernels these days ship with PAE.

Minimum Recommended Specs:
700MHz processor
512mb ram
VGA screen capable of 1024x768 resolution
DVD drive or USB port for the ISO image

Preferred Specs:
1.5GHz processor+
1024mb ram+
VGA, DVI or HDMI screen capable of 1366x768 resolution+
DVD drive or USB port for the ISO image

Login to the live desktop is automatic.

The first thing you MUST do after a fresh install of Linux Lite is run Menu, Favorites, Install Updates.

As this is a beta release, there are bound to be bugs etc. Please help make the final stable for other people by participating in this Beta. Please report any bugs and feedback in this thread.


Thank you
Jerry and the team.